Saw Blade Sharpening Services

The only circular saw blades that I resharpen are the ones for my Festool. All of the others are disposable in my opinion.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

I had a local guy in NJ sharpen mine and I loved the cut.

My table saw blades ar 16” and cost about 300.00 to buy new so I get them sharpened. I have about 4 different designed blades that I get sharpened.

I’m currently taking them to a local sharpener about 25 miles from my home.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

These are molding mills around here so there are several carbide sharpening shops locally. Forrest offers sharpening services so does our local Woodcraft.

-- Sharp tools and thin whispy shavings make woodworking a joy.

Highland Woodworking, in Atlanta, offers mail-in sharpening service. Haven’t personally used them but their advertised prices look reasonable.

JimC

i use a local guy so it’s drop off, but he’s reasonable and dependable
i’ll pm you his phone # if you want to quiz him on mail in service

-- Ron, Missouri

Ridge Carbide and Forrest both have excellent reputations in the NE. If I lived closer to the SW, or had 2 or more to send, I’d ship them to Scott Whiting in AZ.

I tried a local service once with my Forrest blade….it cut well but they sure took a lot of carbide off.

ChunkyC,
I don’t know what part of Iowa your out of but mail service wouldn’t matter. I use America Grinding & Sales, LLC in Kansas City, MO. Rusty Lloyd is the owner operator and has very reasonable prices. I have not had any sharpening done in about a year so I don’t know if prices have changed. Roughly, up to 40 teeth it’s $1 per inch diameter, so much a tooth above that. Sharpening bills over a certain $ were free return shipping. All my blades were returned dipped in protective coating for the teeth. Jointer blades were only a few dollars. Hope this helps.
Oh, he sells new from about everybody out there too. 6in Jointer blades were going to cost 80.00 retail, found on-line for 49, got harder blades from America for 24.00. Just an idea of how good this place is. Rusty knows his HSS and Carbide.
Contact for them, 1-800-304-6844 or www.americagrinding-sales.com
I hate to sound like a salesman but I couldn’t be happier with them.

I agree with above comment, Circular Saw blades are generally disposable. I keep a few beat up ones around for demo work or cuts I’m pretty sure may have debris in them. Wear lots of safety gear and the same time. Any questions, I don’t mind PM’s. May take awhile to answer.

As for sharping cir saw blades. I totally agree, they are just about disposable. However, I like to send them in to be resharpened to check out new sharping service places. I would rather send in a cir saw blade and not be happy with it than to send in a $100 + t/s blade and have it mangled. Think of it as a litmus test of sorts, try them out on stuff that’s fairly inexpensive.

I think my only viable option is to send it out for sharping. You never know, maybe someone around here knows a guy that knows a guy that …

Thanks guys. I’ll be checking out these links!

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-- Chunk

test drive with a cheap blade!!
wow, sharp idea (groan) sorry
it is a great idea

-- Ron, Missouri

Check with the local cabinet shop and see were they send theirs.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

I have my own cabinet shop and went the rounds on the sharpening circuit. They either took to long to sharpen the blades or the blades were done very poorly.
I went out and spent the money on sharpening equipment and now do several other peoples blades besides my own.
My sharpening equipment consist of tools for circular saw and jointer carbide and steel blades, HSS planer and joiner knives, plus others.
To have a good result, all carbides are sharpened with a diamond sharpening wheel and the edge last a long time and gives a great cut.

-- Eric, Illinois, www.wooddesignsbyeric.com