How to Sharpen a Table Saw

Bench Grinder Method

• 1

  Dismount the blade from your table saw.

• 2

  Put a fine-grit grinding wheel onto your bench grinder and turn it on to the highest speed.

• 3

  Hold your table saw's blade with both hands, while wearing work gloves, and approach the table saw at the narrowest angle possible.

• 4

  Press and release the saw blade onto the spinning grinding wheel very lightly and quickly on each sawtooth, maintaining a narrow angle between the bench grinder and the saw blade.

• 5

  Repeat for each side of each tooth.

Handheld Grinder Method

• 6

  Dismount the blade from your table saw, and wrap the bottom in a shop towel so that the vice doesn't damage it.

• 7

  Clap the toweled part of the blade tightly into the bench vice, making sure that the blade's center hole is centered with the clamps.

• 8

  Put a fine-grit grinding wheel onto your handheld grinder.

• 9

  Turn your grinder onto the highest speed, and lightly and quickly sharpen each tooth of the blade at the narrowest angle possible, from the side.

• 10

  Unclamp the blade once you're done with the top half, and reclamp it in order to finish the bottom half.