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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: milto on May 28, 2021, 09:12:01 AM

Title: Blade sharpening
Post by: milto on May 28, 2021, 09:12:01 AM
Anybody have any recommendations for a mail order sharpening service that they have had good luck with. Thanks
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: Magicman on May 28, 2021, 09:16:31 AM
Wood-Mizer Resharp has been resharpening for me for 19½ years.  Absolutely no complaints.
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: milto on May 28, 2021, 09:35:45 AM
Will they work on a blade from a HM126?
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: Magicman on May 28, 2021, 09:44:33 AM
That question would need to be directed to them:  800-244-4600
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: milto on May 28, 2021, 10:45:43 AM
Thank you for your helpful info.
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: barbender on May 28, 2021, 01:23:00 PM
Only if it is a Woodmizer blade. If I was you, I'd probably by some WM blades for your mill, so that I could use their resharp service. 
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: milto on May 28, 2021, 04:49:58 PM
Thanks, did not know Woodland had a re sharp service. Have a 10 pack coming with the mill, hope there turnaround is better then the time it takes to receive the mill. again Thanks.
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: Magicman on May 28, 2021, 05:30:24 PM
You may not have read Reply #5 as barbended intended.  He used WM for Wood-Mizer, not Woodland Mills.  Woodland Mills does sell a resharpener as described on page 25 of their catalog:  LINK (https://online.flowpaper.com/7a0a076e/WMProductCatalogueDesignv7/#page=24)

Yes, if you use Wood-Mizer blades, Wood-Mizer Resharp will resharpen them.
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: milto on May 28, 2021, 07:38:53 PM
Thanks got it straight now, so much to learn.
Title: Re: Blade sharpening
Post by: farmfromkansas on May 29, 2021, 01:23:13 PM
I used to ship my blades to Cooks, and the shipping was as much as the sharpening.  Thought about buying my own sharpener, and then had the bright idea to call Cooks to see if there was a cats claw sharpener near me.  They gave me a guy's name and number from McPherson, I called and went down and the guy sharpened my blades while I hung out with him. He had a super sharp cam, so it just turned all my blades into 8 degree super sharps. They cut fine.