Boat Building Forum

Find advice on all aspects of building your own kayak, canoe or any lightweight boats

Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
By:Mike Bielski
Date: 4/16/2010, 9:49 pm
In Response To: Shop: Need input on good table saws (Malcolm Schweizer)

You can overcome a lot of the problems with an underpowered saw by using a thin kerf blade in the saw. I'm sure that if you look back far enough you'll see that many people here use 7 1/4" circular saw blades. In my opinion the Freud blades are especially nice. They have very sharp carbide tips, and you can get them with a smaller tooth count. For ripping the fewer teeth the better.

If you go to the Fine Woodworking web site you'll find reviews of both thin kerf blades and small contractor-type saws done in the past year. It's a subscription site, but they will give a free 2-week trial.

m

Messages In This Thread

Shop: Need input on good table saws
Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/16/2010, 5:03 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws *PIC*
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 4/18/2010, 10:43 am
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Bill Hamm -- 4/17/2010, 7:36 am
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Ross Leidy -- 4/16/2010, 11:13 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Don T -- 4/17/2010, 12:47 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Mac McCaskie -- 4/18/2010, 4:27 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/18/2010, 7:33 am
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Robert N Pruden -- 4/22/2010, 7:04 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Don -- 4/19/2010, 10:43 am
What island are you on?
Brian Nystrom -- 4/18/2010, 11:01 am
Re: What island are you on?
Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/18/2010, 3:48 pm
Re: What island are you on?
Brian Nystrom -- 4/19/2010, 8:19 am
Re: What island are you on?
Bill Hamm -- 4/20/2010, 1:53 am
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
george jung -- 4/17/2010, 11:23 am
Bosch
Robert N Pruden -- 4/16/2010, 10:07 pm
Re: Bosch
fred g -- 4/18/2010, 9:17 pm
Ditto on the sharp blade comments
Robert N Pruden -- 4/16/2010, 10:09 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Mike Bielski -- 4/16/2010, 9:49 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Dave Gentry -- 4/16/2010, 9:23 pm
Sharp blades
Kudzu -- 4/16/2010, 9:49 pm
Re: Shop: Need input on good table saws
Mike -- 4/16/2010, 7:22 pm