Thread: Clipping the Toe

Originally Posted by outback

The blade will shatter, guaranteed. You might want to put a bevel in it, and see how much width you have left before shortening it.
You may find there's not much to cut off by then. JMHO

I would set the bevel to at least 90% before I did anything else. No use making it perfect at that time. Then I would grind the toe off if there was enough left for an edge. Dipping it in water frequently! The amount of "cold" that would be in the steel from freezing would be heated up in a very short time. That is if the teeth of the band saw didn't break off in the first few seconds. starting at the spine. At the bevel it would shatter the blade.

Maybe if you had 2,000 teeth per inch it wouldn't shatter them....