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Purchased this blade for a DeWalt 12-inch compound miter saw. Although the blade does a good job on most cuts, I honestly see no difference between this blade and my old Freud blade costing a little over half as much. I definitely would not spend the additional money for this blade again.
This blade cuts very smooth with no splintering. I replaced it with a Forest chop saw blade bucause I use Forest on most of my other saws and they work great but the Forest blade would not make the smooth cuts I needed so I went back to this Freud balde. I use this on my Delta 12" lazer chop saw for finish work. I had one of these for years and had it resharpened until the teeth could be sharpened no more. I have been woodworking for over 40 years and in my openion, this is the blade to use for finish work. There are other blades out there that will equal the performance of this blade but not at this price.
After setting up my new DeWalt sliding miter saw I decided I wanted a better blade for cabinet work, The first blade I bought was the 12-96T Freud Diablo, and after a few cuts I new that this was not the precision I wanted, so after reading the reviews I sent the Diablo back and ordered this blade, The blade runs smooth but the cut edges are torn out on the back side, and when I cut a piece of 5 1/2" base molding at a 45* the back side is splintered about 1/8" deep. I just bought a 10" Forrest WW11 for my table saw and WOW, from now on the Forrest is for me. For those who want to try the Freud good luck (as for me the Forrest chpmaster is my choice)
"The state of the art precision blades" that came on the saw left a lot to be desired I immediately ordered two of the LU85012 blades to tune up the saw. I build picture frames and sell wholesale. I used a dewalt miter saw with this blade for a year before buying one of the expensive double cut miter saws. Like always the cuts are glass smooth and make perfect joints I have used the blades for six months, making thousands of cuts on prefinished poplar moulding and they still make glass smooth cuts. I just ordered two more simply because they were on sale and I might need them next year.
Their heavy-duty rip cut blade gets my "best in class" award. I use them on my Ridgid 10" table saw, 10" Delta miter saw and on my Ridgid 12" sliding miter saw. I've yet to be disappointed with any Freud circular saw blades. The blades are noticeably quieter than other blades I've used.My usage is as an amateur woodworker. This particular blade was for my sliding miter saw and it has greately reduced the problem of rough cuts on hardwood veneer plywoods. I also use Freud combination and heavy-duty rip cut blades. To see some of my projects I invite you to visit my non-commercial website: Life After 50--One Man's Perspective. The link below will take you to my homepage where you'll find menu links to my woodworking hobby pages and photos.URL: http://home.earthlink.net/~tnhiker/lifeafter50onemansperspective/
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