in this video we're going to be unboxing setting up and using the four inch slash
5 inch trim saw from high tech diamond and my very first impression of the saw
is the size of the box it's pretty small this is not going to take
up a big footprint which i'm actually really excited about let's open this up
that's a nice little apron cool a manual
and a saw as you can see look at this look at how compact this is this is awesome
all right so we got it on the bench and it's even more compact than i expected which is great
because if you follow along with other videos that i've done you know i have a 10 inch lapidary saw
and one of the reasons i wanted a smaller saw is because sometimes the ten inch saw can be a little
bit excessive so being that i'm already familiar with saws i'm not going to go through the manual
right now and i do highly recommend if you are a new user of lapidary size read your manual
get comfortable with it i know it can be kind of scary working with the saw but these blades that
come with these they're continuous blades right they're not open tooth you do have to be careful
you do have to be safe with this stuff so i think what i'm going to do is throw the five inch blade
on this to start we'll get everything set up so it's ready for use so we'll take this off
here so we can install the five inch blade and it has a little arrow on it as per the
way that it's going to turn and if it's like my 10 inch saw it's going to rotate towards me
and i like this a lot right here it's a lot easier for installing new blades compared to my 10 inch
with the other one a lot more steps included it's not that much but
this is this is pretty it's nice how easy that is easy peasy look at how thin this blade is
that is so thin that's amazing the trim saw is ideal for taking slabs like these pieces
of porphyry and cutting them into shapes that you can then dop and polish and we're also going to be
taking some other things and cutting this so let's get this filled up with water and get it started
so now that we have the well filled with water just enough so that as the blade is running it
is circulating around the blade keeping the blade cool and the stone cool we'll get the this top put
back on here i do have a little spray guard put on as well we'll set this here let's turn it on and
we'll do some test cuts with it and i'm going to go ahead and turn it all the way up to six
so because my poor free piece is just a little too big to fit in here
i'm gonna take this splash guard off and we can just work it right into through like this
so as you can see we burned through those pieces of porphyry pretty quick i think to cut these for
it took me about five minutes and they're ready to be doped and polished and yeah pour free it's very
very dirty dirty stone we'll get this cleaned off real quick get some fresh water put in it
i got something fun to show you i have a little bowl of lake superior agate nodules
that i want to cut open and like i said my tenor saw is too big for these but this
five inch blade is gonna be perfect see what's going on inside these nodules so get to cutting
so we cut up a lot of beautiful lake superior agates with our brand new saw
we got this all cleaned up i got the blade taken off and cleaned off so that i can
extend the lifetime of that and it's not sitting in dirty water and rusting out so let me tell you
what i think about this four or five inch trim saw all right so first thing is the size of the
saw i love how small it is and it fits perfectly on my workbench has a very small footprint it can
sit right next to my dopping station and next to my flat lap and yeah just doesn't take up that
much room so it's nice having a saw inside and i have my big ten inch outside so that works out
perfectly for me next thing is the size of the saw blades i like that it has the four or five
inch option and for doing more trim work because this is a trim saw first doing the trim work with
slaps and stuff makes it really easy and i cut through that pour free really really quick and
i cut through a ton of those like superior agates in a very short amount of time so that was pretty
fun and they cut through really nice the blade is so thin that you're not wasting a ton of material
when you're cutting through it as per with my ten inch saw has a bit of a thicker blade so
you do cut through a little bit more material but i really love the blade on this as well and again
back to the size of it it's not very big so it doesn't take that long to clean up it took me
about five minutes to clean the whole thing up and it's ready for use again now as far as cons go for
the saw i did spray water out kind of all over the place all over me the floor my workbench but
that is in the territory of doing lapidary saw work and i used to have a seven-inch tile saw
and that was a hundred times worse as far as water spray so i mean really it's not that big of a deal
but the other con that i would probably say is if this is your only saw you are limited to the size
of rocks that you can cut with the five inch blade they say to only use two thirds of the height of
the blade for what you're cutting and i mean you could rotate i've done it in the past but it's not
recommended again this is a trim saw it's intended for trimming up your slabs and getting them
prepared for polishing but ultimately i really do love this unit i'm happy to have it as part of my
lapidary arsenal and i'm going to be getting a ton of use out of it in the future and if you
guys are interested in this i'm going to share the link to it in the description box below and
if you already have this saw or any other saw and you need new saw blades or any other accessories
or supplies use promo code AGATEDAD to get a 10 discount the last thing i want to mention if you
have any questions that i didn't answer in this video about this uh or the tenants or any other
high-tech diamond saws please leave a comment in the video thank you guys so much for watching bye