HOLY @#$^&*!?! Wow!
Like I said, I looked at Dimar's online store... Lot's of info, but not pricing, right? So I went to the site contact and sent them a message saying I was interested in their Dimar adjustable scoring blades and the replacement blades for that, but that there was no pricing- how much and where to buy?
Background. My saw uses a Split scoring blade set, where you set the width of cut by shimming between the 2 blade halves. The one I was interested in from Dimar has a dial type adjustment, where you set the width by that dial type of control... Sort of like the Frued adjustable dado stack.
Well a day later, I got 2 emails from Sharpo.ca about some Dimar sales... There was some blades that were 50% off, spiral router bit sale and a countersink sale... but nothing was mentioned about what I inquired about. It seemed more like just a some kind of canned response. I was wondering what was up with that and if I should just give up on that avenue.
A day after that, I got an email from a rep at Sharpco.ca asking if I was still interested in buying scoring blades... If so, to call him.
I did. He said "Didn't I email you that me info and prices on that?" He then aplogized for not doing that. He refered me to info on the Dimar site. I told him I'd seen that, but that there was no pricing there. He said the price for the Dimar adjustable scoring set is $369 and the replacement blade set was $225... Then there's probably a duty, shipping, etc... And if I decide I want to order, I need to call him.
I didn't expect that. That is much more than the Frued adjustable dado and there is "more" to that mechanism. In fact, I get industrial/commercial grade scoring sets from $85 to $145 including shipping. So even in the long run, I'm not saving any money by going that way. As for the dial style adjust instead of having to shim, I think for over 300% less cost, I can continue to shim my scoring blades.