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Great deal I guess… but I’m not so happy with the blades

There is no doubt that you get a lot of blade for the money with this combo pack and I’m happy to have the blades for some applications. However, I’ve been disapointed with the performance of the 80 tooth blade.

I’ve had trouble with a few things, the first is that when cutting a bevel (saw tilted), I see quite a bit of deflection in the blade on anything but the smallest of stock. Cutting 3/4 pine caused this blade to deflect, thus bind, thus burn, and leaves me with an uneven cut. I’m confident that it’s not my saw (Delta TwinLaser - 15 amp motor) because other blades work well.

The other thing I don’t love is that it takes forever to wear the yellow paint off the blades with cuts - and so every cut has a hint of yellow for quite a long time. Not a big deal, but kind of unecessary.

To round it out, I’m just not that happy with the cut even when it’s straight down. I get chipping or tear-out on almost any kind of lumber that I’ve tried… red oak, pine, poplar, etc. It doesn’t matter how fast or slow I make the cut. While that’s a pain, I will say that the center of the cut is very smooth.

The rough cut blade does do a fine job for cutting framing lumber straight up and down - very fast. I have not needed to use that for a bevel cut, but I would guess it has the same problem.

So, if you do rough cut work and don’t have a need to make bevel cuts, these are probably a great deal. If your needs are more, then I would say spend your money on some better blades.

Update (2/7/2012): I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, DeWalt DW3128P5 Series 20 12-Inch 80 Tooth & 12-inch 32T ATB Thin Kerf Crosscutting Miter Saw Blade with 1-Inch Arbor, 2 Pack Tools & Hardware, was written by TimInChicago.

The average rating for this item is 4.3 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.