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Just as a heads up. If you plan to rip the elm and it's 40+mm make sure you get a blade with fewer teeth to rip it and then trim it with the fine blade.
I went for years trying to rip 50mm pieces and having the saw bog down before I invested in a few different blades.
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Learned most of my tablesaw skills mainly cutting plywood, and had the importance of a fine tooth negative rake blade hammered into me. Blew my mind when I first used a proper ripping blade when dimensioning timber.
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Ta. Will be ripping and then jointing by hand, my bench should just about take it.
Good advice on using the correct blades, I'm a sucker for just ripping with crosscut saws and it always makes me hate woodworking.
Nef
Grumpy_Git
Looks like I just ordered two 4m slabs of elm for a dining table. Top end tracksaw it is!!!