Can anyone recomend a particular wet saw for trimming the butt end of blanks? More concerned with ease of use and quality than price.

Thanks!

You can use any diamond wet saw - used dry to easily trim and chop blanks.

But, perhaps an even better option is the use of a mini chop saw - remove the blade and replace it with a 3 inch abrasive cut off wheel.

Or, you could do, as I have done for many years - use an 8 inch conventional miter saw. Replace the blade with a good quality 8 inch abrasive cut off wheel.

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I've had good results using a Dremel tool with a cutting disc. I'll mark the blank and rotate the rod keeping the cutting edge lined up with the mark. Just don't rush it. So far I've gotten nice smooth cuts.

Are you looking for a wetsaw because you want to keep cutting temperatures as low as possible?

Looking at a wet saw to eliminate dust in the shop. Even running my dust collector behind my high speed chop saw does not catch it all.

Use a jewlers saw and do it by hand. Minimal dust.

Do your cutting, sanding, grinding etc. if a different area that the area where you do your wrapping and coating and it is a none issue.

Never a good idea to do "dirty" work in the same room as for guide wrapping and coating.

Difficult if not impossible to keep active dust out of clean wraps and coatings that are drying.

Marc,

Even a wet saw for cutting tiles will be dirty, unacceptably dirty in my opinion. I'd recommend, as others have,to move your existing saw to a separate "dirty" area outside of your "clean" wrapping/finishing area.

Marc,
I use a small portable chop saw with an abrasive cutoff wheel; it's small enough to take outside and cut in the driveway.

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
John in Wethersfield, CT