We all know that saw blades can be expensive. If you want to reuse your dull blades, the you pretty much have two choices; 1) Sharpen them manually with a file, or, and I think this is the best way, 2) Invest in a blade sharpener. Look, I think everybody I know has said at one point, “Why doesn’t someone invent an oscillating blade or reciprocating blade sharpener”. Well finally, one company did it. Don’t get me wrong, the Sharp Pog for oscillating blades has been around for a bit. It does work, but it’s not great and can’t sharpen carbide or reciprocating saw blades. As far as manually filing blades, I’ll never do it even if I had intentions of doing it…it’s a huge time wasting pain. That all being said, there is a far better solution that just hit the market.
Tigers Teeth Industries has introduced their pro grade solution. It’s called the Tigers Teeth Blade Sharpener. It is new to the market, so I wasn’t sure it would do everything it promised…but, it looked like it would. The website TigersTeethBlades.com says that it can sharpen oscillating multi-tool blades, reciprocating blades, circular saw blades and even drill bits…and it does the all important carbide blades and drills. They really thought ahead when they decided to use cordless tool batteries from all kinds of brands. It’s really most useful on the job site and being cordless tool battery powered, it solved that issue. I keep my Tigers Teeth sharpener in my packout tool box.
The price at the time was around $249 and I upgraded to all the available options they had. When I buy a tool, I try to buy the best and get all the options from the start. By the time it was shipped, I had around $310 invested into this. They offer a return period, so if I didn’t like it, I could return it. Even if they didn’t offer any kind of return, I would have bought it. The upside if it worked was pretty big financial savings.
How well does it work? Actually, it works great! For steel oscillating blades, it makes a completely new row of teeth in less than 30 seconds. To learn how to use it only took around 3 or 4 minutes of working an old blade. If you slow down a little bit and just take a few extra seconds, you’ll have good looking ground factory sharp teeth. I’ve not tried it on steel reciprocating blades, but I definitely tried it on carbide reciprocating blades. Again, it takes a few minutes to learn what to do. I’m happy to report that it does in fact resurface carbide to a very sharp edge. This goes for circular saw blades as well. It definitely will do drills, but I’ll need to practice more to perfect it.
The design very smartly done. My only complaint is that it doesn’t come with a way to mount it to something like a square of MDF or plywood to keep it in place. That was quickly solved by drilling a small hole in the grinder body and mounting it to some MDF using metal L brackets (I did speak with the inventor/owner and he said that mounts will be available at some point).
Overall, this was a smart investment into a tool that paid off quickly. It doesn’t take much math to figure out the amount of money and time saved by the Tigers Teeth Blade Sharpener. As far as comparing it to the Sharp Pog…there is no comparison. The Pog makes thin weak teeth on steel oscillating blades and the Tigers Teeth makes triangular strong teeth…and does a lot more. The Pog was a good idea when it came out, it’s way out dated now by the Tigers Teeth sharpener. Basically, go get yourself the Tigers Teeth sharpener and get one for every truck and crew that you have. It’s a game changer for sure.
Link to the page for their grinder: https://tigersteethblades.com/collections/sharpeners