Did this metal come from my saw blade?
So I was cutting some pine today on a relatively new CMT blade. Half way through a cut I noticed lots of very fine silvery shavings on top of the wood.
Stopped the cut and inspected. First off I figured I’d hit a nail or something but nothing there. Also the pieces were not chips. The were extremely thin, curled up and very soft. Definitely metal though (ferrous).
Looking at the blade teeth there’s lots of ‘clean’ bits just at the edge of the teeth.
Only thing it has cut is pine and Formply. As far as I know I haven’t hit any metal or anything like that.
Any idea what’s happened here? Is this something I stuffed up or possibly a quality control issue with the blade?
u/Aussie_MacGyver — 16 hours ago