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title: When You Should Pick a Cold Saw Over a Bandsaw
description: "Cold Saw versus Bandsaw: Which of these saws will be a better fit for a specific type of work and fill the need for productivity and higher quality?"
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# When You Should Pick a Cold Saw Over a Bandsaw

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Machine shops, fabricators, and other metalworking shops often own both a circular cold saw and either a horizontal or vertical bandsaw. But if budgetary considerations cause a manufacturer to choose between the two, which of these saws will be a better fit for a specific type of work and fill the need for productivity and higher quality?

While cold saws and band saws each come with a set of advantages, the differences between the two sawing processes tend to favor the cold saw. And depending on your application, choosing a cold saw over a bandsaw can increase your productivity and allow you to attract a wider variety of customers.

Here is what you need to consider:

#### **Cold saws provide consistent cut length accuracy**

The circular cold sawing process produces a square face and part-length accuracy of +/- 0.005" or closer. The bandsaw blade's flexible nature allows it to drift throughout the cut, resulting in a much less accurate cut.

If you are looking to cut up material that will be machined later, a bandsaw will work adequately, but if your operation requires parts to leave the saw without further secondary operations, the cold saw is the better option.

 

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#### **The cold saw finish is superior**

Part finish and accuracy go hand-in-hand, and the cold saw will give you a square, accurate cut with a milled-like finish. Accuracy, squared cuts, and an excellent finish result in tight joints requiring no additional machining or "clean-up" cuts. These advantages become even more essential when secondary applications, such as welding, follow the sawing operations.

#### **Cold saws are appropriate for all types of materials**

All grades of steel, including stainless and high-carbon, work well with cold saws. They are ideal for thin-walled tubing, entering and exiting the material without generating excess heat, and producing a high-quality cut that requires no finishing operations.

Cold saws can run at lower RPMs for cutting aluminum, brass, copper, and other non-ferrous materials. And they are designed to cut a variety of steels successfully.

#### **The cold saw has the edge when it comes to efficiency**

Although the initial price of a cold saw blade would likely be higher than a bandsaw blade, you need to factor in that the cold saw blade can be re-sharpened, while the bandsaw blade must be discarded when it can no longer cut.

The re-sharpening benefit of a cold saw blade could be substantial cost savings, but there is another one: the downtime for a cold saw blade change would be much less than for a bandsaw blade change.

 

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**A recently resharpened carbide-tipped circular saw blade  
Photo Credit:** [Universal Tool Sharpening](https://www.universaltoolsharpeningvic.com.au/)

#### **Choose a cold saw under the following circumstances**

Pick the circular cold saw over a bandsaw if your shop:

- Cuts materials that aren't extremely large: cold saws are usually limited in diameter to 6" and under
- Does a lot of miter cutting
- It needs to have finishes that are clean, square, and accurate without using secondary operations
- Needs to avoid heating material or creating burrs on cut edges
- Is willing to pay more upfront but receive a higher return on investment (ROI)

#### **Choose from automatic, semi-automatic, and manual cold saws**

Investigate the models of [Dake heavy-duty cold saws](https://dakecorp.com/products/cold-saws) with choices among automatic, semi-automatic, and manual models. Each of them features 45-degree rotation for clean and accurate miter cuts, along with a coolant pump with flow control adjustment.

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