- Welcome back, Josh, today
it's my turn to talk
you are usually the tool guru,
but this time I know something that you don't.
Jigsaw Blades.
- I know I have a lot of Lenox.
- Lenox blades about three weeks ago
I went to visit the,
I went on a plant tour to visit the Lenox plant,
where they make blades,
and Lenox makes really high end jigsaw blades,
recip saw blades, band saw blades,
there's kind of like the Cadillac of blades.
And what they were showing off,
is their new jigsaw blades.
The wood, they have wood and metal,
and they kind of just revamped the whole line
and they were good to begin with.
- Yeah you can't go wrong with Lenox.
- No, they make great blades.
So, what they did with the wood one,
they kind of just reconfigured the way the teeth were.
And they did, they have this things called
a power blast, so they made the tang stronger,
and...
What it is, is they literally it's just like a
kind of like a, when you blast something
like a sand blasting thing
except they take little ceramic beads
and they blast the tang and what it does
it actually kind of compresses a little bit.
You have to see it, it's really small dimples.
But it makes it twice as strong or something,
It way way more stronger, so it's
much less likely to break.
And...
Then they, yeah, they reconfigured the teeth
on these wood blades and they showed-
- I was gonna say, those look like a mini shark teeth.
- Oh those things are crazy. - They look sharp.
- So the, yeah, so the things that you,
I mean you can barely touch,
so,
oddly enough, what I learned a little fun fact is
this is called a fleam cut,
or fleam grind and I don't know if they
did that as a joke,
but you can barely touch these things
without cutting your, bleeding yourself.
And if you look it up,
fleam stands,
you 'member back in the day, when you were young,
and they still did blood letting?
- That was not long ago.
- That tool that they used for blood letting
was called a fleam.
So this thing, I don't know if it's a joke,
like say you pick it up and you cut,
you know, there's
a blood letting situation. - Yeah.
- But we demonstrated it on the, they
stacked three or four pieces of laminate,
really really tough hard laminate flooring.
And you cut through that it'll ruin a blade just like that.
And they cut with this one and they cut
with a Bosch, I'll say Bosch, 'cuz Bosch makes great blades
I've got tons of 'em.
And this the Bosch burned like
all blades would, it burned and it smoked
and this one burned a little bit,
but it was faster ,it was less smoke
it was a really clean cut.
- It looks like with the teeth design
that are on there - Yup.
- How they're back and forth it's really cool.
- And that's the fleam deal.
But yeah, it was and it was new
it was a legit deal, they let us try it.
So that was a metal blade,
That was a wood blade - Wood blade.
But I noticed, Mark, in the middle they got a metal blade
and if you look in here,
- Yeah.
- It's actually, I'm putting a straight edge on it,
It's actually got a curve to it,
you can lightly see that.
- That's an arc.
- Arc.
- It's called the power arc, and yes,
that's exactly right.
So they reconfigured the teeth a little bit,
and they added the power arc and what that does
is...
It changes kind of the angle of attack,
you know how you're sawing something,
you don't saw the same way through the whole-
- Angle of attack.
- So when you're sawing through a board,
not too many people do that anymore,
with a hand saw, but back in my day
Occasionally we used a saw.
So when using a saw,
you don't just go the same way,
you kind of go this way,
and you go this way,
and it just cuts better.
- Yeah.
- So that's kinda the same concept of this,
it's always kind of attacking the wood
or the metal, in this case, from a different angle.
And...
When I said metal, that reminds me,
they didn't do the power arc on the wood blade,
because these are really fine
there are for fine wood working projects,
and you don't and this is kind of an aggressive cut,
so you don't want a wood blade cutting that aggressively
'cuz it'll tear out, it doesn't do that to metal,
but on wood it would tear it up.
- So the arc...
- In fact, this power arc technology came from
their recip saw blades.
- Oh.
- So, the recip saw's blades, I've had for a while
and when you're cutting with a recip that's not
I mean you're just ripping through stuff,
so aggressive is fine on the recip.
- So also I noticed, Mark, that this isn't painted
it's...
- Yeah.
- Steel and then that one's painted.
- That is because, so the woodworkers,
the fine woodworkers, guys cutting
doing cabinetry or what have you,
countertops.
- That's our main...
- Yeah,
well think about it, when you're cutting through
you don't want that paint rubbing off on the side
of your...
- Gotcha.
- On the side of,
and they do make some less expensive wood blades
I believe have paint, but,
So yeah, we toured the plant,
and oh this metal one, by the way,
we got to see a demo,
and again it was against a Bosch,
and they cut through a 3/16 plate steel
maybe about 12 inches, and I think this was like
this cut through,
it was almost twice as fast,
and they say it lasts up to twice as long,
and it was legit, I mean we all tried it,
and they had a timer, and we all got to inspect
the other blade that was being tested,
and it was a fair test, it was way way faster.
It was very impressive,
that whole plant tour was awesome.
They were very, they treated us well,
we got to see most things, we couldn't take pictures
of it 'cuz they got some pretty high end
robotic stuff in there that was really awesome.
So,
these are, actually these are coming out soon.
2018, probably winter 2018, the cost,
I don't know, they'll probably cost more that other blades.
Lenox are usually more expensive
but you get what you pay for.
- Yeah, but they last longer.
- They last a lot longer and they work great.
I mean Lenox makes a great product.
Very impressive.
- Cool.
- Alright, we'll see you next time.
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