> You just have to get it resharpened and possibly get some new teeth brazed on.

This looks quite destructive to the teeth that contact the stop:

https://youtu.be/Ibp2Gy2CFrY?si=Pa98Vey2oE0Atx1e&t=7

I can't imagine it will ever be cost-effective the labor of repairing a blade after that instead of just getting a new one.

When I ran a woodshop we would get our blades resharpened for about $30 and new teeth were a few dollars each. Its absolutely worth it when your blades are $100+

I wouldn't re-use a blade that SawStop triggered on. I assume the blade itself will go out of true based on the forces. It's a lot more damage than a few teeth.

Professional sharpeners have tools for testing blade conditions. We had a guy who would drop by the shop once every couple months and pickup all our used blades to service.

This is really standard fare with professional carpentry. I don't understand why so many people here are in shock at the concept of blade servicing.

> This is really standard fare with professional carpentry. I don't understand why so many people here are in shock at the concept of blade servicing.

For me, I'm just surprised that the economics of it can work. I'd imagine such a specialist is not going to charge less than a $100/hr so I wouldn't have expected the cost of repair to make sense. But interesting that it does!

I think they make their money in the scale. They have a pickup guy who drives all over Los Angeles to pick up blades from all their customers. We had him come in every 2 months. He would return a batch of sharpened blades and take whatever blades were dull.

Definitely an old school style of business.

Yes I have the industrial grade Sawstop. I ran a professional carpentry business for years using it as our main saw. I probably bought it around 2012 or 2013, I can't remember exactly.

I don't know what to tell you. I ran a professional shop, I'm not a hobbyist. I couldn't tell you how many feet of lumber I've shoved through my table saw. I've never personally had the Sawstop pop due to a safety issue, but every single time it happened in the shop I was able to remove the blade and get it serviced for around $30-40 depending on how many teeth were lost. Most of my saw blades are greater then $100 new so this cost is worth it.

The workshop I used had a dozen plus false pops due to people cutting wet wood or similar issues. None of the blades were worth saving due to significant warping or damage.

I guess we’re just living in different worlds.

What brand of blades did you use? Most of mine were Forrest or Tenryu. The Forrest blades are very heavy.

This was a decade ago, and a workshop environment with a wide variety of blades.

So random folks, and random blades.

Ha. I've owned a SS for five years and used several of their high end cabinet saws in other shops. No one is going to bother brazing on new teeth on a saw blade. They'll just buy a new blade...

I've done it plenty of times. New teeth cost a few bucks when you get your blade resharpened.

When you have blades high cost blades ($100+) its absolutely worth it to get them resharpened and teeth replaced.

I have wrecked blades on my SawStop and while they likely could have this done, the easiest path is buy a new blade.

Are you saying you've possibly saved multiple fingers or serious injuries then?

In these cases no. It was stupidity of a different kind on my part, but never where I was in danger. For example I added a flexible ruler to one of my jigs without thinking about the fact that it was metal. The ruler (which I happened to be touching at the other end) touched the blade, so in essence the saw thought I was touching the blade.

Prior to owning the SawStop though I have had some close calls that would have been much less painful and dangerous had I been using a SawStop.

It really depends on the cost of the blade.