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bandmill blade questions

Started by chainsaw_louie, May 12, 2025, 08:32:21 AM

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fluidpowerpro

I still consider myself a novice when it comes to sharpening and setting so I say this only to solicite feedback from others.
Regarding setting. What i have been doing lately is I set the teeth, trying to get each tooth "close" erroring on the high side. I then run the blade through some rollers i built to bend the tooth back a little.  The goal being that all end up the same. That way I dont have to be too concerned about what I'm setting it to because once I pull it through the rollers, they all end up the same.
I can't claim this is the best way. Only that I can make a dull blade cut good again, so as far as that goes, it seems to work for me.
I know a few others use rollers/de-setters but not sure if they use them the same way.
Looking forward to comments from others.
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customsawyer

One other thing I'd like to point out. It is best if you're cam and push rod is indexing on the tooth to be sharpened. The teeth on these blades are stamped/pressed into the blade. I've heard it does 3 at a time, but I don't know that for sure. However, as that machine is advancing the blade you will get some slight variance from time to time. By having your sharpener indexing on any tooth, other than the one that the stone is coming down the face of, can through things out of whack by a few thousandths from time to time. Remember, the more constancy you can get out of this sharpener/setter the better your blades are going to do.   
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trimguy

fluid, running your blade through after it is sharpened and set seems like it would mess the corner of the tooth up, ( round over, flatten ). I guess your not finding this to be so ?

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