[bobj3]

Hi Birch

Pine can be a pain sometimes (pine pitch will put burn marks on the stock)
If the blade is new and SHARP it should cut clean, but you can try a trick I use on pine sometimes ,take some 100 grit sand paper and 3M it to the saw blade on both sides.
Trim the sand paper to just under the saw slots on the blade.
Note***you will need to remove the blade 1st. then put the sand paper on it,keep it true and round.

It will cut it and sand it at the same time.

Bj

 

[bobj3]

Hi George

Nope,,, you can buy them premade (and I have paid for some of them 6 1/2",8",and the 10" blades, but I make my own.
They come like sanding disks (sticky paper on one side with the 5/8" hole in the center) then you just pull off paper and stick them on the blade.
But they are 60 and 80 grit unlike the ones I make.

Bj

That's a neat trick Bj, but doesn't it throw the blade out of balance?