Blade Sharpening

[DUD]

I use a 10" Ryobi miter saw most of the time, last week I was working on a new mantel

for My Sisters gas log fireplace. The blade was burning the wood badly. I took it

off and carried it to the only, that I know of, sharpening service here. The said it would be

a week before it was ready. I bought a used one, resharpened, for $15.00, and it had

more teeth than mine, They then resharpened My old one and I picked it up

today for $6.60, I thought that was cheap. Does anyone else get blades resharpened

and at what cost? Bill

[Tom Slick]

I get them resharpened, it is $10-15 depending on how many teeth and if any are damaged. What was the tooth count on the blade you had resharpened?
For a hobbiest it doesn't make much difference but one of the reasons for buying expensive blades is the number of sharpenings you get out of the carbide.

[DUD]

The one I had resharpened was a 40 count, carbide tip, with all the tips. The

one I bought was a 60 tooth, great blade. Bill

[LCHIEN]

the going rate I have seen for carbide tipped saw blades is $0.33 per tooth,
so a 60-tooth blade will cost about $20.

IIRC cost for replacing chipped or broken teeth is like $3-4 per tooth

[SARGE..g-47]

I've been getting them re-sharpened for years, Bill. The price you got for a 40 T is excellent. I pay $7.50 for my 20 and 24 T rip blades.. around $11.50 for 40 T and I believe $16.50 for a 12" 72 T SCMS blade. I also get HSS jointer knives and 20" planer blades re-sharpened also.

Turn around time for my guy is from 2-4 days depending on how busy as he has a mobile service for cabinet shops where he picks up. I am only 4 miles away so I just drop em off and pick em up to get out of the shop for a little while.

[crokett]

I have a stack to get resharpened. I don't have anybody close to me. The only place I know of is about a half hour from work.

[cgallery]

What kind of gear are these places using? Is it newer CNC-based stuff, or the manually operated gear.

And is there any difference?

[TV]

Here is my experience.

The first time I ever went to get a blade sharpened (24T Freud), I brought it to a local lumberyard. The kid there put it on the mandrel of some antique machine and then manually turned it and lined each tooth up with a diamond wheel and held it against the wheel for a random amount of time. The grit of the wheel was quite coarse also, you could clearly make out the paths of individual grits. After thinking through the process, I am pretty sure the blade left duller than it arrived... I wasn't impressed.

After some investigation, I found a proper sharpening place and their process is to first clean the blade (a few hours) and then sharpen the blade on a cnc grinder which is programmed specifically for the geometry of that particular blade. I was told that a blade which has been resharpened is often sharper than when new because the grinders they use run at a slower rate than production machines...

TV

[pelligrini]

Do sharpening services clean the blades too?

I've got a couple that need to be sharpened (and cleaned). I wouldn't mind letting someone else do the cleaning.

[DUD]

My blades always come back clean as factory blade, and sharo, They don't charge to

align the teeth, but it is $2.00 to replace. Bill

[herb fellows]

Depends on a number of things, the original quality of the blade being chief amongst them. Anything less than $25 or so, I toss it.

[Uncle Hook]

Here are links to the sharpening price lists for Ridge Carbde and Forrest Blades. Both offer high quality mail order sharpening services.


http://www.ridgecarbidetool.com/shar...4df57378c7816c

http://www.forrestblades.com/sharpprice.htm

[LCHIEN]

I will say this:
I sent a not real 60T expensive blade to be sharpened thru a local hardware store. I know all the stores here use the same service because they all have the same sharpenening services brochure and price list, except with the stores name on it.- One week and $20 later it came back sharp, and coated with the rubber goop. They engraved using one of those eletric vibrating engravers a number on it, not neatly I might add, I suppose to identify it. Then Unfortunately the plate of the was all scratched both sides. I mean it looked like it had been left on the floor of a high school hallway at 3:00 PM on friday - all scuffed and ugly.
Somehow I don't think this should be the way it is.

My next blades sharpened was my WWII and a Freud, I decided to send it to Forrest because I didn't want it to end up looking like crap. They did a beautiful job, although it cost a bit more than the local service and I had to play shipping, I was much more happy with the way it looked. Maybe it cuts the same all beat up but somehow I fell better with a reasonable blade - maybe a little wear on the writing is OK.

Last comment, if you ship a blade make sure you pack it well. I have seen blades in carboard sleeves nearly cut themselves out of the sleeve by the time it arrived- a little movement of the blade in shipping and handling and those teeth will do a job on the cardboard. I try and secure the blade by the center hole to a backing cardboard that's larger than the blade, and then pack it so that the blade can't ever touch the edges.