Standard Tooth

0º Rake angle and equally spaced teeth. General purpose tooth style, useful for cutting small details, cutting across the grain of wood and the most popular tooth form for metal cutting applications.

Advantages

• Excellent chip carrying capacity

Benefits

• General purpose

Skip Tooth

0º Rake angle, equally spaced teeth and wide flat gullets. Corse blade that cuts quickly and is best suited for cutting long gentle curves. Recommended applications include: brittle materials of large diameter such as brass, bronze, aluminium risers and brittle plastics.

Advantages

• Excellent chip carrying capacity
• Provides a corse pitch on narrow bands

Benefits

• Excellent cutting for non ferrous and non metallic applications

Hook Tooth

Positive rake angle, wide rounded gullets and equally spaced teeth. Most aggressive tooth style. The large round gullet can transport large amounts of material from the cut.  The most suitable application is for ripping along the grain or cutting across the width of wood.

Advantages

• The positive rake angle provides better tip penetration with less feed pressure.

Benefits

• Fast cutting with good surface finish

Variable Tooth Pitch

0º or Positive rake angle, varying gullet depth and tooth spacing. The variable pitch tooth style decreases the vibration on interrupted cuts such as those made on tubing,  U channel or beams. The tooth size and depth of the gullet changes from one tooth to the next.

Advantages

• Reduced vibration
• Aggressive cutting

Benefits

• Improves blade life
• Smooth and efficient cut
• Reduced noise