OPERATION FOCUS – SAW TECHNOLOGY
Grinding gives the blade an ultra-sharp tooth that has consistent tooth heights and exact tooth spacing
Lenox tested all over North America and Latin America with portable sawyers
generated by proprietary Lenox- engineered setting equipment. Using this process, the cutting face of set teeth are parallel to the raker tooth allowing sawyers to achieve smooth cuts and faster feed rates. Finally, Woodmaster C- Sharp also features new tooth geometry that was designed to extend fatigue life. Duane Jewett, Owner of
Dewey’s Lumber and Cedar Mill in Maine, tested the Woodmaster C- Sharp blade in some of the early field tests. Jewett has a 28HP Timber Harvester mill that he uses to saw cedar for his customers for various end-products like ship building. Jewett was very impressed with the blade’s performance. “The first thing I noticed was
how nice and smooth it cut,” he said. “It was really smooth. I seem to be able to feed through a little faster than the blades I’ve used over the years and we all know that quicker means cutting more – and that means more money in your pocket.” Fernandes: “Portable sawyers
are very well educated in their profession. One of the questions we constantly heard during our field research prior to and during testing was about the steel we used for Woodmaster C-Sharp. The quick and easy answer to this question is that Woodmaster C-Sharp uses the same high- carbon grade steel that is used today with Woodmaster C.
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However, unlike the Woodmaster C product, the steel used for the Woodmaster C-Sharp undergoes a proprietary steel preparation that contributes to industry leading fatigue life and multiple sharpenings. Along with the modified steel
preparation, Lenox has made Woodmaster C-Sharp easily identifiable to sawyers in the field. The appearance of the blade will be polished-gun barrel blue, which is different than the industry’s standard of polished silver blades. Along with the different colour steel, blades will be marked by laser. This laser mark will not wear off the blade
during usage unlike the inkjet mark used by the majority of the industry. The mark will not only include the Lenox product name, but it will also have pertinent information such as blade width, thickness, tooth spacing, rake angle, side set, and the manufacturing date code. “These enhancements to the
way Lenox marks the blades and how often the mark will appear is
a step ahead of anyone else in the industry,” Fernandes said. “This mark won’t wear off and it will allow sawyers all over the world to know all the information pertinent to them when they want to sharpen, re-set, and re-order blades.” Lenox tested all over North America and Latin America with portable sawyers and large re-saw customers. Testing yielded
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