My local yard now carries a brand called Tenyru (Chinese I think, but not sure). I’m using a finish blade on the 12″ slider (100 tooth ATAF) and a 10″ (50 tooth Rapid Cut combo) for the tablesaw. Am very pleased with both blades.
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Woodworker II is a nice blade. I also use a Ridge TS2000; Ridge was started by ex-Forrest people. I use a Chopmaster on on SCMS for finish work--it is clearly a better blade than the Freud, which seems prone to wobble and deflection.
I have a coated thincut Freud blade but it does not seem to do a very good job on cutting, perhaps because it is a thincut?
Edited 12/16/2006 1:02 pm ET by dickIII
Go to http://www.carbide.com
The site will guide you through a selection process to come up with a list of potential blades for your application. They sell Amana, CMT, FS Tool, Everlast, and Tenryu, among others. I'm partial to FS Tool. Industrial quality. Fair prices. Equal to Forrest in my opinion. There is a sale now on FS Tool 10-inch combination blades for the table saw. Around fifty bucks for either a 50-tooth or 60-tooth model.
try Japanese.
huge difference from "made in China" and "made in Japan."
Depends on what you are going to be ripping. If you are going to be ripping a lot of thick stock then go for less teeth in the blade. For thick stock I use a Freud LM71M010 10" x 18-Tooth Industrial Thick Stock Rip Blade. That blade rips very fast and with minimum stress on the motor. The sawdust is a little shaggy and sometimes clogs the exhaust port.
The Forrest blade would be better for thinner stock.
Thin kerf blades with more than 40 teeth are likely to warp if you rip thick stock.