Cooks Sawdust Journal
How Fast Should a Bandsaw Turn and Does That Change for Frozen Logs?
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 16th 2019
These two questions are very good and are asked quite often and everyone who saws should consider how fast their saw is turning no matter who manufactured the mill.I will reveal from experience some f
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The History of Thin Kerf Bandsaw Blades
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 16th 2019
The thin kerf blade is a relatively young industry having its roots beginning around the 1970’s. During this time period most narrow blades being produced were for the metal bandsaw industry. So as w
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Analyzing Broken Blades
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 15th 2019
Our motto here at Cook’s Saw is “Our goal is to help you make more money”. We get the opportunity to apply this principle daily as we do our best to help people who neither have our sawmill nor have
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Breaking Records with 2" Bandsaw Blades
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 14th 2019
For the operator of a thin kerf style sawmill or resaw looking for high production sawing there is little that can compete with the production that a 2” wide blade can provide. In addition, the invest
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The Bottom Line about Sawing Straight - Part 2
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 14th 2019
In the last article I gave you a little history as to how I came to realize many of the blade discoveries that garnered me some insight toward sawing straighter and faster. These findings revealed so
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The Bottom Line about Sawing Straight - Part 1
Posted by Tim Cook on Jan 14th 2019
It was 1992 and we were selling a lot of thin kerf blades to the portable sawmill industry. I had a customer in Tomball, TX that had a Cook Sawmill and a LT 40 WM sawmill. One day he called me and
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