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Debate: Does a fresh brick saw blade cut faster or is it just me? Had a job last Thursday where my old blade was dragging bad.
I swapped to a NEW blade halfway through a wall on a patio in Austin and suddenly I was cutting through pavers like butter. But my foreman swears a broken-in blade is smoother and lasts longer. Which side do you guys lean on for production work?
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jamiekim1d ago
Your foreman's right that broken-in blades last longer, but fresh cuts faster every time for production work. That drag you felt was just the blade being dull, not "broken in." Save the old ones for demo work, grab a new one for clean cuts on flagstone.
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parker54314h agoMost Upvoted
You say "save the old ones for demo work" but how many cuts are you talking before a blade is actually "broken in"? If it's only a couple dozen cuts, swapping blades for every job seems like a waste of time even for production work. I'm trying to figure out the real cost tradeoff between blade life and cutting speed.
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