Stu's Shed

Intended purpose: Crosscut
Tooth count: 100
Price: $148
Source: Woodworking Warehouse

Tooth Grind: ATB (alternating top bevel)
Kerf: 2.24mm
Carbide thickness (measured front face to braze): 2.26mm
Carbide length: 6.53mm
Front face length: 4.25mm

Blade axial runout: 0.030″ (0.76mm)
Expansion slots: 5, flattened hook design
Anti-noise slots: none

Blade body thickness: 1.52mm

Another of the typical Linbide style hooks with tiny arrest hole. Clean in the wide section, but seems to get a bit jagged in the narrow portions.

General Description:

A very fine-toothed blade – fitting 100 teeth on the rim makes them pretty closely packed. This blade should have done wonders with crosscutting, but unfortunately it seems to suffer from a terminal case of runout. Just over 3/4 of a millimetre is substantial, and I think it really affected the blade’s cutting performance, so this blade is probably not a good one to know the potential of this model.

During operation, the blade would literally scream – starting off relatively quietly, but after a few seconds of unloaded running, a high pitch sound would begin to emanate, rising to over 105dB.

The cuts:

Melamine (Particle Board Backing)

Top Edge

An excellent top surface cut.

Bottom Edge

Tearout is apparent, and yet I would have expected this blade to do a very good job here.

KD Hardwood Rip

A reasonable hardwood rip for a 100 tooth blade. This cut was quite unusual in that it was surprisingly easy to feed for a crosscut blade.

Treated Pine Rip

A pretty ordinary finish, I think caused by the excessive runout.

Softwood (Pine) Rip

Same with the softwood, to a lesser degree. With a slow feed, these should be very smooth.

KD Hardwood Crosscut

A good result in crosscut of hardwood – certainly nothing untoward here.

Treated Pine Crosscut

An average finish to the treated pine crosscut. This should have been a lot smoother.

Softwood (Pine) Crosscut

A pretty average cut in pine, given the blade’s tooth count.