Chipped tooth on TS2000 blade

[Scott Whiting]

For the price of a new blade just send it on over here an I'll see you get taken care of

More serious answer: If you can take a picture of the chip and send it to me or post it I can most likely tell if you can wait until the blade is dull before you send it off to have it fixed or it's possible you may never need to replace the tooth.

[Bill Bryant]

For the price of a new blade just send it on over here an I'll see you get taken care of

More serious answer: If you can take a picture of the chip and send it to me or post it I can most likely tell if you can wait until the blade is dull before you send it off to have it fixed or it's possible you may never need to replace the tooth.

I can't take a photo of it, but I can describe it. The TS2000 has three kinds of teeth. Some rake to the left, some to the right, and some are flat and rake both sides. The chipped tooth rakes the right side of the kerf and the chipped out area is on the left. The chip looks like someone took a bite out of the left, non-raking corner of the tooth.

[CPeter James]

Send it back to Ridge. get it sharpened and they will replace the tooth for $5.00. At least that is what I paid to have one fixed year ago. It came back better than new.

John really knows his stuff.

CPeter

[Tom Walz]

There are maybe 50 to 100 really top end tool shops in the country. These folks are the best of the best at tool design, manufacture and repair. Scott is definitely one of these although I don’t imagine he would ever say so.

Something to consider is that repairing a blade is different than making it new in many ways. Shops, such as Scott’s, sharpen industrial tools from major plants and see thousands of different styles of tools that have all sorts of damage done to them. This gives them a depth and breadth of expertise hard to find elsewhere.

Ridge is an excellent company but, if you are lucky enough to know a truly excellent sharpener you can generally get a job as good for the same price and much faster.