How to sharpen your blades; fast, easy, and efficiently - the Bandsaw blade edition.
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- Опубликовано: 3 май 2015
- Sharpening the Timber Wolf blades for your bandsaw mill by hand.
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These are the blades I am using:
Timber Wolf®
155" x 1-1/4" x 3/4" x .029 set (103SS) x .045 thickness
timberwolfbandmillblades.com/p...
Specifications
Width: 1.25"
TPI (Tooth Per Inch): 1.3 (3/4" pitch)
Tooth Design: Timber Wolf
Blade Thickness: .045
Kerf: .103 (.029 set per side)
Tooth Hook Angle: 10°
Tooth Set Pattern: Left/Right/Center
Tooth Hardness: 67 Rc
Hardening Method: Induction
Material: Swedish Silicon Steel 
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The welded seam is called a buttweld. You could get a longer life out of your bandsaws if you ground the face of the tooth as well. The gullet should be sharpened as well. The face of the tooth is what's doin the cutting. It needs to be squared up otherwise it and the gullet will become rounded after a few runs. Which in turn causes spillage of the saw dust past the band, and causes excessive heat which will result in early failure of your band. I am a saw filer the bands I work on are 11" wide with 250 teeth, 5 tooth variable pitch and the bandmill wheels are 7ft in diameter. I enjoyed your work. Nice to see something diff. Saw filing is awesome.
It is actually the top .010 of the tooth that does the cutting, so grinding that much off the tip 10 times removes .100 of tooth height. Many of these hobby mills don't run fast enough to wear the tooth face significantly, and the partial loss of set doesn't matter much on small softwood logs.
I'm strictly a novice when it comes to woodworking but I love to tinker with it.I will de`finitely use your technique to sharpen my bandsaw blades. I'm 88 and still learning something EVERY DAY. thanks for your nice video John.
I hate when people advise me about a safety stuff, however I spent most of my life as an Optician and saw many patients come in with metal shavings embedded in their eyes.
The procedure for debriding the metal is to drill it out of your cornea. Metal shavings instantly start to rust when they get stuck in your eye.
I can't stress enough how important it is to use safety glasses when you are filing metal into microscopic pieces of shrapnel
Been there, done that and it hurts like hell. I got caught when one tiny fleck of steel from an angle grinder job somehow got past my safety specs!! The hot spark got "burnt-stuck" to my eyeball. I was lucky & I still have two eyes.
Billy Blaze l
I have had wire rope pieces in my eye from lack of safety glasses. I lost all depth perception for the week my eye was covered. Safety glasses aren't something I take lightly anymore!
Love you in field saw sharpening videos. Very handy techniques to get you out of a bind.
Great video. Very helpful. I love how your dog knows what time it is. Is it play time? Nah, he’s standing over that loud thing again. I’ll try back in an hour. Lol.
Love your video, I think even the new blades could use a touch up. All the best, Edgar
Thank you for the info.Going to buy a Band saw soon.
Thanks Rocket Factory excellent Demo well worth watching
Excellent video! I’m just learning to sharpen my bandsaw blades and so far I stink at it. You method makes more sense than the gullet method.
Looks good and simple. Ill use this method.
when camera shot from the bottom to top, it looks fantastic, grinding wheel sparks to the screen, a good way to take videos for abrasive tools, helpful.
I had no idea I could do this myself. Now I know how.
(loved the shot from underneath :)
Thanks! When will you make the carbide bandsaw blade sharpening video?
Great video! Thanks
Have you seen the Aussie sharpening bandsaw blades with a chain saw sharpener?
cool man,...i am going to do mine like this from now on!
thanks for the video. very informative
I love the helmet cam!
Great video. Thankful for that news. I had started to feel I would go through my new bandsaw blades too fast. Glad to know I can do this.
Hi I was wondering don't you have to grind the tip of the blade at 10*
I see a DeWalt radial arm saw in the background, that qualifies you- in my opinion- to speak on just about any woodworking topic, mastery of that saw equals mastery of the trade, you can do everything a tablesaw can, and more, in a foot print that is only 20% of a tablesaw, even while backed up to a wall- try that with your saw table. ☺
good vid ty learned something new
How would sharpening the backside of the cutting edge help anything? Waste of time...
Nice. Where do you get your safety contact lenses?
Nice, informative video. Thanks for posting. Watch your eyes tho! Nothing will spoil your day more than getting a hot spark burn a little crater in your eyeball and having to go to the hospital to have it removed. This has happened to me a few times when I was too lazy to put on protective glasses. You are only given one pair of eyes - so look after them !
Eh. Ya got 2 of em.. lost a testicle from cancer, might as well loose another ball to some shit also.. that lefty though, hes a trooper.. lonely but a trooper.. not easy being a uniball all alone in a sack..
I just bought a new blade so I won't need this for a year maybe but loved the angles, great edit, thanks.
If you have a bandsaw mill, you must to sharpen the blade every 2-3 hours of cutting.
Is there any set to this blade? I was thinking I would have to do like every other tooth to match any off set the blade may have. Or perhaps the set does not even have to be addressed when sharpening using this method here.
thanks very much nice job
We sharpen in the gullets with a modified chainsaw chain sharpener. Less than half the sharpening you are getting. Our blades always seem to lose tooth set and wander in the cut after the 4th sharpening. Are you setting teeth occasionally in your method? What makes you discard? When the teeth get too thin, wandering cuts, broken blades or? We also use and like the TimberWolf blades.
NelsonStudios Good questions. I'd recommend you try this method and stay out of the gullet. I'm not a blade expert but in my experience the gullet is strictly there for helping clear material and a non cutting area. Also, 10 sharpens was a generalization, I believe I am getting more then that - 12 or 13. The next batch of blades I want to try die stamping notch marks to keep track of exactly how many sharpens I get. I'm not setting teeth. I use the artistic method, If I see a tooth that looks out of whack with the rest of the teeth I adjust it. Also, by only hitting the tips you leave some original blade angle in the gullet you can use to align the grinder and keep consistent angles every sharpen.
Every blade I have discarded has been because the metal gave out and snapped from stretching. I have one blade that is still going strong that I should have shown, there isn't much of a tooth left. It still cuts fine but it doesn't clear the material as well and it's a slower cut.
The only wandering cuts I get are related to sloppy blade tension or real dense knots and I catch those problems in post with the planer.
Just wondering wen u watch the companys that sell mills they show ther sharpening on the inside n gullet being sharpened
Pretty slick way to get more life out of a cheap blade. The timber wolf blade sharpening system is with all the equipment is quite expensive. You file out the gullets at all to prevent cracks ?
I just wonder , Do we need to bend the teeth after sharpenning ? please tell .
Hi know how to re sharp of any blade i'm looking good to your resharpened
hey man i just want to ask if in this video, why you didnt put or used a coolant?
how do you find the carbide blade for cutting
THANK YOU!
thank you for sharing . if you don not mind i spent 10 yrs as a machinist . i worked with all kinds of equipment just a heads up if you dont mind using the side of a grinder is okay IF you dress it , clean it off . here is what can happen and i do hope it does not . if you clog up the sides of a grinding wheel the wheel gets hot . a grinding wheel is nothing but grit and glue if clogged up it will get hot and release the glue . so exploding wheel can happen . again I do want to thank you for sharing .
Walter Rider Good comment, fine job also. FYI from a retired machinist. Ever time you use a grinder, you need to dress the wheel. The wheel is not balanced, and you will get a rough
grind. Hope this helps!
and dont grind aluminium
You have a lot of good information in your video! This video answers all the questions I had, including how much time you can use a bandsaw blade before it needs sharpening. Thanks very much! Please wear your safety glasses though.
Great video. I just got a band saw, and I need to learn how sharpen the blades.
I think a bench grinder is the most economical thing you can have in a shop. I sharpen all kinds of drill bits, chisels, even razor knife blades.
Ttf Web Yeap, depending on the TPI of your blade there are going to be different methods to sharpen. I didn't get the second part of this video finished but I'll address the smaller TPI blades when I sharpen the carbide.
I love that grinder I have; it's quite, smooth, and it goes to full rpm instantly. You can spend a lot more money on grinders and not get any of those traits.
hmmm wish there was an easy way to do this while maintaining the geometry instead of shortning the height of the tooth each time. i mostly cut metal and the teeth are pretty small, dont really know if theyd survive this.
I'm Saw Doctor Saw Shop in Philippines any blade i know how to Sharp
OK. muito bom, mas gostaria de ver coce fazendo isso com uma serra 3/16.
Nice job on the sharpening. Enjoy your eyesight...
Safety glasses!!! Pretty good video, thanks
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i always thought you sharpened the gullet?
Billy that's right. this is the worst way of sharpening a bandsawblade
Billy p
I was wondering if you should sharpen a more tpi blade or a thinner blade. I don't have a large bandsaw or any blade past 3/4 ". What would you suggest yes or no to sharpening smaller blades?
I do it. The real fine tooth blades are kind of a pain but it's possible. Just a matter of how much the blade costs and if it's worth taking the time to sharpen it or if it's a better investment to buy a new one. With these big blades ~$45 per blade they are easy to do and worth the time.
Interesting way to approach sharpening the blade.
Make it shorter every time and reduce the girth as well.
I sharpen the 3 different pitches and set the curve and depth into the blade.
I made my own equipment that works pretty fast.
How many times do you sharpen a blade before you throw it away?
Nice job and dog)))
I have a large Laguna bandsaw which I use chiefly for cutting up firewood. The blade on it is pretty dull but I'm not looking forward to doing one tooth at a time for a hundred and fifty teeth. How about mounting the blade backwards, turning the saw on, then holding an ordinary knife sharpening stone against one side of the teeth, then the other. It probably wouldn't be as good as doing each tooth individually but it would be a lot quicker.
I'm not sure, I do all my teeth individually and it takes around 5-10 minutes.
Xlooks good
could you do it with an angle grinder?
That's what I do while the blade is still on the mill, actually a DeWalt 20V cordless version, takes about 7 minutes and I'm right back cutting again. I just use the log I just canted for a seat and adjust the blade so its conformable for me, sometimes I come across a tooth where the set is off and I correct that in the process.
how many times I could sharp the blade before I decide to replace it?
I sharpen them until they don't clear the sawdust anymore IE cut slow or they break. I'm getting 5-6 sharpens per blade.
Thats great…… It's always going to stay sharp👍 Especially as it's NOT the cutting edge!!!🤪
Need to sharpen from the gullit side eventuly loose the whole tooth
i leave mine on the mill and use a 4,5'' angle grinder or a die grinder with a rowlock disck
This sharpening the "Backside" of the Tooth is a new one on me and I'm not so sure it makes a lot of sense to me either, I get it that you get a nice sharp point but you're not just cutting with a sharp point at least you're not supposed too !!! that's not efficient you're supposed to use the Whole tooth From TIP to Gullet so it should all be sharpened as far as I'm concerned ????
How can this be better ????
I see a Duc! 👍
Interesting video. Thanks. Maybe, if you want to add a good educative part, I strongly advise wearing protective face shield or at least protective glasses anytime when manipulating the blade and especially while using the grinding wheel.
Where your safety glass?
The only problem is you didn't sharpen the gullet.
I needed my safety googles lol
backside of tooth ..a revelation
Ok, here’s the problem with this... if you do not go through the whole process your losing life on your blades!! You have to set first then you need a grinder that will trace the blade contour. Just touching the top will get you out of a hard spot but that not the best way to get this job done. That’s why us sharpening guys spend thousands of dollars on equipment. Although he did a pretty good job of touch up. But!!! If he sends that thing out for sharpening it will probably get sent back with a note that says can’t be sharpened!!!
The belt must grind mainly in the tooth root due to micro cracks!
Have the name of a good eye doc if you need to get some grinding metal out of an eye. The extraction of the metal shards is not that bad but the rust debreement is no fun. Stay safe so you can get old and give unwanted advise.
não da prá acreditar o gringo economizando na afiação😂😂🔩🔨🔧
Had to pause to put on safety glasses.. put me right in the line of farr.. hotdamnya..
Show us how sharp it is by cutting something. From all the negative comments you didn't sharpen it properly.
grinding the backside of a tooth is frowned upon. You need a precisely held grinder coming down on the inside of the tooth at a 10 deg or whatever your blade is cut at and then clean a few thou out of the gullet to prevent cracking. Grinding the backside does nothing for the gullet.
Odd, I haven't had any issues, but then again I went to the chainsaw store and was recommended a new blade after one sharpen. Different incentives and comfort levels. The blade just needed a quick touch up with a round file rather than replaced.
This is exactly OPPOSITE of the way you're supposed to sharpen a bandsaw blade. The front of the tooth and the gullet are supposed to be sharpened and the back side of the blade tooth is untouched. The gullet should be ground to prevent the microfractures that form there from growing and spreading which can eventually cause blade failure.
That's the other thing hardly anybody spending any time Setting their teeth any more either that's a thing of the past ? Too much work ???? How is it supposed to remove the sawdust ?
Sir this is wrong stone
Why the heck would you sharpen the back of the tooth makes absolutely no sense
Dude get your safety glasses on.
MAN YOU GET A PIE OF THAT IN YOUR EYE PLEAS USE SAFETY GLASSINESS ---- I HAVE BAD EYES SO TAKE CARE OF YOURS
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the way is terrible you want them to last and be super sharp and right tooth set..you send them to far west forest products!!!
+Steve Udo Is the shipping to and from, including cost of sharpening less than $20? It's a $20 blade ... who would spend $30-40 to resharpen it?
The only thing terrible here is your ability to reason.
It's not the the best way to do a resharp blade
Nope, but it works.
Wrong way to sharpen
thanks very much nice job
thanks very much nice job