I fired up the bandsaw to cut a few african blackwood scraps into guitar pick thickness. Then when I got done I thought about doing it to some ebony fingerboard scraps too, so I held the scrap to the bandsaw to gauge thickness, and then I accidentally caught the corner of the wood to the blade as it's slowing down. In about a millisecond the blade jumped, ripped a chunk off of the ebony, and somehow wedged itself inside the lower guide. By the time I was able to free the band I noticed the blade was severely bent and kinked!
I tried straightening it but it won't straighten at all (and I think it will probably break soon too). Because of that it now cuts badly.
That's another 60+ dollars down the drain...
I have some carbon steel blade stocks but I stopped using them because they would dull relatively quickly...