Blade Repair &
Retipping
A blade with broken teeth isn't trash — it's a repair job. Frank's brazes new carbide teeth onto damaged blades, trues bent plates, and assesses brake-fired blades honestly, returning tooling that runs like new for a fraction of what replacement costs. Before you throw anything away, let us look at it.
What we repair
What Can Be Saved
More than most people think. Here's what comes across our bench:
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Saw blade retipping — broken or missing carbide teeth replaced and ground to match
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Bent saw blade repair — plates checked and trued back to flat
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Cracked gullets and shoulder damage assessed
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Brazed tooling repair — custom cutters and specialty tools re-tipped
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Knives and straight blades past normal grinding evaluated for rework
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The honest "no" — when repair costs more than replacement, we tell you
SawStop and
brake-fired blades
SawStop Fired? Don't Toss the Blade Yet.
A brake activation grabs the blade hard — teeth break, and the plate takes a shock. Many brake-fired blades are repairable: we replace the broken teeth, check the plate for trueness and cracks, and return a blade that's safe to run. Some aren't worth saving, and we'll say so — a compromised plate never goes back in a saw. Send a photo of the blade and the damage, and we'll tell you before you spend a dime.
The process
How a Retip Works
Retipping is real fabrication, not a patch. The damaged tooth remnant is removed, a new carbide tip is brazed to the plate, then the new tooth is ground on every face to match the geometry of its neighbors — hook, bevel, height and kerf. Done right, you can't pick the new teeth out of the lineup, and the blade cuts as one edge again.
3 steps (numbered, orange chips):
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Assess — plate, teeth and tension inspected; you get a straight answer on repair vs. replace
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Rebuild — new carbide brazed on, plates trued, damage ground out
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Match-grind — repaired teeth ground to the blade's geometry, then the full blade sharpened
Who this saves money for
The Math on Repair
Production shops with expensive blades feel this first: a large-diameter or specialty blade can cost hundreds to replace, while retipping a few teeth costs a fraction of that — and the repaired blade sharpens on the same rotation as the rest of your set. Cabinet shops, millwork plants, lumber operations and metal shops all run damaged blades through us before buying new. Route pickup, drop-off, or mail-in.
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