Originally Posted by
RezDog
I don’t have a big hardware supply to buy from and my selection is limited locally, and everything else is mail order. Your typical ripping blade is a fat blade with large teeth and it will take a very wide kerf. If I’m ripping a ton of long boards that’s what I use. However if I am taking thin sliced off short block of expensive wood, I typically choose the bandsaw. If my son was visiting and broke my bandsaw blade for ripping and I had to use the table saw, then I would use a laminate floor blade, because the rake on the teeth is different, it has a thin kerf and makes a smooth cut. Make sure it’s very sharp, and go slow. That is my go to blade for messing with hard wood like yew or arbutus. A well set up bandsaw beats a table saw for making nice fine cuts.