Table Saw Blade

On Aug 4, 9:35 am, Jim Behning
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:04:03 -0500, "SGM" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
> >kerf. not seen a 3/16" saw blade.

HFT DADO Set has a 3/16" blade in the stack. the set is cheap enough
and may be just what this fella needs. Bonus, he gets a dado set with
shims.

On Aug 4, 6:04 am, "SGM" <[email protected]> wrote:
> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
> kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
> with dado (wobble or stacked)

But a targeted-width kerf IS a dado. Why do you want to make a
dado on a saw, but not want to deal with a dado saw blade?

Slitting blades of various widths can be custom-made, of course;
Router/shaper slitting blades are probably available, but
will not likely fit your table saw arbor. Enco sells a 3/16
inch HSS saw blade, 6" OD, 1" center hole, which could do
the job, but it's intended for a metal-cutting horizontal mill.
Their part number is 370-5650.

You can buy a 3/16 slot cutter that goes in a router.
Ted
"SGM" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
> kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
> with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2 passes/groove. Seems like there
> should be a 3/16" blade available somewhere.
> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks..........
>
>

Personally, I'd use a router but I can remember before I got one, making
multiple passes. not real fun but did the job.

Tom wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:04:03 -0500, "SGM" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
>>kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
>>with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2 passes/groove. Seems like there
>>should be a 3/16" blade available somewhere.
>> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>> Thanks..........
>>
>
> Pardon my confusion, but unless you're going to be using the blade in
> a dedicated saw, or for general cutting, you're still going to be
> faced with a blade change each time you need the wider kerf. So, I
> don't understand the reluctance to use a wobble dado or, as previously
> suggested, a stacked and shimmed pair of thin kerf blades.
>
> If this is a "special" one time only job and a 3/16 router bit isn't
> practical for some reason, before buying a specially fabricated wide
> kerf blade, I believe I'd opt for a couple of less expensive thin
> kerfs. You'd wind up with a couple of extra blades for general purpose
> cutting after the job is completed.
>
> Tom Veatch
> Wichita, KS
> USA

Thanks for all the suggestions. I appreciate the help. Not sure yet which
way I am going to go on this but I know several of the solutions offered
will work.
Best wishes............

"SGM" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
> kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
> with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2 passes/groove. Seems like there
> should be a 3/16" blade available somewhere.
> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks..........
>
>

SGM wrote:
> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
> kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
> with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2 passes/groove. Seems like there
> should be a 3/16" blade available somewhere.
> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be greatly
> appreciated.
> Thanks..........
>
>

Ask around for a bent or warped blade. You could even bend or
warp one yourself. It may be hit and miss to get it to be
exactly 3/16, but I bet it wouldn't be too difficult. Kind of
like a homemade wobble dado.

I know I have a few blades that have developed a wobble that
causes a wider kerf, but I have never measured to find out how
wide it was exactly. I just put them in the use them as
frisbees or to build a clock pile.

--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

Take a blade to a saw shop and have them reset the teeth

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On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:04:03 -0500, "SGM" <[email protected]> wrote:

> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
>kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
>with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2 passes/groove. Seems like there
>should be a 3/16" blade available somewhere.
> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be greatly
>appreciated.
> Thanks..........
>
Mount your router in the router table with a 3/16" bit? I have made
plenty of plywood shelves using a 3/4" router bit and a routing guide.

I have not seen a 3/16" saw blade. So what is wrong with a wobble
dado since a regular dado seems to make a 1/4" kerf or wider?

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:04:03 -0500, "SGM" <[email protected]> wrote:

> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
>kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
>with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2 passes/groove. Seems like there
>should be a 3/16" blade available somewhere.
> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be greatly
>appreciated.
> Thanks..........
>
Pardon my confusion, but unless you're going to be using the blade in
a dedicated saw, or for general cutting, you're still going to be
faced with a blade change each time you need the wider kerf. So, I
don't understand the reluctance to use a wobble dado or, as previously
suggested, a stacked and shimmed pair of thin kerf blades.

If this is a "special" one time only job and a 3/16 router bit isn't
practical for some reason, before buying a specially fabricated wide
kerf blade, I believe I'd opt for a couple of less expensive thin
kerfs. You'd wind up with a couple of extra blades for general purpose
cutting after the job is completed.

Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA

You will probably not find this as a blade. It will be rare as a
router bit. ???? buy two new identical thin kerf blades and space
them apart with paper shims ???? Kind of a homemade dado.

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"SGM" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with
> a 3/16 kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves.
> Don't want to deal with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2
> passes/groove. Seems like there should be a 3/16" blade
> available somewhere.
> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be
> greatly appreciated.
> Thanks..........
>
>

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 08:04:03 -0500, "SGM" <[email protected]> wrote:

> A novice trying to find a 10" (or less) table saw blade with a 3/16
>kerf. Only need 3/16" for special job making grooves. Don't want to deal
>with dado (wobble or stacked) or making 2 passes/groove. Seems like there
>should be a 3/16" blade available somewhere.
> Any suggestions as to where I might buy such blade would be greatly
>appreciated.

Try a 1/8" blade, set the fence up so when you flip the board you cut
the 1/16" for your 3/16" cut (that is assuming you are doing a groove
length wise) if your crosscutting a groove a stop block with a 1/16
shim would work.

Mark