{"id":7,"date":"2004-03-16T01:34:26","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T08:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:12:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:12:16","slug":"your-new-tablesaw-blade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/your-new-tablesaw-blade\/","title":{"rendered":"Your new tablesaw blade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I&#8217;ve been meaning to talk to you about this for a while.  You know that tablesaw blade you&#8217;ve got?  Yeah, I know it&#8217;s carbide.  I know it&#8217;s supposed to last forever.  I realize it&#8217;s reshapenable dozens of times.  It&#8217;s made of compressed meterorites hand-culled from the Oort nebula. That&#8217;s wonderful.  Take it off, hang it on the wall, and save it for when your friend comes over to borrow the table saw.<br \/>\nNo go buy yourself an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000223KU\/personworks-20\/\">80 tooth blade of reasonable quality<\/a>.  Use it for basically anything involving hardwoods in reasonable shape.  Let me summarize this way: a $400 table saw with a new 80-tooth blade cuts better than an $800 table saw with a crappy low-tooth-count blade.<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t abuse the blade too badly, you&#8217;ll find your saw has miraculously started producing perfect, glossy-smooth cuts ready for a glue line.  When you&#8217;re working with nail-filled dirt-covered twisted two-by-fours, switch back to the old Oort 18-toother.  You&#8217;ll thank me for it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s some middle ground between the crappy blade that comes with your saw and the gorgeous shimmery cuts produced by sterling 80-toother, but frankly I don&#8217;t want to keep dropping $50 bucks a blade to find out.  With my Oort 18 and Freud 80 I can handle anything.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me summarize this way: a $400 table saw with a new 80-tooth blade cuts better than an $800 table saw with a crappy low-tooth-count blade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danshapiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}