Saw-blade Question for Knotscott...

[SARGE..g-47]

Hey Scott... hope you see this. As you know I have an Infinity General that you sold me after testing it. It's actually an excellent blade with the 20* ATB angle for cress-cut. So.. thanks for that purchase from you.

I just did some small decorative boxes and it gave a rather clean cut on angling the sides of maple on both the carcass and lid. But.. on the angled (around 1 1/4") cross-cut end of the lid it did leave a few marks (the rip was fine) that I had to clean up. I am very satisfied with it but I do intend to do some more small detail work in the future as large carcass pieces have been my forte.

So.. I am considering a 40 T premium blade of even higher quality than the standard General. I have looked at the Ridge 2000 and my first thought was it was the front-runner. But.. after reading a few articles on the newer Infinity Super General.. it appears to be a cleaner cutter than the Ridge? The 30* ATB with double side cut is similiar to the Freud Fusion in design.

My question to you since you have tested most of the premiums is... how much difference did you find between the cut on a Ridge 2000 and the Super General. I looked at a Super G and I will say that the carbide is "loaded" on the teeth meaning many moons of re-sharpening making the $99 on sale at the moment look OK in the long run where the long run does come into play.

Thanks in advance...

[Knottscott]

Hey Sarge! The Super General is very similar to the Fusion, and is the cleanest cutting general purpose blade I've used to date. It crosscuts more cleanly than typical premium GP blades (including the TS2000) and leaves a shiny edge that I can identify just from looking at it. The SG doesn't rip thick stock quite as efficiently as the TS2000 and WWII 40T, but it does fairly well there. It's also a bit more prone to burning but I'm confident you'll be able to avoid that. As GP blades go, it'll be tough to beat the SG IMO, but there some specialty higher toothcount blades that will will eclipse it a little on crosscuts.

I believe Infinity is offering a 10% sale right now, so the SG may even be available for closer to $90.

HTH

[SARGE..g-47]

Thanks for the quick reply as I just came up from the shop. I believe the burn you are referring to might be on the rip cut? If so.. I have the ripping end covered with the detail work as the standard General has the lesser ATB angle and is probably a better suited blade for the ripping IMO than the Super General.

As you might know.. standard ripping is definitely covered at my shop with two 20 T and two 24 T blades. I mainly cross-cut with a 72 T Freud SCMS but tried doing miters on my TS for this project with my cheap Incra V27 with a hickory sacrificial fence face. Cut one side and use a 45* stop block clamped to the sacrificial with the already cut end slid flush to the 45* stop block.

This gave perfect miters and all the pieces are the exact same lenght as you have to have to get a baby butt kiss miter. So... I will be doing miters on the TS at this point as I found it a bit more accurate than my SCMS and using a stop block on a SCMS is a matter of creativity to say the least. And.. I will start doing short cross-cuts on the TS also as that standard General does an excellent job.

As you mentionedl, I'm not too concerned with burn as the saw is dead on and I maintain it that way. And hopefully I have learned a bit about feed rates after 37 years even though it might be questionable if I have learned anything at all in 37 years. Flip a coin...

Thanks again for the info as I kind of had a feel for what you might say on this call. I do believe I will bite the bullet on Monday and give the Infinity boys and girls the call.

Regards...

[Knottscott]

Sounds good Sarge....please give us an update with your impressions once you've given it a spin.

[SARGE..g-47]

Will do Scott. I just read the link you posted where you did the extensive review on that blade. Wish I had known about it before I did the home-work as it would saved a ton of time.

OK though as I am waiting between finish curing and am somewhat bored. But it is all done as I just buffed out and laid wax. I can start something else Monday as I get bored with no WW to do.

So... all is well I suppose. Looking forward to giving it a go....

Regards...