Comments on: DIY Carbide Saw Blade Sharpening + 4 Blade Sharpening Services

By: Karlos

Karlos — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:18:25 +0000

I to could not resist the desire to give this harbor freight tool a try. In doing framing work, I go through many blades in the old circ.

After reading a variety of posts on how to sharpen carbide, it does not seem that hard if you take your time and keep things straight.

I have a big collection of old blades to practice on and will post a reply after trying to prefect my sharpening skills.

Wish me luck.

By: Pop Ryan

Pop Ryan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:13:32 +0000

Geeze I wish I would have found this info before I went and bought the sharpening tool shown at the Harbor Fright site. I couldn’t resist the $60 price tag. Like most everything you buy at Harbor, the instructions leave a lot to be desired. Especially if it’s been translated from Chinese to English and back again. There are no pictures to show an actual set-up, just verbal instructions. Which are lousy to say the least. Construction is fairly good though. There is no paperwork included to give you any idea of the angles needed to resharpen typical table saw or circular saw blades so you wind up like me Googling search strings to find typical numbers. Unless you’ve kept the original papaerwork that came with your blades or know where to find the manufactrers info you’re stuck. I haven’t tried anything with it yet so once I get brave and try a blade or two, I’ll come back and do a better review.

By: Jude

Jude — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:46 +0000

Wow, thanks for the very thorough explanation!

This web thing is pretty cool, it might just catch on…

By: John French

John French — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:40:57 +0000

I donate my used blades to my local Habitat ReStore, where I volunteer weekly. The old blades still have a useful life in cutting “questionable” wood that might contain nails, and tradesmen snap them up for use on the job site and storing in their pick-ups. Plus Habitat gets a little more money to support home-building in my city.

By: Rusty Byrley

Rusty Byrley — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:14:53 +0000

I use a guy in Grapeland, Texas by the name of Mike Barnfield from JMB Saw.They are extremely good. I’m a professional woodworker so I have shopped around alot and have found that he is by far the best I’ve ever seen. A typical table saw blade sharpening will last about a month with me using it everyday. I cut alot of bd. ft. of lumber being a cabinet builder. We also use a Hitachi 10″ SCMiter daily and the blades usually last about 24 working days or so before they start to fuzz a board. I’m not saying that all blades will be this way. It depends on the quality of your blade or blank. He also custom builds blades and repairs carbide teeth by replacing them. He has built me a custom blade for my Hitachi SC Miter and I love it.

By: toolcrib

toolcrib — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:26:54 +0000

Thanks for your comment Jack! Are you affiliated with this company? If so, would you be willing to comment on the DIY sharpening info I provided?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:07:32 +0000

http://www.burnstools.com and http://www.saw-sharpening.com are one-in-the-same and offer high end sharpening.

Some more really good info about blades and sharpening service here:
http://www.tchisel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=74