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Showerthought: My best build day started with a broken jigsaw blade
I was cutting some tricky curves for a built-in shelf and snapped my last blade. Instead of running to the store, I tried a metal cutting blade I had from an old project. It cut the plywood cleaner than the wood blade ever did. Has anyone else had a tool work better for a job it wasn't made for?
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webb.hannah1mo ago
Metal blades for wood are a game changer.
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ray_burns1mo ago
My buddy tried a bi-metal blade on some old, pitchy pine after seeing @claire_ross61 mention them. He said it went through like butter where his old blade would have just smoked and stuck. He cut a whole stack of that sticky wood and the teeth still looked sharp. It was the first time he finished a big job without stopping to clean pitch off the blade.
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ray_burns27d ago
The Diablo 10-inch bi-metal blade is the one he used. It has those special teeth that stay sharp and just push the pitch out instead of letting it build up. He said it cut through knots in that pine without slowing down at all. It's a bit more money upfront but you save so much time not cleaning or changing blades.
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What kind of metal blade was it, like a bi-metal one? I've heard those can handle wood without gumming up as fast. Did you notice it lasting longer than a regular wood blade?
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