I just purchased a Striebig panel saw. Any advice on Blades? I will mostly be cutting laminate 2 sided sheet goods, partical board, plywood, melamine. All the basic sheet goods. No solid surface tho. It came with a Leuco Topline blade.

I run mostly Leuco, but purchased a couple of Freud 300mm blades a while back and they cut very nice.
72 tooth ATB on 2 sided plywood.
Check on Amazon, I think we're in the 120.00 range

I change my blades throughout the day depending on what I am cutting keeping the best blade for the finest material. I don't cut un-coated particle board with the same blade as for melamine unless the sharpest edge was already used up. I use a hollow ground tooth for melamine (short life, cuts well) and a ATB or triple chip for most else. I back score on the up stroke and complete the cut on the down stroke.

congrads on your purchase. U are going to love it.
We were using a german blade for 8 years and were getting 8-12 sheets before any chipping.
Last year tried Forrest blades.
We now can cut 24 sheets before any chipping is noticeable. they are not cheep. About 235.00 a blade. They stock 30mm x 300mm blades. Best investment ever.

I bought a compact 5207. Looks like the blade is smaller at 250 mm dia., 30 mm bore with (2) 7 mm pin holes (42 mm circle). I have about 150 sheets to cut up for this job I am working on now. I should probably get 3 blades to start. I dont see a Forrest with 250mm.

We used to use a slider exclusively and have always used Leitz blades. We are cutting veneered plywood and MDF.

Food for thought. We moved to a nested router. I thought before we got the router that we were going to eat up bits. We get 150 sheets from a $80 Vortex router bit. We don't change bits because of tear out we change bits because the edge surface quality degrades. It defies logic. If you grab the bit after running 20 sheets its just above room temperature.

You can call them. All their blades are not listed.They made a scoring blade for my slider we just bought.Very good price.

I have the compact and have found Tenryu triple chip blades to work the best. I have some atb ones as well but the triple chip seen to perform the best and cut the smoothest (we mostly cut prefin ply but I use them for everything). Hollow ground blades work good for melamine but they are not much better, are expensive to sharpen and difficult to find a qualified sharpener. I wouldn’t bother with them.
A

HI Andy, we also have a compact and use 80T triple chip blades from Amana and Age, also an Amana company I guess. The Age cost a lot less and run about the same for 4 or so sharpening s and then start to make loud ringing noise that Amana blade does not.
Do you have a part # for that Tenryu triple chip, I am not seeing one with 30mm bore and drive pin holes.
Also have never gotten a clean bottom cut on melamine or HPl with triple chip. We have scoring unit and run diamond blade on that, only need to sharpen that once or twice a year.

Thank you
Paul

Hi Paul,
Here it is.
You have scoring so you'll be fine but I don't think any blade does well on the backside of melamine with out scoring.
http://tenryusawblades.com/product.php?productid=17966&cat=369&page=1
Andy

I ended up picking up FS tool XL 4000 blades from the place i bought the saw from. So far so good. I also found out the sharping place I use sells them also. He had mentioned they have all the perimeters already for when they sharpen them. I did just cut some veneer ply. I thought it burned a bit more then it should. Was a newer blade. I am wondering if i should be switching to something else for veneer plywood?