Best Buy Sawmill And Sharpener

Best Buy Sawmill And Sharpener WOODLOT EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous Sidney Stubbs Beaver Lodge Alta : “I’ve used my Norwood bandsaw blade sharpener and tooth setter for more than 20 years The sharpening stone on it is superior to other bandsaw blade sharpeners that I’ve seen It’s much gentler “When I sharpen my blades the stone barely touches the blade tooth giving off a tiny spark That’s important so it doesn’t heat the blade My blades last me 19 1/2 hrs on average “I watch others being used and they have big stones and the sparks just fly It’s no wonder they have to change blades so often They’ll tell me theirs last only a 1 1/2 to 2 hrs “My Norwood sawmill is also a best buy It’s one of the smaller ones with only a 20-in throat It uses a 140-in blade I can sharpen one side in about 3 min and set the teeth in 15 min Then I flip it inside out and do the other side “The sharpener and tooth setter cost me around $1 100 in 2001 when I bought it It’s paid for itself at least five times over It’s easy on the blades and stone I ordered half a dozen stones when I bought it and I still have two or three left They last a long time and I’ve sawn a lot of lumber “The company suggests the maximum size log it will saw out is 24 in with its 20-in throat However I figured out how to cut up a tree as big as 3 ft in diameter with it “Instead of a square cant I cut a hexagonal cant I can cut 20-in boards on each side rotating the cant and reducing the diameter as I go It takes a little wiggling but it works ”

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