I just purchased a couple of Freud 10" "Industrial" grade sawblades - one for crosscuts and one for ripping. The crosscut blade, which is labelled as the "ultimate cutoff saw" or something to that effect, makes an excellent smooth crosscut. I'm very pleased with it.
The rip blade is a 1/8" 30-tooth "GLUELINE", and I can't rip cherry without burning it.
I checked fence and blade parallellism and opened it up a little, but that didn't help. The blade was set about 1/4" clear above the workpiece. I made several rips on three different cherry boards from my scrap pile and the blade burned all of them. I ripped a piece of pine 2x4 and a piece of oak with the same settings and got no burn. I changed the blade to a Freud Industrial combination blade, and re-ripped the cherry, with no burns.
I used push sticks without hold-downs or featherboards on some of the cuts, and two Grip-Tite magnetic featherboards (mounted on the fence) on other cuts, and none of that changed the results. I think I eliminated the saw (Delta contractor), parallelism with the fence, and my technique as being the problem, although I'm open to suggestions.
I've read posts indicating people have had similar problems with the Forrest WW 2, which is a high-end blade. The answer may be that the smoother-cutting blades just aren't suited to ripping cherry.
I know that cherry burns easily, but the results I'm getting with the Freud aren't acceptable and my plan at this point is to return the blade and go back to using a combination blade. Any suggestions or comments?