Doublecut Wide Band – Simonds International

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Item #: Simonds Trademark Doublecut Wide Band

Simonds doublecut wide bands are made with extraordinary attention to tooth profiles and benching specifications to insure that the mill can prep the saws very quickly for use. We start with the finest steel available and manufacture these saws using state-of-the-art machinery, much of which we engineered and built ourselves.

The craftsmen that make these saws in our Ridgefield WA, Lévis Quebec, and Florence SC plants are led by long time industry veterans and take great pride in their trade. Simonds has been manufacturing cutting tools in the United States since 1832, a long, proud tradition and we have many current employees that are second and third generation in the sawmill business.

Simonds wide bands are made to meet the requirements of the finest, most productive sawmills in the world. We manufacture wide bands in state of the art plants in Ridgefield WA, Lévis QC and Florence SC and have distribution centers in Salmon Arm BC and Little Rock AR to service customers in those geographic areas.
Our plant in Ridgefield is also the home of our Armstrong Mfg and Wright Machine Tool equipment divisions. This puts our machinery folks working on the same plant floor as the plant that uses the equipment they build. This is a powerful and unique advantage to both the Simonds wide band craftsmen and to the Armstrong / Wright machinery crews, by working shoulder-to-shoulder these folks get a great understanding of each others requirements.

Specifications:

Gauge: 18 gauge to 12 gauge
Lengths: 16′ to 60′
Width: 4″ to 16″

MinFeedSpeed2.xls

Short video on making a proper saw shape rubbing

PDF File explaining proper saw rubbing technique

Short video on calibrating an Armstrong No 76 Back Gauge

Back Gauge readings on different length gauges.pdf

Why Simonds?

Simonds was an early pioneer in the narrow kerf bandsaw blade industry. And, this business is still core to Simonds today. We brought some early innovations to the market, such as the first 1-1/4″ and 2″ wide hard back bandsaw products. We developed innovative packaging designs for our Welding Distributors, by working together to minimize logistics costs.

A recent development, PreSharp, sets a new standard of performance by squaring the face to the cut to perform right out of the factory. Choose Simonds because we bring our century of wood cutting experience to each and every Red Streak blade.