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New Blade Design for Baker Twin Blade Edger

Started by YellowHammer, April 14, 2019, 08:10:23 AM

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YellowHammer

I still use them although they have been about sharpened down to nubs.  They have a "decent" finish, but since they have the side cutters, it's not as good as a monolithic blade.  Still, much better finish than a sawmill edge. 
YellowHammerisms:

Take steps to save steps.

If it won't roll, its not a log; it's still a tree.  Sawmills cut logs, not trees.

Kiln drying wood: When the cookies are burned, they're burned, and you can't fix them.

Sawing is fun for the first couple million boards.

Be smarter than the sawdust

BlackberryPines

Thanks for the feedback.  Although I could not find that blade on the sharp tool website, I called them and they pulled it right up.  The price was reasonable as well.  Now I get to wait for 8-10 weeks. 
-LT50 Wide, Cat 252, Stihl 461 & 261

busenitzcww

Haha I use a Diehl straight line rip as my edger! It'd be nice to have two blades but we use it a lot for actual sl ripping so it's a decent trade off. 

YellowHammer

We have an SLR as well, but a good edger will put almost as straight a line, but 3 times faster.  On a single blade SLR, a board must be fed, returned, and fed again to get both sides. So 3 passes one board.   

On an edger, it does both sides at once, so one pass per board, and a good belt fed edger like a Baker will grip kiln dried and planed boards and feed straight, just like the tracks on an SLR.

The big disadvantage of an edger are the split blades with side cutters, they will scuff a little on the cut edge.

The big advantage of an edger besides being faster, is the split blades with carbide side cutters will allow edging and breakdown of nasty, cupped and twisted kiln dried wood, like pith cut live edge slabs, that would smoke and bind in an SLR with a monolithic finishing blade.  

An edger fights back on a cranky piece of wood.







YellowHammerisms:

Take steps to save steps.

If it won't roll, its not a log; it's still a tree.  Sawmills cut logs, not trees.

Kiln drying wood: When the cookies are burned, they're burned, and you can't fix them.

Sawing is fun for the first couple million boards.

Be smarter than the sawdust

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