So a while back I was hemming and hawing about just actually buying a real table saw. I bought one at a yardsale years ago an old Craftsman 7” that really was a piece of crap. Then I found a better 10” one with a real fence for $40 at a yardsale last year. Didn’t jump on a Ryobi for forty bucks that I saw a couple months later so I’m still stuck with that $40 find. It’s decent I guess - and I’ve been wondering upgrade or just try buying a new blade.
Well - in a pinch to do the trim for the bedroom I forked over forty bucks for a Freud Diablo blade. My climbing-partner-carpenter Matthew recommended them to me last year I think. So I took off the old blade and put on the red Diablo finish blade I got (I figure I could always use the crap rough blade I had for any cross-cutting or just down-n-dirty cutting so I went with more of a finish blade of the half-dozen or so options they had in 10” blades). Then went to cut my first piece of LDF trim.
Holy. Cow.
It was like a searing-hot Wüstof blade through warm butter. I mean for realz ... totally a different saw with a nice blade on it. I haven’t been this excited for a while. Well - about power tools. It may seem obvious but I was dubious ... not anymore - the blade makes all the difference. No new table saw necessary.
And while I was at it - I got a nice new 12” finish blade for my compound miter ...
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