How many times *should* you sharpen a saw blade before it becomes impractical?
I'm still using the original blade on my BT3*, the Ryobi blade designed (built?) by Freud. It's been a decent blade, but then I don't have anything else to compare it to. My WW hobby has stopped and started multiple times over that period - a few major projects here and there, scattered minor projects, and sometimes even several years off. This blade has been sharpened several times over the years, maybe 3 or 4.
Last night I was cutting tenons in black ash and noticed the saw was struggling doing the 1 1/4" deep cuts - even smoking a bit (although strangely the wood diidn't look burned once the cut was complete).
My gut instinct is that it's time for a new blade, but I wouldn't mind sharpening it either. The bummer is that sending it off to be sharpened will take me out of commission for a week (Wednesday to Wednesday) as I don't have a back-up blade. Yet another reason to buy a new one... then in the future I could send that off to be sharpened and fall back on this one temporarily, even if I didn't ever resharpen this one it would at least get me by.
Thoughts?
I'm still using the original blade on my BT3*, the Ryobi blade designed (built?) by Freud. It's been a decent blade, but then I don't have anything else to compare it to. My WW hobby has stopped and started multiple times over that period - a few major projects here and there, scattered minor projects, and sometimes even several years off. This blade has been sharpened several times over the years, maybe 3 or 4.
Last night I was cutting tenons in black ash and noticed the saw was struggling doing the 1 1/4" deep cuts - even smoking a bit (although strangely the wood diidn't look burned once the cut was complete).
My gut instinct is that it's time for a new blade, but I wouldn't mind sharpening it either. The bummer is that sending it off to be sharpened will take me out of commission for a week (Wednesday to Wednesday) as I don't have a back-up blade. Yet another reason to buy a new one... then in the future I could send that off to be sharpened and fall back on this one temporarily, even if I didn't ever resharpen this one it would at least get me by.
Thoughts?
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