Cutting a vein

[SteveS]

Couple of beginner questions. When cutting a vein in a project do you change blade size?  Second and probably more important, when you end a vein cut how do you extricate the blade? Back it out or stop and remove the blade? Thanks for your time. Steve

[trackman]

I usually keep the blade running an back out. With it running it won’t hang up in the cut. If I want a wider vein what I do is cut the vein with a normal blade then change out the blade for a spiral blade. It will follow the previous cut an the spiral blade will make a wider vein. 

[dgman]

The thickness of the vein is up to you. If it seems to thin, go over it with a thicker blade or, even a spiral blade. I would recommend you try it on some scrap wood before attempting on your work piece. You can always make it thicker, but you can never make it thinner. If you are careful, it’s easier to back the blade out while the saw is running. If the blade doesn’t want to back out, it’s ok to stop the saw and remove the blade. This is where a saw with a lifting top arm comes in handy. Just loosen the bottom blade clamp, and raise the arm.

[kmmcrafts]

It really depends on the blade I'm using as to whether I back the blade up or not. ( probably not an issue if you feed the blade through from the top.. ). The FD - UR blades have that notch at the top of them and it's hard to get it through the thin cut so if I'm using those blades then i back it out.. otherwise to me it's just a waist of time to back it out.. Most all the veining I do is I first cut with straight blade then go to the 2/0 FD-NS blade to widen it ..  

[SteveS]

Thanks for the replies.

[tomsteve]

i dont change blades for vein cuts. what i do do,though, is drill the entrance hole along the vein instead of at the end. i feather the edges of the vein at the entrance hole to make it disappear. widens the vein a bit there but i think its looks better than seeing a small hole at the end of a vein.

[NC Scroller]

I sometimes drill a pilot hole on both ends of a vein line. I have also used various size blades depending on how thick or thin you want line. There is no right way or wrong way.

Edited June 23, 2020 by NC Scroller
Dang auto correct.