Bandsaw Blade Terminology
Term | Number in Above Diagram | Definition |
Blade back | 3 | The blade body, not including the tooth portion. |
Gage | 12 | The thickness of the blade |
Gullet | 2 | The curved area at the base of the tooth. |
Gullet depth | 4 | The distance from the tooth tip to the bottom of the gullet. |
Rake angle | 10 | The cutting surface of the tooth. |
Relief angle | 7 | The surface of the tooth opposite the cutting edge, or tooth face. |
Thickness | 12 | The thickness of the blade. |
Tooth | 5 | The cutting portion of the saw blade. |
Tooth back | 7 | The surface of the tooth opposite the cutting edge, or tooth face. |
Tooth back clearance angle | 9 | The angle of the tooth back measured in relation to the cutting direction of the saw. |
Tooth face | 8 | The cutting surface of the tooth. |
Tooth pitch | 11 | The distance from one tooth tip to the next tooth tip. |
Tooth rake angle | 10 | The angle of the tooth face measured with respect to a line perpendicular to the cutting direction of the saw. |
Tooth set | 13 | The offsetting of the teeth from right to left to allow clearance (kerf) of the blade back through the cut. |
TPI | 6 | The number of teeth per inch. |
Width | 1 | The nominal dimension of a saw blade, as measured from the tip of the tooth to the back of the blade. |