Sharpening Cooks Super Sharp blades.

[petefrombearswamp]

I bought 30 Cooks blades last summer and they sent me a cam for my WM sharpener, but The cam lobe interferes with the pivot point on my sharpener mechanism so I can't sharpen them myself as yet.
Cook's rep is looking at the pics I sent to see if this can be corrected.
Does anyone know of  a sharpening service for these blades near my Central NYS location near Cortland  In case I can't get a cam that works?
Also, anyone out there using these blades on a WM and if so what tension do you use.
I used the same tension as WM blades and had 5 break at the weld. (cooks has credited my account for these)
thanks
pete

[Tom]

Pete,
breaks at the weld are seldome, if ever, considered to be a problem with the band or the machinary.  It's usually a welding fault that goes back to alignment, weld dressing or annealing.  Cooks, Woodmizer and most all of the manufacturers are good about standing behind that.

The stock of the two companies' bands is probably quite similar and I would think that the tension would be pretty much the same.

[jesse]

i have been using the cooks blades and just got a wood mizer sharpener with 2 cams the
9 29 seemed to work ok on the simonds red streak the 10-30 worked on the cooks super sharp with some filling on the cam a 1 1/4 cooks super sharp on the sharpener in the picture

[bandmiller2]

How are the Cooks supers different from say a Simonds regular band?I'd try the cam you have always used just take a light cut and see how it matches.Face angle is adjustable and most gullets are pretty close,sharp means more than slight differances in gullets.Frank C.