Second Best Plywood Blade

[Mark J]

I know they make plywood blades for the TS, but I don't have one.  I do have  crosscut, rip and combination blades.  Which is the best second choice for plywood?  I'm guessing the combination blade, but what does the herd say?

[JohnG]

I’d go for the crosscut blade. The tricky thing about plywood is that it’s half cross and half rip. It’s the cross plies that cause problems, so a crosscut blade would do well.

[Chestnut]

I use my cross cut blade. Combination gets me a lot more chip out.

[gee-dub]

Given your set I would use the combo for most things and maybe the crosscut for 3/8" and under.  Even my 50T made for ply is sometimes too many teeth for anything over 3/4".

[wtnhighlander]

I agree with the above comments, but will offer an observation.

I have a 60T Spyder 'Tarantula' blade from a home center. This is supposed to be a 'construction grade' cutter, but this thing makes AMAZINGLY clean cuts, across grain, through ply, and even glue-ready rips, although feed is slower for that. It is a little thinner than the premium blades, and may not have enough carbide to resharpen even once, I don't know. But the cut quality is pretty darn impressive, especially for a blade in the $50 range.

[krtwood]

I leave my plywood blade on all the time unless I have to rip over 1" thick or need a flat bottom to the kerf.  I don't bother with having a crosscut blade anymore, they do the same thing just the plywood blade does it better at the expense of maybe getting dull faster.

[BillyJack]

I'm not sure if Amana still does, but they use to have a breakdown of what different teeth do depending on what you want. Other site may offer this. Get educated on what is what and weigh it against what you need.

[Dave H]

When I want a smooth no tear out cut I lower my blade so only about 1/8" is above the table saw I run the piece through the saw then raise the blade above the thickness of the piece I'm cutting and run it through and wah-lah no tear out ever. Yes it takes a little longer per cut but, so is changing blades I use a combo blade exclusively.