What's the single best table saw blade?
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🎵 Flat bottom blades, you make the sawing world go round 😆👍
F.Y.I. - For those of you wanting to get into woodworking I just wanted to say I am very pleased with Steve's woodworking program and helpful staff. Just before the pandemic I signed up for his Weekend Workshop to setup my own workshop. His plans are excellent and extremely practical. Also Steve's large collection of free instructional video's, like this one, are excellent.
Well thanks Timothy! I really appreciate that! 👍👊
Ditto.
Completely agree! Been amazing what I have learned and built for family and friends. Thanks Steve!
I agree with Timothy. Last year, I signed up for the course as well. Before this I had never (never, I tell you) made anything. I didn't have hardly any of the tools. But I completed the course and can say I feel confident in moving forward with my new hobby. Thanks Steve!
Agreed! Built a couple RIOs, a couple Flip-Top carts and the lumber racks already. Great course!
The flat tooth on the combo makes it the winner in my mind because you can make grooves and dadoes and have them be smooth inside.
Finally, complete blades explanation, simple and efficient. Thanks again Steve.
Just when you thought Friday couldn't get better, another great video from Steve
My wife and I watch your videos everynight. just started woodworking a few weeks ago, your videos have helped A lot. We thanks you.
Good to hear, I have done the same and while you may not build every project, each one has taught me ways of doing certain tasks, or given me ideas for things to incorperate into other projects
It's true, there are so many different types of blades to choose from. For me, the choice is simple, though: I use ONLY the round ones with teeth. 🤣🤣🤣
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Videos like this one is why I keep coming back to your channel. Thanks Steve.
Awesome, simplistic view of blade types. Really enjoyed the blade pitch definitions.
But maybe another thing that should have been noted is how they are used and maintained. Most people buy new blades when their perfectly good blade only needs cleaning. Usually due to pushing too hard or cutting too much pitchwood (pine, etc.). A well maintained blade will last much longer than a dirty and abused blade, saving even more.
Just love your clean easy to digest info. I have been using tools and a table saw my whole life, very very infrequently, and never knew what blade differences meant.
Your timing with this video is perfect. I’ve been wondering what blade would work best for me, and your description of FTB and ATB was something I didn’t know about. Thanks!
Wonderful explanation of table saw blades! One of my favourite videos from you this year.
It's the first practical explanation about blade design I've heard, and one that hasn't left me more undecided than I was before I heard it.
I agree with your general assessment, but I have found one personal exception to the rule. For me, something like a Freud glue line rip blade is really good when you're going to be doing some edge glue ups that you don't want to spend a lot of time making sure are tight. Just rip and go. Obviously, there's a trade off in terms of time spent changing the blade (and cost of blade), but when edge gluing long (say, >4') boards, it's worth it for me.....especially if you don't have a floor mounted jointer.
Time to renew my table saw blade. Thanks Steve. Great advice from the maestro!
Great video Steve. Explained this confusing subject extremely well!
Hola! 🖐 Thanks for the excellent and detailed explanation. You are right that one can easily get saturated and overwhelmed with data and information. Your videos and this one included, help simplify the subject you discuss. Even though blades are not the biggest investment in the shop, it's probably one of the most used and most relied upon for a good finished product. Thanks for the video, hope to see many more in the future. Take care and have a good one, Adios! 👊
Thanks Steve, very useful information for me. I am in the market for a new blade for my table saw and this helped me a lot.
Thank you for this common sense approach! Especially the "lab tested" differences. It's like "the best jigsaw"; it just depends so much more on the individual ability than the lab-tested quality of the tool.
Great video - clear, concise explanation of valuable information!
Thank you. New DIY'er here. I appreciate the insight. Going with the GP blade for my circular and a 80t Diablo for my MITRE
Excellent video....finally on this topic. For the uninitiated, this topic is bewildering. Thank you.
Hi Steve from New Zealand.. This video is very timely… I have just a couple a month ago purchased a bright and shiny table saw and I decided that it would be good to replace the blade that came with the saw with a “more superior” / good brand 80 tooth blade.. But as you mentioned when using it I experienced burn marks and very hard to feed wood through!! I then watched your video and got the correct info and replaced the blade with a 40 tooth general purpose one, (actually the exact same make as the one in your video), boy I instantly noticed the difference… like a hot knife through butter!!
Thanks for your help!
I'm a pretty intermediate woodworker and know all about the different cuts and types of blade and what you should use for cross cutting or ripping etc, but I still learned something from this video and enjoyed watching it. I learned the angle of the teeth for the blades that I use most, had no idea a Diablo GP 40 tooth has a higher 30° angle or the 15° combo angle. Personally I keep the higher count teeth in my miter saw and use a 24 tooth ripping for thick 12/4 exotic hardwoods,but everything else I use a 40t, and if I need a flat bottom I just use a dado stack.
I really like your common sense approach. Most folks in woodworking are doing it as a sort of hobby and don’t want to spend a ton of money of equipment. Thanks for your great videos.
I've been watching you for a decade. Yet another informative video.
I have a rip blade and a combo blade. Its more work in changing out blades often, but it minimizes wear and tear on each blade. I also primarily purchase my wood in a rough cut format, and tend to make several rip cuts in the process of preparing my lumber for use.
Fantastic breakdown of different blade types. One of the best I’ve seen. Very straightforward but still full of good detail. Thank you Steve for always sharing your practical approach. I love other channels too but it’s nice to have this to counter some of the more bourgeois guys out there.
Couldn't agree more. Gave me the confidence to experiment cutting unusual shell depths. Cheers.
Awesome tips, Steve! Thanks a bunch! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thank you for this info and your personal experience
Thank you Steve for the information. You made my decision easy watching this video.
Very well spoken Steve. Wonderful explanation.
Hi, Steve. I didn't imagine such science on this subject. Even some professional woodworkers I know can tell the difference between saw blades with this detail level. That's a very important information to make nice and safety cuts. Thank you for sharing and have a nice day.
Thanks for a clear, concise explanation of these two blade types. I do find a rip blade advantageous for ripping "two by" construction lumber or hardwoods, but your description and case for a default general purpose blade is very compelling, and it is the blade most commonly installed in my table saw.
While your intended audience might be "mere mortals", there is nothing "mere" about your content or style. Your approachability, clarity, and focus are outstanding and have given me a lot of inspiration for the kinds of things I would like to build and the ways I might build them.
Thanks for always bringing new school insights! Usually helps us mere mortals save some money! 🤓👍
Steve I know shorts are taking off, but I need long from videos from you. You are my zen. Thank you for all of your content!
Short & sweet - thanks, Steve.
Another informative video I'm about to buy some new blades for a couple of my saws so well timed
Very good comparison. Thanks for posting, and thumbs up.
Thank you, great information 👍. All the best. Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family. ❤️ 😀
You've really done your homework. Thanks for a good job.
20 years of woodworking. This man speaks the truth.
2 years of woodworking. Seems like a nice guy. He probably speaks the truth. 😂
I had been using one of the Diablo combo blades, and recently (after reading some forum comments, and talking with a sales person) decided to update to dedicated rip cut and crosscut blades. After seeing this video, I now question whether that was really necessary, or if I fell into the trap of "need more tools!"
That said, I think I am still okay with this idea of swapping blades for a few reasons:
1. Swapping blades for different cuts will hopefully put me in a mindset of "slowing down" and thinking about each step of a process, rather than just plowing through a whole bunch of steps (which is when errors or injury could occur).
2. Swapping blades gives one a good opportunity to inspect the blade, clean the blade and the setup, and just make sure I've always got my eye on the everything. If one *never* changed blades, it would be easy to ignore what is happening under the throat plate.
3. Probably will get more life out of both blades, if swapping, than out of a single blade, for the reasons Steve noted.
So... that's that :)
That’s some solid advice. Thanks 👍
Very informative! Thank you, Steve!
After watching this video I bought a new 50 tooth combo blade. That and Taylor tools is have a sale of 30-50% of CMT saw blades. I’ve been wanting one for a while and your video helped me decide which one to get yesterday.
Thanks Steve for the info. I am about to order a new table saw for myself and wanted to know which saw blade is best for me. I think I’ll go with the Combo one!
Great information Steve. I use a general-purpose blade and feel no reason to but or use anything else.
Frankly I use an 80T crosscut blade for everything and have never had a problem. I'll trade going a little slower for a sanded like finish on the cut surface and less tear out.
Great video!! Lots of info.
The is excellent, so helpful. Thank you for posting.
Thank you for the lesson. This is great info.
Good comprehensive talk.
Steve, great video, learned something, thank you, thumbs up!
Interesting to watch a woodworker dive deep into blade science and get it mostly right. Well done
Really helpful, Steve. Thank you!
Love your videos! Great info.
I agree with the brand and the 40 tooth blade. I've tried many different brands and Diablo has been best hands down.
I used one of those on a colleague's saw, it was amazing. It's like hot knife thru butter. I need to make flat bottom occasionally, so my choice was dictated. So combo is best for weekend woodworker like me. Just in case I need to rip a lot of stuff, I can always put back on the 24-tooth blade that comes with the saw. It has 0 miles on it. Changing out saw blade on my saw was not as bad as the old ones. Since it uses ACME thread, it comes off pretty easily and both blade alignments were near perfect (Diablo has better flatness).
Thanks very much for the info Steve. 👍
I'm hoping to begin woodworking this summer as I have a big(ish) birthday coming up and my wife has seen me watching your TH-cam videos. She doesn't miss much!
I have expressed my concerns about not having enough space for a Mitre saw and a Table saw in our 12 x 8 shed (which we share), but we'll see how we get on.
Any tips on setting up in a small space would be most welcome. All the best, Andy in North Yorkshire 👍
Great discussion. As a hobbyist I can make most of my cuts with a general purpose blade, including rips up to about 1.5 - 2 inches. In seems the general purpose does much better on crosscuts and sheet goods as compared to a combination blade. But when ripping thicker stock the general purpose struggles and the combination blade shines. However the combination blades does just a little worse on sheet goods and cross cuts. All this assumes the table saw fence and miter slots are properly aligned, if not no blade will perform well.
The choice may come down to whether or not you own a band saw. Bandsaws are fantastic for ripping even thick stock and in my opinion safer. I now rip on the band saw and clean up on the jointer to table saw. So for me, the general purpose blade is ideal and I only pull out the combination blade is rare cases.
Thank you for sharing this with us, so many choices. Blades cost a lot of money. From Henrico County Virginia
Thank you for your explanation.
very well put!!!!
Great info! Awesome video
This is useful, I didn't much about table saw blades until i saw this.
Great information thanks for sharing ✌️💪💪
It's worth mentioning that rip blades have another feature that can be beneficial. They are thinner, and if you are re-sawing with a table saw, your material savings might be important.
Great video. I still prefer cross cut and ripping blades when I need a perfect cut though. "Near perfect" is usually okay most of the time.
Edit: Actually I've been using general purpose blades for a few projects and I noticed I get way smoother rip cuts. And cross cuts aren't that bad. I'm really liking general purpose blades now.
I love Diablo blades.
Great job 👍
thanks for the info....good job
Great video Steve, even by your standards this is a particularly well scripted and chosen topic hitting on an area that hasn't been done to death of great use to the hobby woodworker.
I have a combo blade and a flat-bottom-groove blade and I find myself reaching for any other with less and less frequency. but my father also convinced me that 'it isn't going in the [redacted] smithsonian" is a good general rule and as such having the exact right blade probably isn't all that crucial.
"that slight edge they need" - har har har. I see what you did there. Nice video. I bought a glue line Freud rip blade for a very fancy project a while back (I don't have a jointer) and was very pleased with it.
While I don't feel the need to have an 80t crosscut blade in the table saw, I certainly think the rip blade is worth using for any long or deep rips. If you've spent big bucks on hardwood, it's worth making a blade switch to cut it more cleanly.
With a good table saw it won't take long to switch the blade once you're used to it. I find changing the blade to be trivial on my SawStop. It was a bigger hurdle to realize it wasn't a big deal to change the blade. Even switching to and from a Dado set isn't so tough except for lining up the other brake.
I bought a rip blade for turning some ugly but free 2x12s into 2x4 for random usage and wish I'd bought the blade sooner for ripping 2x4s in half, which I do a decent amount for household projects where 2x4 is overkill. My favorite use is supports for fruit laden tree branches where the ripped 2x4 is much easier, and a pair of them gives me simple height adjustment.
Agreed! I think a nice rip blade is needed for thick hardwoods.
Thanks Steve!
Great video - thanks so much.
Awesome. I suspect for most of us we’d rather get a cut done than spend time switching blades 😅 (even if it just takes a few seconds). I’ve been making jigs with oak plywood because that’s all the big box stores had when I bought it and my rip cut blade tears out horribly! Will pick up a GP for my lazy self to set and forget 👍
FINALLY! Thank you for explaining.
Did see you for e few years now. But so happy you are still in great shape 😍😍
A very clear explanation on blade types and differences. If you want to show comparisons (like you attempt at the end of the video), make sure to take your time showing the cuts, display the cuts in a comparable manner and show any differences longer and clearer than in this video. Keep up the great work Steve
The cuts look the same. Not much else to show.
Best courses ever!
I'd go with the combination blade because of the included flat top raker for dados.
I learned something, thank you.
And know I am wondering how to know when to get a new blade?
Hey Steve. Love your channel! Wonder if you have any input on this topic as it applies to miter saw blades. Thanks!
Thank you 🙏
One Blade to rule them all, One Blade to find them;
One Blade to bring them all and in the woodshop bind them.
If I want to know something I go to you! Thank you for explaining things so well
I enjoyed this video and have enjoyed all your videos for quite some time. I downloaded your tool list but didn't see the handy crosscut miter fence. Do you have a link to that? I make my own crosscut sleds but they can take up a lot of room. Thank you and keep the videos coming.
Those angled teeth reminded me of something important: The opening shots of Twin Peaks :) I was thinking about the was these blades might be manufactured, cut from a thick sheet or steel and then the teeth sharpened to the desired form, then I remembered that Twin Peaks shows a lumber mill or something and there's a circular grinder thingy sharpening some blades, and it turn plus-minus some degrees between the teeth. Look it up if you know what I'm talking about :) (I'm talking the original opening for season 1 and 2, I haven't seen season 3 yet).
Can you please also give some checklist on when the blade needs to be sharpenned/replaced?
thank you!
I would love to hear what the main difference is between these types of blades (which you can buy at the local home center) and the more expensive ones around $100+ dollars, for instance amana, forrest, frued industrial. Do these high end blades really cut better than the more affordable options to justify the cost.
Perfect 👌🏻 thank you 😉
One thing that I learned was picking up a can of brake cleaner or laquer thinners and wash your saw blade around the teeth area to clean out the glues and saps that collect on the teeth of the blade you won't get wood burning or heating the saw blade as well as not needing to sharpen it as often since the glues and saps will gum up and slow down the blade and put a stress on your saw expressly if your cutting laminate flooring or plastics...
GREAT info steve. How do you know when to replace a saw blade?
Just the explanation I needed. Thanks!
This is useful, thanks. Big Orange has the Diablo 10” general purpose blades in stock for about $30 and combination blades for about $37. I like the idea of a flat bottom cut. I have a 80 tooth yellow blade on the saw for over a decade and this cements the decision to replace it with a more appropriate blade rather than sharpen it.
THANKS!!
I remember back in the 90s, my dad used to have a combo blade on his table saw, but if he was working on melamine shelve projects, he would switch to a melamine blade because it produced easier cuts, and he said that he could feel it when cutting. Fast-forward to now, I now use the same system, a combo blade and a quality blade for sheet goods.
I’ve been using a combination blade pretty much since I started woodworking and only start to get a worse quality cut when I continue to use it well beyond its productive life.