Bring your blade guides in, slow down your feed rate, and rotate your work piece 90° it will help with blade longevity and prevent you from stripping teeth.

It seems like a linear feed rate.

Thanks 🙂@@woodandmetalshoptime8048

Have not tried another saw blade yet. I've been busy rearranging my shop to make room for the CNC Plasma table coming in a couple months. I got a couple spare blades from Grizzly when I bought the saw, and I need to put one of them on and check those out. Also need to find a source for Lenox or other quality blades...

You're welcome

For sure. Quality of the blade matters, too, and I think the blade on the saw was as cheap as they come.

@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 the blade is important. The one or 2 comes in the packages is nuts. Buy a good blade and adjust it nicly then the saw make accurate cuts. In Germany we have other brands of this saw but every one comes from the same factory in china. look at the details and adjustments for the blade.

and by the way . moving a saw like this (10:50) is not a good idea. don´t move it on this way. you cn break the holr thing. move it on the machine bed

I'm using Lennox blades now, much better.

@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 the great thing about blade serpent is they carry a multitude of pitch variations and also have the die master series blades.

I wish I had the floor space for that saw.

What is a good source for those brand blades?

@@woodandmetalshoptime8048 Got mine from MSC Industrial, you might try Ebay though, probably way cheaper. As far as I know Lenox and Irwin are the same, so ones as good as the other. I have an Irwin on the saw right now, and it's been the best blade that has ever been on that saw, and I've had the saw since 1986.

I don’t know if your still looking but I always order my blades from bandsaw blades direct.

You can also get blades from McMastercarr.

As a machinist of 30 years, you are wrong. You want as many teeth possible in contact with material in a horizontal band saw. This avoids breaking a tooth and stripping a section. Chop saws work better on edge to dissipate heat. Good luck to you

@@eiserntorsphantomoftheoper2154well, it depends on the shape of the bar. You should know, as a machinist of 30 years (I’ve been doing it for 50) that you only need a few teeth in the cut. Maybe you learned incorrectly. Yes, there are times when you have to cut horizontally. But you don’t do that unless the part is too wide to stand up.

@@melgross You are a fool.

As a machinist of 100 years, I can assure you that you're both wrong. You want zero teeth on the cut.

I will say, after using this saw for a couple years, it turned out better than I expected. Yeah, the build quality isn't there, but the mitering capability has turned out to be very useful. And, above all, getting GOOD blades is a game changer. I ordered some Lenox blades and they make all the difference. Would I buy it again? Maybe, if only for the mitering function and the rest of the machine is comparable to every other metal bandsaw of it's type.