Each Blade is Custom Built

by the very best people on the very best machines using the finest materials as well as materials and techniques that are uniquely our own.

History

In 1995 we started research on using advanced materials in saw blades. We earned a couple patents and expected a big company to license our technology and make us rich. It turned out that no who makes or sharpens saw blades wants a blade that lasts a lot longer. Fortunately we had been at the top end of the tool industry for over 25 years and knew the best of the best. We decided to build our own saw blades and knew the people who could and would help us do it. (Twenty five years of hard work, honest dealing and paying our bills on time turned out to be the right thing to do.)

Technology:

The steel has a unique chemistry ordinarily found only in very large, very thin saw blades in major mills.  It is ordinarily considered too good and too expensive for saw blades this size but we use it because it is the best there is. 

The steel is precision laser cut with a unique grind / temper / grind / repeat cycle to fully condition and flatten the plate. 

Our braze alloy is a unique alloy, AWS certified and made to purities well below one in a million parts.   It is exceptionally impact and corrosion resistant.  In tests at the Weyerhaeuser Technical Center this alloy prevented tip loss and tip breakage by 40% to 60% over standard alloys. 

Our tips are much better than anyone else wants to use.   they are much stronger than C-1 and much longer wearing than C-4, C-5 or C-6.     

The machines are incredibly good and incredibly expensive.   To make a single saw blade it takes about $1,500,000 worth of equipment.  The equipment is accurate to one one hundredth of one thousandth of an inch. (0.00001").    This is incredibly important because, even with the finest, man made, highly frangible diamonds you are still grinding extremely hard materials on the saw tips.  Through out the various steps in the manufacturing cycle small inconsistencies creep in and add up just as they do with furniture or any other manufacturing process.  With truly excellent equipment you still get a finished saw blade with tolerances measured in tenths of thousandths of an inch (0.0001). 

The true secret is the people.  All the way through the process are men and women who have devoted whole careers to being the very best of the very best.  

90% - 95% Success

About 90 to 95% of people who order these saw blades love them.  If you look at any woodworking forum you can see what an incredibly high success ratio this is. 

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