what bandsaw blades do you use ?

[Al killian]

My come from Lowes, American vermont I think. I have a old 10" Rockwell and with the junk wheels on it can only use a 1/4" blade. In a few weeks my metal wheel will be here then I can get a 3/4" blade on it.

[John Bartley]

I buy generic blades from R&D Band Saws (http://www.tufftooth.com/index.html). I don't use my band saw very much, so I can't say anything good or bad about the blades, but they are cheap, they cut fine when new and at the price I can buy two of them for one name brand, so I can't see why I won't keep using them. Also, the seller gives good service, ships what I order at the price on the order page and doesn't gouge on shipping.

cheers

[Dixon Peer]

I am currently using Olson blades. I find I can tension them to the max of the saw's ability and resaw 8" and more hardwoods without any perceivable drift. I'm using a 20" (roughly, as it's Italian and thus metric) Griggio 3 phase, 3 hp bandsaw and resawing with Olson 3/8" 3 tpi skip tooth blades.

[Corey Hallagan]

I have a new Sears Craftsman 12 inch band saw and have a couple of blades packaged for Craftsman... 3/8 and 1/4 blades. I ordered 4 Timberwolfs I got from Suffolk a 1/2 3TPI, 3/8 6TPI, 1/4 8 TPI and a 1/8 14TPI blades. I can compare the 3/8 blade and 1/4 blades at least to the Craftsman blades which cost me about the same price as the Timberwolfs. I bought 3 blades from Suffolk and got the 1/2" free.

Corey

[Jim Niemi]

We Use Starret Blades on our Resaw and band saw. they tend to last fairly long. we normily get around 8-10 hours out of one resaw blade.