How to Quickly Uncoil & Unwrap Butcher Blades

If you’re not someone who handles bandsaw blades on a daily basis, uncoiling and unwrapping your butcher blades can become a bit of a hassle. Since Simmons strives to eliminate our customers’ hassles wherever possible, we decided to put together this video on how to quickly uncoil and unwrap your Butcher blades. Press the play
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How to Perform a Ring Test

If you’re working with bandknife or bandsaw blades, chances are you’ll eventually need to use a grinding wheel. However, before you mount a new grinding wheel, you should always perform a ring test to make sure it is in fully intact. We know you probably wish you could just start grinding away but performing a
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3 Reasons to Order Replacement Blades for OEM Machines from a Blade Manufacturer

Does your business cut bone-in or boneless meats using food processing machinery from OEMs like Butcher Boy, Grasselli, Grote, or Hobart? Or are you fabricating foam sheets using peeling and splitting machines from OEMs like Baumer, Edge-Sweets, or Fecken-Kirfel? If so, it’s likely tempting to simply order replacement blades for those machines from the same
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4 Common Foam Types & How to Cut Them

Simmons has manufactured bandknife and bandsaw blades for foam cutting operations for more than 75 years. In that time, we’ve learned about all different types of foam and, more importantly, which blade or edge type cuts them best for their intended purpose. Now, we’d like to share some what we’ve learned with you. Flexible Polyurethane
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3 Reasons Why Metal Cutting Bandsaw Blades Break

Even the most “normal” cutting operations put an immense amount of pressure on the bandsaw blade that’s doing the cutting. Metal cutting operations take that pressure to the next level. That’s why tougher, more durable metal cutting bandsaw blades like bi-metal and carbide blades are typically used to cut through metal or steel applications. However,
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The Importance of Blade Tension

In the world of cutting operations, there is a best practice that applies to all applications. While it may not seem important at first, the extent to which you tension your bandknife or bandsaw blades can quite literally make or break your finished product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to properly tension your blades before
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Choosing the Right Bandsaw Blade

Imagine finding the perfect utility blade. One that’s capable of cutting through all types of material at a faster rate than any other blade on the market. Sounds nice, right? Unfortunately for everyone, it doesn’t exist…yet. So, until our engineers design this blade (we’re sure it’s only a matter of time), the best we can
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Identifying Causes of Blade Failure

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In our previous blog post, we covered the definition of blade life and how to determine it over time. Naturally, it makes sense to next discuss what happens when bandsaw blades reach the end of their lives. There are two different categories of blade failure: normal and premature blade failure. Let’s dive into each one
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How to Determine Blade Life

Blade life is measured in terms of the amount of work completed by a blade before that blade loses its effectiveness. That being said, blade life is typically determined on a case-by-case basis. Blade users should take four different factors into account when determining a blade’s useful life.    Amount This one is fairly obvious.
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Food Processing Blades: An Overview

The food processing industry is one of the largest in the world. It can be broken into hundreds of sub-industries, some of which are massive in their own right. That being said, it just makes sense for a business like Simmons to establish and cultivate a stake in food processing, which is exactly why we’ve
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