I have ten or so good teeth left in my little 3" table saw blade. But it's useless for its original purpose.
So I'm wondering, what to do with it? I can sweat off the carbide tips.
I could use one for the edge of a 1/16" wide chisel. :) Braze it onto a piece of steel shaped for the purpose... one for paring (thin and long), one for mortising (fat and hard).
What else?
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Gee, I thought I was cheap!
Save the rest for replacements for those chisels.
Grind one thin for the cutter for a marking guage or a striking knife--assuming you have the diamond tools needed to do that.
wondering, what to do with it?
You can braze the tips onto steel rods and make your own tools for hollow turning.
wondering, what to do with it?
Hmm, a lathe is on my wishlist... it'll be a metal lathe, though. Not that I won't be using it for small wood stuff.
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That's good... and cheap? These tips are about $3 each!
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If one day you chip a tooth, glue a carbide in. Amaze you friends and gain their admiration when you gnaw a rough stick into a beautiful spindel.
Pete :)
Probably not a good use for a chisel. They would most likely shatter after a few blows and would be hard to get as sharp as a regular chisel.
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Recovering the teeth from a worn-out sawblade is the cheap part.
The sort of cheapness I admire, in fact.
At least the paring chisel will be okay, and with such a small cutting surface I shouldn't need so much force as to require a mallet.
And... it'll be sharper than any other 1/16" chisel I have. :)
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Here's a story about a guy making a living working with recycled hand saw blades:
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