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Band Saw Blade Selection :: Band Saw Blades :: Ellis Mfg

These blades are modest in cost and those who have tried them rate them as equivalent of other high quality blades on the market. There is a minimum order of $50 as I remember. You can pay lots more, but short of going to carbide tips, hard to beat these. I like bimetalic bades for uses other than cutting bark on or dirty wood. Bark on and dirty wood can have rocks.

You will need to know your band saw blade length.

Best place for cool blocks depends on which manufacture of saw you are using. Cool Block is a proprietary name -- for a grapnite impregnate pheonolic guide block.
 
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Thanks Ken,
The cool blocks are for a walker-turner I just got through rebuilding.
I put before pics on a thread here and soon as I can get after pics I
will post them in a new thread together Lord willing.
 
If you are doing resawing, the WoodSlicer is available from Highland Woodworking in Atlanta. Thin kerf and for me, they work very well holding a good edge on my 14" Griz with riser block.
Charles
 
The Wood Slicer is amazing. I bought one a few years ago when I needed some Paulownia veneers, and nobody was selling Paulownia veneers. That blade had no trouble slicing off veneer thicknesses (I was sawing 1/16" veneers, but it could have gone thinner).
 
Ellis makes an awsome blade! I trashed my woodslicer...it wouldn't track even after 4 professional woodworkers looks at everything. Worst $$ I ever spent. Our local saw shop makes great blades for $12. Using my Griz 0555 almost everyday, they hold up for months!
 
Not sure, there is a best bandsaw blade for every purpose. Size of bandsaw wheels dictates blade thickness, width, and steel blade you buy. Number of teeth per inch TPI and set also important for efficient cutting.

Most 14" consumer bandsaws including those with riser block will get by with carbon steel blades (hard-back, flex-back). Size of the wheel will shorten life (metal fatigue) of bi-metal and carbide blades. What is the max blade tension for your 14" bandsaw?
See link below.

Blade thickness and width important for 14" BS's. Unless low tension .032 blades stay with .025 thickness blades. 1/2" width blades about widest blade for these saws.

Do people buy bi-metal, carbide steel blades, thicker than .025 and wider than ½" for their 14" bandsaw? Yes, and on some bandsaws they seem to work well according to those people. Many people pretty disappointed too!

If cut a lot of exotic or dense woods bi-metal and carbide blades excel in cutting them and normal hard/soft woods too. For best of all worlds buy an 18" or larger bandsaw. Cost or space of a large saw out of the picture use carbon steel blades and slow feed rate. Remember TPI and set can help a lot too.

Setting Bandsaw Blade Tension
 
Depends on what you are doing. I used Woodcraftbands.com for the blades I am using now. They are resaw machines at $13.50 for the 105" but the cut is not as smooth as a Timbwerwolf. But at the same time, the blades have outlasted my old TW's in resawing. I dont cut veneers so this is a non issue to me. I am going to but one of their smaller finer tooth blades for my cleanup and if that does not work I will buy a TW just for cleanup but use the Lenox blades for my resaw.
 
jd99 said:
+1 on Carter products, I have their guides on my band saw, they work great. Also have their Stabilizer and it's the best thing there is when making Band Saw Boxes. :good::good:
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I also have Upper and Lower Rollers as well as a stabilizer and a ratchet tensioner. One day I will get the quick release. Carter makes great products but I have yet to try their blades.
 
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