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      Comparing Cermet and Tungsten Carbide Saw Teeth

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    Bandsaw Blade Brazing(Post)

    Bandsaw (Band Saw) Blade Brazing Six Easy Steps Clean and bevel the blade ends  Clamp blade ends to the fixture Spread the flux Braze Anneal Remove excess alloy Size of Blade With a very small, nar

    Tenryu Plastic Cutting Saw Blade- Cool Customer Video(Post)

    We had a wonderful customer the other day in a panic! It was late in the day, and he needed a Tenryu plastic cutting saw blade-PRP-255120AB3 shipped Next Day Air to North Carolina. Our normal cut-off

    Sawfilers, a Dying Trade?(Post)

    What is a Sawfiler, who are they, what do they do and why is the trade slowly dying? The best response to these questions is to quote Thomas Walz: “Sawfilers design, build, repair and maintain ultra-p

    How to Prevent Chipping and Get Cleaner Cuts (Using Scoring Blades)(Post)

    Chipping can easily ruin an otherwise perfect woodworking project. If you are struggling with tear-out at the bottom of your cuts, the solution lies in pairing your main table saw blade with a matchin

    Bad Surface and Gumming(Page)

       Chrome Plating Not Gummed Out of Notch   

    Band Saw Tooth Selection Guide(Post)

    Timber Processing Article(Page)

    New Cermet Grade Saw Tips Enhance Cutting Speed  and

    How Carbide Powder is Pressed(Page)

    Tungsten carbide shapes are made from a powder which is typically tungsten, carbon, cobalt and wax to bind it all together.  Carbide shapes are made th

    Making Cermet Material(Page)

    Making Cermet II Materials What follows are some explanations of how to make advanced carbide

    Cleaning Steel (Page)

    Cleaning Steel Before Brazing There are many differing opinions in this area. I recommend Easy Off Oven Cleaner for cleanliness test because it is easy, cheap, effective and everyone knows it is...

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    What Do You Get In A Quality Tool?(Post)

    The question “What do you get in a quality tool” came up on a forum today.   Somebody needed a new endmill and  was looking at two different endmills.  One end mill was higher quality, but cost four t

    Cutting Frozen Lumber(Page)

    As wood freezes the water part becomes more important to the cutting. Cutting unfrozen wood is a matter of severing wood fibers. Cutting lightly frozen wood is a matter of cutting a slushy mix...

    Tool Tipping Materials(Page)

    Carbide & Other Tool Tipping Materials   From the book Building Superior Brazed Tools Buy the Book

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    Steel Brazing- Brazing to Laser Cut Steel(Page)

     Why You Need To Gum Saw Plate  (You can buy saw plate that has been sandblasted to remove the heat affected zone.  This can work but it takes a lot of sandblasting.)   

    Simple Solutions to Brazing Problems(Page)

    About 80 - 90% that these answers will solve these problems.  If you want more details you can go to our Braze Failure Analysis page.  Or buy the books.  You can also call 1-800...

    Why plywood needs special tools(Page)

    You quite often get better results with plywood when you use special tools, such as saw blades and router bits,  designed especially for plywood rather than tools deigned for wood.   In...