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I recently bought a Circular Sawblade Sharpener from Harbor Freight as a father's day gift. Because the specs said the machine only handled blades up to a 1" arbor hole, I thought I would have to make a shim of some type to handle Shopsmith blades. To my surprise, the Pressure Bushing that comes with the machine is, in fact, large enough to firmly hold the Shopsmith blades with their 1 1/4" arbor holes.

Couldn't wait to try it out! Sharpened two multipurpose blades and a Shopsmith rip blade. They came out nicely sharpened. I only used the diamond wheel to touch up the flat surface. The other surfaces don't need any re-surfacing. I'm convinced it can be used to sharpen my 6" wobble dado as well as rip and crosscut blades.

Cost of the unit was $60 (presently 20% off and available locally). A real bargain for sharpening 7 blades.

I don't know how long the diamond wheel will last, but HF offers replacement grinding wheels at a reasonable cost.

To me, it appears that HF has a tool that really works.

http://www.harborfreight.com/120-volt-circular-saw-blade-sharpener-96687.html

http://manuals.harborfreight.com/manuals/96000-96999/96687.pdf

I bought one of those a while back. So far I have only had time to putter with a couple of blades but I was pretty impressed. I believe (short memory) that I determined that those diamond wheels were a standard size and generally available.


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SDSSmith wrote:I have been curious about this tool. Chuck, how long did it take you to sharpen the blades?

It took me about an hour to figure out and to understand the tool in order to set it up. Once realizing what the various parts are - the set up was easy!

Although I didn't time it - to put a new shiny sharp edge on the tooth faces of the multi-purpose blades took about 15 to 20 minutes. The rip blade went a lot faster! The hardest part on the multi-purpose blade was caused by the larger space before the first tooth in a series of five. Because of that space, the tooth stop bar past right by the last tooth in each series of 5. The middle tooth in each series of five had to be manually adjusted to the diamond wheel.

It was sure a lot better than using one of those little plastic hand held diamond paddles on each tooth!!!!! This was my earlier method.

Edit: Minor correction; (word underlined)

Their chain saw sharpener also works quite well.

foxtrapper wrote:Their chain saw sharpener also works quite well.

HF or Belsaw?

Never mind! I was thinking of a different thread that Farmer posted on!:o

I am located in the SW corner of Utah and haven't been able to locate anyone to sharpen my SS blades. How much to sharpen 2 blades for me?

Jim (jkandreasen@gmail.com)

jkandreasen wrote:I am located in the SW corner of Utah and haven't been able to locate anyone to sharpen my SS blades. How much to sharpen 2 blades for me?

Jim ([email="jkandreasen@gmail.com)"]jkandreasen@gmail.com)[/email]

There are many sources for blade sharpening. Freud is one. Some of the Forum members have used this service and are happy with the results. However, for 60 to 80 bucks you can do your own on one of the HF units.