Circular saw blade sharpening

[BigBertie]

Is anyone able to suggest somewhere in north Essex or south Cambridgeshire that can sharpen tungsten tipped circular saw blades please?
Thanks!

 

[Myfordman]

Google? Suggests haydens

 

[timber]

Is anyone able to suggest somewhere in north Essex or south Cambridgeshire that can sharpen tungsten tipped circular saw blades please?
Thanks!

May I also suggest that the blades used for cross cuts do not have too much hook---if any.
Regards
Timber

 

[Roxie]

Bedford Saw, Ampthill Road, Bedford.

An excellent service, just had a couple done along with mitre guillotine blades.

John

 

[mbartlett99]

Thats a second for Bedford Saw.

 

[Distinterior]

Here are a couple - http://haydenssawsltd.co.uk/ in Braintree

and this one is just over the border into Suffolk http://www.ipswichplastics.co.uk/home

I use Ipswich Plastics for my saw blade & router cutter sharpening.

Tim.

 

[Ttrees]

Does anyone do this themselves ?
Will be very much interested in this topic in future .
Thanks

 

[custard]

Does anyone do this themselves ?
Will be very much interested in this topic in future .
Thanks

Thirty odd years ago, when HSS saw blades were more common, people frequently sharpened their own, or did three or four interim sharpenings followed by an occasional trip to the saw doctor.

With TC tipped blades it's less common, some woodworkers might lightly refresh the edge themselves with a diamond hone, but generally it's straight to a specialist saw sharpener. One of the reasons is that saw sharpeners generally charge you more if you've done the job yourself and not got it dead on, they claim it then takes them longer to correct the geometry. Another thing to bear in mind is that a circular saw is really part of a system that also involves the riving knife, so you really do want to keep all the critical dimensions accurate.

 

[Distinterior]

Does anyone do this themselves ?
Will be very much interested in this topic in future .
Thanks

I bought one of these off E _- Y http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262693812292?rmvSB=true a couple of years back, thinking it would save me having to send my blades away to be sharpened.

I tried it on a couple of old blades first and it seemed ok-ish, but it does take a lot of faffing to get it set up correctly as the quality of the screws/nuts/bolts etc are quite poor. I had a feeling this was going to be the case as soon as I un-wrapped the thing, coz they sent just about a complete set of every nut/bolt/washer as a SPARE in little zip-lock bags.
Overall, its a bit flimsy and after you have taken an age to adjust everything, it still seems to have a bit of a mind of its own.

I have yet to pluck up the courage to try and sharpen any of my Festool blades on it or any of my Dewalt Series 60 blades.

Tim.

 

[RogerBoyle]

I've got the Sealey version of the above and love it. It takes longer for me to package it up and get it ready to send out for sharpening than to just sharpen them. I've not sent any blades out for sharpening now for almost a year before I was sending a blade out every two or three weeks.
I've saved enough now that I can happily buy more blades with the money that I've saved.

It is a faff the first few times that you use it and like everything else there is a technique to using it. Practise on a blade that's nearing the end of its life and when you've got a feel for using it then use it on your better blades

If only there was something that was as cheap for doing planer Blades LOL

 

[Distinterior]

I've got the Sealey version of the above and love it. It takes longer for me to package it up and get it ready to send out for sharpening than to just sharpen them. I've not sent any blades out for sharpening now for almost a year before I was sending a blade out every two or three weeks.
I've saved enough now that I can happily buy more blades with the money that I've saved.

It is a faff the first few times that you use it and like everything else there is a technique to using it. Practise on a blade that's nearing the end of its life and when you've got a feel for using it then use it on your better blades

If only there was something that was as cheap for doing planer Blades LOL

Roger,

Do you use it to sharpen blades that are all the same size...?? or do the sizes vary?

I have a few blades that are different diameters (plunge saws, table saw, RAS, SCMS etc) all with different hole centre sizes and all with different amounts of teeth. Its the individual setting up times that makes it a PITA as well as the slightly wobbly centre post/spindle IMHO.

 

[RogerBoyle]

I use mine to sharpen all different sized blades
My smallest blades are my scoring blades which have a 20mm bore and are 1oomm diameter to my 315 mm panel saw blades which have a 30mm bore

The spindle on mine is quite solid and it will only wobble if I'm really heavy handed As regards the setup I leave it on my table saw settings so I only have to adjust for the amount of teeth and that only takes me around a minute to do.
I've just timed myself with setting up for my 48 tooth blade for my tracksaw. It took me 4 mins to get the jig out and reset it for this blade. Another minute and a half to sharpen. and the blade is now ready to go into the saw. I then spent 3 mins setting it back up for my 315mm 96 tooth blade before I put it away

I have found that shinning a strong light onto the teeth when setting up the angles etc. helps and does speed up the process

Roger

 

[MattRoberts]

I sharpen my blades myself using a dremel with a diamond wheel, and a home made jig. Works a treat, and has repeatable accuracy

 

[BigBertie]

Thanks for the advice everyone. In fact in the end I did go to Hayden Saws in Braintree. It's a little old fashioned Saw workshop and they helped me out.
BigBertie