Cheap Irwin Tools 24233 10-Inch by 24 Teeth Miter or Table Saw Blade with 5/8-Inch Arbor Review
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Forrest has a great reputation with their wood saw blades. This blade (made for non-ferrous metals) is in every way an equal. The cut on extruded aluminum is so smooth that you can run your fingers over the cut without worrying about getting a metal sliver. We have not needed to use a file to clean up any of the cuts so far.
Maybe, someday, it will wear down enough to cut as poorly as other blades...
If you need to cut expensive veneered sheet goods with a hand circular saw, this is the blade to get. It's pricey, but it's the only one I've used that doesn't produce splintering or tear-out in the material.
Bought 2 at this reasonable price. Great thin kerf blade with fine cut. Cuts as good as Frued blades I've paid 3 times as much for. The Makita seems to have a little more drag because it is not coated. I can feel the difference when ripping 3 1/2" thick pine.
This blade is such a nice bargain. For around , it comes close to my Infinity, Forrest, and Ridge Carbide blades, and holds its own against my many of my mid level Freud, Tenryu, and CMT blades, some of which cost nearly twice as much. For a 50T blade it feeds surprisingly easily, enabling it to go through thick stock more easily than most similar blades. Crosscuts were very clean, and rip cuts give glue ready edges. It's very versatile overall, and easy for smaller saws to spin, though the swirl marks are slightly more pronounced than those left by my Infinity Super General, Freud LU88, and Forrest WWII.
My complaint...the paint job and letting are a bit sloppy. It took a bit of sanding the coating out of the bore to get it to mount to the arbor, and I'm finding that the lettering smudges off pretty easily, but other than that I'm quite pleased. Super choice for an all around workhorse on a non-industrial table saw, and should be fine for general miter saw work (the hook is too steep for a sliding miter saw though). Plus, the bright yellow makes it really easy to find in my rack! It was also nice to see that its made in the UK, and not in China. I would have rated it 5-stars for the price had it not been for needing to cleanup the arbor hole.
This saw blade is very good adquisition for the price. I make cabinets and this saw blade work very good. I obtained a quality cuts with this blade.
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