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Hello my name is Alex, i am from Germany and I am reading here every day. Till now I did not post so much, just enyoing the show....

Question:

I bought some Ziricote lumber and I will resaw it by myself. I have a big bandsaw, and already made lots of experience with resawing BRW and other Dalbergias.
Till now i always used a bandsawblade from a German supplier, called HEMA, the band called HEMA IKARUS. It works fine, has a medium kerf and overall is for shure a good blade, but I am not satisfied with the quite fast glogging (clogging???)...well it gets too fast too dirty and slimey with wooddust and oils, so i always have to stop the saw, clean the blade with aceton and so on. It also dulls quite fast, well it is ok, but now i have to resaw some more.

So i want something better, I want to try the Woodmaster CT from Lenox.
I tried to order one blade via Internet, doesnt work. So I found out that Lenoy has a distributer here in Europe, in the Netherlands. They sent me a salesman, i had a ice coversation about bandsawblades, but he told me, unfortunatelly Lenox Europe has not the blade i want, the 27mm x 0,9mm with 1,3 TPI.
But he made contact to Lenox USA, and they would ship me some Blades. YUHUHUHUHHHHH,

BUT: The minimal order quantity is 5 blades, wich would cost me about 650 Euros, and thats quite a lot of money for me.

Can anybody recomment the Woodmaster CT for resawing Ziricote, or does it dull quickly? Does it clog fast?

Hoping for answers form the very nice and supertalentet people here....

Here a link of a guitar i built, just to prove that I am not a fake asking stupid Questions:
http://www.fiedler-guitars.de/fiedler/g ... index.html


You know, it is just awful lots of money for me for 5 sawblades, so I must be sure that they work well for my job.

Best Regards and wishes, alex

Have you tried using a blade lubricant?
http://www.amazon.com/Olson-Saw-Blade-Lubricant/dp/B000P4SK9E

Hi, thanks for the answer, Yes i tired al kinds of stuff, like destilated water, water with soap, teflonspray and so on. of course it worked some how, but not really good.

cheers, alex

Hello alex
i asked people on a uk woodwork forum where to get specificly
"woodmaster ct" blades in europe/uk
they gave me a few uk links but i havn't tried them yet

I think lenox sell other types of bades in uk but i was told....
your wasting your money with anything but carbide tipped
here is a link to the topic


http://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/leno ... 6728.htmll

hope this helps
tomas

Google bandsaw suppliers; I've ordered from several USA oufits without problems at all. Try U-Cut and/or Spectrum Supply. Both carry Lennox blades, both ship to Europe (well, to The Netherlands anyway).

Hi, i emaile d spectrum supply several times, they dont even answer....

I checked that link i gave you ..just incase if you didn't find it
heres a quote from link ...

" Allied Tooling in Poole have them. I have found them to be very helpful. "

Thanks, but somehow the link doesnt work with my computer, anyhow i will contact these guys, perhaps they can send me one.

But anyhow, i actually have a good suppliere for the Lenox woodmaster ct, i just have to take 5 pieces. So actually my question is not where to get them, more if they are suited for resawing ziricote, how many sets approximately i will get out of one blade life and so on.

thanks
, alex

Thanks, but somehow the link doesnt work with my computer, anyhow i will contact these guys, perhaps they can send me one.

But anyhow, i actually have a good suppliere for the Lenox woodmaster ct, i just have to take 5 pieces. So actually my question is not where to get them, more if they are suited for resawing ziricote, how many sets approximately i will get out of one blade life and so on.

thanks
, alex

Honestly? Pick up the phone and call. Often easier in the long run. It's how I've gotten the info I needed in the past.