Cooks Sawdust Journal

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 … read more

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 … read more

Some people are happy with a mill that saws ‘ok’, but ‘ok’ is not production sawing. If you’re in the group of people who purchased a sawmill with the intention of sawing for production or if you just … read more

In the last issue we discussed the basics what makes up a bandsaw blade. In this brief article we are going to go over two key features of a blade that will hopefully help you in striving to get the m … read more

With the increase of bandsaw blade marketing in terms of ‘hook angle’ there is also an increase in questions that arise as to how hook angle actually affects blade performance. So the question of … read more

How to Evaluate a Bandsaw BladeI hear many people in our industry using the number of sharpenings they get out of a blade as the measuring stick to determine its overall value. I hear this so often, I … read more