Resawing Help

[Mike Goetzke]

I'm not a rookie but also not the most experienced at resawing. I have a Grizzly G0513X2, with a Laguna Driftmaster fence, and 3/4" Laguna Resaw King blade (love this combo). I was resawing some ash today. It was about 3" tall. Of coarse on the last board seemed like all of the sudden the blade started chopping/jumping and I couldn't feed anywhere near as fast as the other cuts. Plus it wasn't cutting a perfect straight line like the other cuts. Could the blade be dull? I'm guessing overall I put maybe 200' to 300' of wood maybe 4" tall on average through it. If it's dull where can I get this carbide tooth blade re-sharpened?

Thanks,

Mike


Edit/Add: I had a second Resaw King and put it on and it's doing the same thing. Cutting aggressively then stops - repeats. I checked the guides and all seems fine.

[Davis Young]

Don't have a diagnosis as I don't have experience with the Resaw King but was the second one you put on a new blade? I have taken my Lenox Woodmaster CT to Daily Saw Service in South Gate, CA (LA suburb). They charge about $3.50/ft any tpi for carbide tipped.

[John TenEyck]

Sounds like the wood is closing on the blade or you are feeding faster than the gullets can clear out the sawdust.

John

[Mike Goetzke]

OK - even though I got through my last couple cuts the BS was bothering me. I went and took off all the roller blade guides and cleaned them up well and put everything together. I tried to tension the blade using the flutter method in the manual and recommended by Laguna but it was strange. Grizzly says to tension between 4 & 5 on the scale and back off till it flutters and tighten to stop flutter plus 1/4 turn. It turned out to be about 5-1/2. But the blade or saw was making a resonance noise. So I backed the tension and I was down to 2 on the scale and the blade still was not fluttering (first attempt the flutter became well pronounces at about 3-1/2). I was afraid to de-tension any further. I was learning too much about my BS today. So I tensioned to 5, set up the guides, and tried a cut on a 5-1/2" tall piece of oak and it cut well (I didn't have any ash around to try). So maybe I'm in the clear now - at least I hope I am.


Thanks,

Mike

[Mike Goetzke]

Sounds like the wood is closing on the blade or you are feeding faster than the gullets can clear out the sawdust.

John

I was wondering this too since it only happened on my last board.

[Andrew Hughes]

My guess is your board wasn't laying flat on the table and the blade was pulling it down flat.Plus the throat plate was flexing.

[Nelson Howe]

When the time comes, you can get it resharpened at Laguna. I really liked the finish off the resaw king. It didn't last as long as the lennox wood master. But then, the woodmaster can't (or is difficult to) be resharpened.

Nelson

[jerry cousins]

the times i have felt the blade lurching & jumping i usually find the start of a crack in one of the gullets. then i have it cut out and welded.
you can download the form for resharpening off of the laguna webiste - it's usually a pretty quick turnaround.
jerry