Why Choose a Tungsten Carbide Tipped Saw Blade

Tungsten carbide-tipped saw blades can cut almost everything from asbestos to Zirconium, including paper, plastics, rubber, steel, insulation, aluminum, and even food, as well as every kind of wood in the world and all the wood composites. 

Considering the carbide-tipped blade's accuracy, finish, tool life, cost and safety choose suitable blades.

“Which blade should I use for what job? How do I make the right choice?” If you are into cutting tough or abrasive materials, or if high surface finish quality is critical then a Carbide Tipped saw blade will do the job. 

Carbide Blade Teeth are wider than the body of the blade and typically have no set. Where the teeth on steel blades are ground on the front, carbide teeth are ground saw on their tops as well as their fronts and sides. The basic rule is the more teeth the finer the cut, but you also have to consider the thickness of the cut and the cutting feed rate. The fine tooth sawblades do tend to leave a smoother finish because each tooth takes a smaller bite. However, if the material is too thick, or if it is being fed at a high rate, the gullet capacity of a fine-toothed blade is too small.

There are two primary factors to consider when deciding whether to purchase carbide-tipped blades. Those two factors are cost and durability. The durability of a carbide-tipped blade comes from tungsten carbide. This is one type of incredibly hard material.

Tungsten carbide-tipped blades last up to 10 times longer than steel blades. And the cost is three times as much as for buying steel counterparts. If you’re cutting tough hardwoods or man-made materials such as particleboard, melamine, MDF (medium density fiberboard), or laminates then you’ll be better off in the long run with carbide-tipped blades.

Safety is important as smooth and successful output to remember before operating a chop or band saw machine to avoid shop accidents. Like any other power tool, accidents are preventable by simply using common sense by avoiding the use of hazardous techniques.