cjswoodcrafts Posted July 3, 2011 Report Share Posted July 3, 2011 Wood is 1/2 inch sandeply (home depot special) used a spiral blade to cut it, size is 3 foot by 18 inches sides routed customer to pick up tomorrow, will do her own painting or staining on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfmoonCT Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 I tried some spiral blades tonight. Wanted to see how they did for cutting the portrait Jolette made me months ago.. Didn't like the finish they left in the 1/4" BB. Gonna stick to a #2/0R blade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWSUDEKUM Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Nice work on the sign. I am sure she will like it. WolfmoonCT try the spiral new reverse blades. They leave a cleaner kerf. DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatie Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 Nice work Jim Marg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfmoonCT Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 That's what I was using DW. took me 4 tries just to get the blades to stay in the blade holder on the DW788 saw. I would tighten it down, move the tension to 3.5 and the bottom blade wold pop out. So when I did get it to hold, I still wasn't impressed with the cut. seems that even the paper pattern it was tearing. I'll just stick with the 2/0R blades for now. They left a glass smooth cut. May even go to just a 2R on the larger areas where i can use larger holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjswoodcrafts Posted July 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 thanks everone for the comments, thing about spirals is 1 the blade holder has to br reallllllly tightened. and the break more then reg blades, we went thru 10 blades just thank God that a guy that was selling stuff across from me saturday gave me a pack of spiral (ryobi) blades, lol he mustve thought i would use them soon.. next big sign i make, will quote a price plus the price for blades. the couple picked up order, pic below Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWSUDEKUM Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 I really do not have any serious issues with spirals other then the fact that you are totally responsible for the direction it cuts. I do not know if you straighten out the ends 1st or not but I do and make them so that both ends are in the same plane .. that way I do not have to tighten any harder than I would a normal flat blade. It seems to work for me on my 788. DW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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