Slitting Saw Using a Tungsten Sawblade

**Great Ideas Catalogue** · Mar 25, 2026, 10:58 AM

Slitting Saw Using a Tungsten Sawblade

**jdurand** · Mar 26, 2026, 07:34 AM

Another slitting saw arbor, add that to my list of projects.

I have a horizontal bandsaw, but can still see uses for this.

**Great Ideas Catalogue** · Mar 26, 2026, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by jdurand

Another slitting saw arbor, add that to my list of projects.

I have a horizontal bandsaw, but can still see uses for this.

I would love to have such a bandsaw, but my tiny workshop just do not have any space for it. So, the slitting saw blade works well enough, mostly because it uses virtually no space. I will make a video of my tiny workshop somewhere in the future to share just how small it is and how many tools are crammed in there.

**jdurand** · Mar 26, 2026, 08:28 AM

When we moved, we designed the new house to fit us. One thing was a HEATED shop big enough to do stuff in. That turned out to be the easy part.

**Great Ideas Catalogue** · Mar 26, 2026, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by jdurand

When we moved, we designed the new house to fit us. One thing was a HEATED shop big enough to do stuff in. That turned out to be the easy part.

I am lucky to live in a warmer climate (Pretoria in South Africa) and do not need heating. When we moved we bought a house in a security village (a small one with just seven houses). The house does have a double garage and I store most of my hand tools there, but the machines live in a small wooden shed that I built.

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**jdurand** · Mar 26, 2026, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Great Ideas Catalogue

I am lucky to live in a warmer climate (Pretoria in South Africa) and do not need heating. When we moved we bought a house in a security village (a small one with just seven houses). The house does have a double garage and I store most of my hand tools there, but the machines live in a small wooden shed that I built.

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I lived in Cape Town for a short time, I like it much better here (Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation).

It does get pretty warm here in summer, I just added a fan to my milling machine control box. But we also get snow in the winter. Overall, not bad.

**olderdan** · Mar 26, 2026, 01:24 PM

Great tip and first post with careful use the wrong item can be used to good effect.

I have also used tungsten router bits on non ferrous metals for shamfer and rounding over.
BTW I also make my arbours the same way.