[Birchwood]

Holy Moly boys!.....whats going on here. Started work on my new porch coat/hat rack and first thing happens wood scorches. I'm cutting nice clear pine. The ANGLE cut is the worst....using a miter cut on table saw. I made a couple staight cuts and same thing! Dirty blade maybe....so I cleaned it. Blade is not old. Blade lines up perfectly square to throat etc. What?

 

[Birchwood]

Well you guys, I still haven't figured it out, but I sure DO like the idea of the sandpaper! The blade in the saw is a fine cut blade and I amost wonder it THAT isn't the problem.....too long to make the cut. Worst scorching was when cutting a 45. I was able to sand it off thank goodness, something I didn't think I would get away with. I don't THINK it was underpower on the saw, a nice JET. And I had used it a day or so earlier to zip right through some 2" white oak. Well....I will keep mulling it over. For now, I was able to make the cuts I needed and move on, buy sanding the scorch off. Thanks all.

 

[Birchwood]

Okay fellas, I think I figured out why the scorching-it had to be the fine tooth blade. Blade was clean, running absolutely true, and the saw is a nice JET that I routinely cut hard stuff with. So, another lesson learned. And I DID learn that I should remember to CLEAN my saw blade every now and then too!!