NPS Panel Saw Blades

The NPS series Panel Saws are designed to run longer and give extended performance when it counts. The NPS series Panel Saw Blades come with larger, stronger carbide tips designed to combat the abrasive glues and binding elements in MDF, laminates, particle boards, etc. In addition to the new tips, our saw plates are held to strict tolerances keeping the saw bodies extremely flat which makes the saws run truer. All panel saws have a 15 degree hook . ( More sizes to be added. Call us if what you need is not listed).

Using Main Blade & Matching Scoring Blade

To keep material from chipping at the bottom, use a main blade and a scoring blade, held in precise alignment to each other and turning in opposite directions. The lower surface is scored, cut by the smaller scoring blade ahead of the larger main blade that completes the cut. The outer surface of the material has already been cut and cannot chip.

With each sharpening, the main blade becomes shorter and narrower. The scoring blades must cut a kerf of the same width as the main blade kerf (blade is re-sharpened only on the face to maintain the constant kerf).

Consequently, the scoring saw kerf has to be altered. The conic scoring saw, when first put in use, cuts a deeper grove to match the wide main blade. As the main saw becomes narrower, the scoring saw must cut shallower (narrower) to match the main saw.

Most often, the main and scoring saws are purchased as a set and kept together for their entire useful lives. For split scoring saws, the need to match the kerf to that of a main saw remains the same, though the mechanics are different. Spacers (shims) are added to make it as wide as the new main saw. As the main saw becomes narrower with the repeated sharpening, spacers are removed from the scoring saw to keep it at the width of the main saw.