Do Dressing Sticks Work? // Testing Lapidary Saw Blade Sharpening Sticks
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2022
- These dressing sticks are often recommended by people and manufacturers as a way to sharpen or clean up your lapidary blades. Well, let's put them to the test and see if they perform as suggested.
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Here's an anecdote: my new rigid saw was fairly chippy. I didn't have an adaptor/ reducer to put my higher quality blade on (1" hole. Rigid is 5/8). I decided to dress with a coarse diamond stone. Not knowing what I was doing, I did the sides for maybe like 4 seconds each, as well as the leading edge. After that the blade didn't cut. Like, making sparks on porcelain... but It seemed to start to cut after a few seconds. So I then "dressed" with a chunk of concrete. After that I pushed through a scrap of tile and what I saw made me laugh. It cut absolutely cleanly. I thought I ruined the cheap rigid blade that came with my saw, but it's cutting like a freaking laser. Edge looks factory without a single tiny chip.
I do tiling for over 25 years, today I used a dressing stone on my blades Hilti, Festool, Sigma and Montolit continuous, turbo and meshed blades (4.5 and 5 inches), it worked fantastically, I tested on ceramic and porcelain before and after. In my job I guess is a little different, I think there’s a lot of debris from burned ceramics and all kind of materials that I cut and the dressing stone clean that debris while also exposing some diamonds. Also what worked for me in the past is is taking the blade off and grinding it with a flap disc, but just a gentle touch alll around, that took about 5 min and I was able to have nice clean cut, but of course a special dressing stone is much better, bricks and other similar stuff never worked for me
I did tile work for year. Lots of new house construction. When I was ready to dress the blade and I couldn't find my white tile running stone. I used stucco mud. It's just sand and cement. It would dress the blade quickly. And I actually preferred it over the rubbing block.
Who uses “dressing sticks”? I dress the old fashioned way, 1 leg at a time.
Maybe you oughta put out the call for some junky notched blades and see if they can be restored with these/other methods. If they don't work, nobody's lost anything. If it does work, you could return it to the sender sort-of restored.
I thought Dressing sticks were designed for Grinding wheels? Never mind just saw you say for grinding wheels lmao
I did the bastard file approach and it worked great! It took 2 times of striking the front edge of the blade rather hard and I am using this blade currently, well beyond what I have experienced before. There is no doubt that the bastard (i love saying that) file works and works well.
I love the effort you go to, nice whiteboard with infographics. As a newbie I really appreciate it.
I use the carborundum sharpening block and run my blade through it 5 times. Cuts like new.
Hey Jared, excellent work man. Loved this experiment. I wonder how long the blade stays dressed once you dress it. It probably depends on what you are cutting I guess. But overall I 100% buy your assessment that not much improvement or gain with the dressing strips. 👍
❤️tysm for clearing this all up for me.
Interesting topic , always enjoy your experiments, thank you 😊 for sharing 😊💙
Thanks I needed that
"And everybody wins".....Yes we certainly do! Thanks for another informative video Jared.
Jared! Thank you for sharing this great info!
So helpful - thank you!!
Awesome video Jared! I truly appreciate these type of tests and Mythbusting.
Dude, I love your enthusiasm :) I don't do gem work. All my work is on cutting bottles, but I've still learned a lot from what you've shown. Keep up the good work!
Just found your channel. I love how thorough and informative you are n your personality ties it all together. You’re killing it man i rly appreciate your videos n all your footnotes !! Looking forward to the new videos !