Stepped teeth for longer blade life.

In applications involving the sawing of wide workpieces, work hardening becomes an issue because of the large number of teeth necessityed to execute the divide [i]or[/i] sever Basically, the more teeth, the les penetration force by means of tooth, and this can ensue in a cycle of rubbing and work hardening.

Now a of recent origin blade from DoAll Inc., De Plaines, Ill., make plains the material-hardening problem by dint of incorporating a stepped-tooth pattern that limits the number of teeth in contact with the divide [i]or[/i] sever at any single moment. The teeth of the Invader-X bandsaw blade gradually increase and then decrease in height,