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Blades/Wood/etc. : Reverse Spiral Blades
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From: ozarkhillbilly  (Original Message)Sent: 5/7/2006 1:33 AM
I use spiral blades exclusivley for all my cuttings, primerally portraits, I use FD spiral blades, and finally got around to ordering some reverse spiral blades, well I have finished my latest project which I stack cut, and when examining the finished results I noticed that while the blades did reduce the amount of fuzzies, I found I had fuzzies on both sides of the portrait! Not just the back of the piece. Is this common with using these blades? If so I think I will be just using the regular spiral blades, at least I only had one side of fuzzies to deal with.
 
Bill   


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From: MSN NicknameweathtdSent: 5/7/2006 2:02 AM
I tried the reverse spiral and I'm going to stick the the regular spiral blades.  Didn't notice fuzzies on top but the reverse teeth kept pulling up my pattern, even with extra glue and tape on top.

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(1 recommendation so far) Message 3 of 6 in Discussion 
From: SawToothSent: 5/7/2006 10:10 PM
Bill,
  I've neither used, nor even seen, the FD reverse spiral blades you used... but I'm having a hard time picturing why they would produce fuzzies on top... do you have a theory?
 
Spence

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From: MSN NicknameKarmas-BHSent: 5/8/2006 1:56 PM
I haven't tried these (although Mike did give me a sample, I'm not big on spirals) but it sounds to me as if the 'reverse' part is coming up too high.
Has anyone put one next to a 'regular' and compared the lengths of the sections?
Maybe you could snip a little bit of the bottom of the blade and bring it down that way.
Christine

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From: MSN NicknametutorssSent: 5/8/2006 4:36 PM
I've used some reverse spirals and felt they didn't cut as quickly or smoothly as regular spirals, it felt as if I had to really push the wood with a new blade (I tried different blades from different groups of dozens)... I went back to the standard spiral and a few times gave the reverse spirals away for my local groups raffle drawings, a dozen or two at a time. I also didn't notice the fuzzies on top, just didn't like how they cut personally.

Tutor

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From: MSN Nicknametas2181Sent: 5/8/2006 10:24 PM
I would recommend trying some of Mike's New Spirals- they are not reverse but cut a lot cleaner than the older spirals and with less fuzzies.
 
Tom

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