Milwaukee’s wood cutting, fine finish blades provide cleaner cuts and cutting efficiencies to improve your productivity. An ATB tooth pattern minimizes tearout in the cut material. An anti-friction coating keeps the blade cool while cutting and resists corrosion and gumming. Laser cutting technology creates the blade from 100% sheet steel to ensure a stable blade that increases cutting accuracy. Laser cut vibration slots minimize wobble and warping during use. A thin kerf design delivers faster cuts as well as more cuts per charge when using a cordless tool.
- Anti-friction coating
- Laser cut from sheet steel
- Polymer filled vibration slots
- Alternate-tooth bevel (ATB) pattern
- Cobalt infused tungsten carbide
- Thin kerf blade
- Optimized for both cordless and corded tools
- 40-tooth; 5/8 in. arbor hole with diamond knock-out
- Great for use with: softwoods, hardwoods, malamine, MDF, veneered plywoods, wet lumber, treated lumber and laminated woods such as plywood, OSB, LVL, PSL, LSL and OSL
Ryleigh McGlynn (verified owner) –
Used on my table saw very smooth cuts no splintering. Great blade
Fatima Graham (verified owner) –
I’m a trim carpenter for the past twenty years. One of the best blades for the money. I have tried a lot of them. Great product.
Camren Borer (verified owner) –
Nice blade, but did not fit my Milwaukee, to small arbor.
Quincy Bahringer (verified owner) –
This is the Milwaukee 48-40-1228, 12” by 100-tooth (Ultra Fine) standard kerf (1/8”) saw blade (note that the package nowhere states the kerf—I measured it. It’s strange that the Home Depot website calls it a “Thin kerf blade” in the description, which usually refers to a kerf less than 1/8”). It has an anti-friction coating and the vibration slots are filled with a polymer, supposedly to reduce vibrations even more than using just the slots. The tooth pattern is ATB (alternate-tooth bevel). Milwaukee claims that the blade can be used with softwoods, hardwoods, melamine, MDF, veneered plywood, paneling and moldings.It’s worth noting that the blade comes in an easy-open package. In Photo 1 you can see the perforations (in the plastic and cardboard) allowing you to open the package from the back quite easily.Before installing the blade on my 12”, non-sliding miter saw, I check it for flatness. Out of the package it was perfectly flat all across the blade. I installed the blade in my 20+ year-old miter saw (see Photo 2)—nothing makes an old saw work like new like a new blade. I was not disappointed, in fact, I came away quite impressed. I tested the blade on some very hard 2×6 White Oak. I hate to use that over-used phrase, “like a hot knife through butter,” but there’s no other way to describe it. And the cuts were clean. I really like this saw blade.
Erling Hamill (verified owner) –
So far saw has been great, looking forward to the next project to give it another test.
Mariela Hodkiewicz (verified owner) –
Great quality works good.
Matilde Weissnat (verified owner) –
Cuts like butter. As clean a cut as I could hope for. Amazing quality!
Virginia Hauck (verified owner) –
Top notch quality; working at my expectations.
Luther Robel (verified owner) –
These new blades from Milwaukee are a great quality and an awesome price. The alternating top bevel teeth on this one aren’t quite as steep an angle as the larger 10″ and 12″ blades of the same series, but they still help provide a clean cut while avoiding tearout.The anti-friction coating works really well and I haven’t noticed it rubbing off on any of my workpieces either. This blade is significantly cheaper with similar performance to the other 36T blades I was using for my Milwaukee M12 FUEL circular saw – I’m glad to see them jumping into manufacturing high quality blades to go with their tools.
Ollie Schumm (verified owner) –
Great blade, had a ton of oak to cut and it held up well.
Jett Bergstrom (verified owner) –
I needed new blades for my small cordless circular saw and thought the Milwaukee blade would be worth a try. The description of a fine finish 36 tooth blade made me wonder about the “fine finish” performance that this blade would produce. I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised. I immediately bolted it onto my saw and tried it on some scrap pieces of trim that I had. These pieces were already finished, so I thought that would be a good test for the “fineness”. On the ¾” quarter round, it did a nice job but there were some very small splinters chipped out. You really had to look to see them and they could have been covered with a little stain and would never be noticeable. Next I tried the blade on a piece of 5” baseboard that was also finished. The same for this piece, small pieces splintered out. I then did what I frequently do with this type of wood and taped the line where I was going to cut with painters tape. That took care of the splintering issue and the pieces looked great. The saw went through it smoothly and easily.I then thought I would try it on a 2” X 4”. It went through the board very easily and left a very nice cut. There was also a little soft wood splintering on the end. It didn’t matter on this piece, as it was going into framing for a wall. I was very happy with this cut also.I love these little cordless saws, as I frequently need to cut only a piece of two, and dislike dragging out a long extension cord for the bigger power saw and really don’t like getting out my miter saw on a stand if I don’t have to. A lot of my work is at remote locations anyway and there may be electrical service nearby, or there may not be. This little blade does the trick and I will definitely buy more of them.
Marcellus Jerde (verified owner) –
I have several saw blades with different tooth counts for cutting different types of material. My blade for cutting finished plywood and other thin woods was worn out. I’ve been having good luck with Milwaukee products lately and this saw blade is no exception. It cuts very easily and leaves as smooth a cut as you could expect. There is no binding to the wood and no extra load on the motor. It’s like cutting butter. If it lasts a while, which it appears it will, I’ll be very happy.
Oda Heidenreich (verified owner) –
I have been using this blade in a rigid contractors saw for a few weeks. I have used it on a variety of thicknesses with very equal outcome. The blade does a good job on plywood and MDF materials. I have also used it on pine lumber of differing thickness. I have no complaints and the blade cuts like the wood is soft as butter. This must be from the laser cut to help cut wobble and vibration. Milwaukee came out with a good blade.
Brisa Hamill (verified owner) –
Works as expected. Very difficult to get out of thick plastic packaging. I ended up splitting the paper package apart and then releasing the blade.. The Milwaukee logo is printed on the wrong side of the blade so does not show when it is on the saw! (This would show correctly if the blade went on the left side of the saw. My saw has the blade on the right.)
Meggie Quitzon (verified owner) –
THIS A GREAT PORTABLE SAW. WORKS ALL DAY ON A 5 AMP BATTERY .
Alberta Davis (verified owner) –
No. I needed a 3in blade.
Heidi Bogisich (verified owner) –
This drill has been excellent to use in my glass shop every day! It will not let you down!
Candida Rau (verified owner) –
The blade arrived in good condition and worked very well, it cut through the paneling like butter. I would recommend this blade to anyone looking to get a clean cut with a hand circular saw.Al S
Blair Bergstrom (verified owner) –
The blade has a uniform coating; lies flat and is well-balanced at no-load running speed in my saw. I used it overhead in a sliding compound miter saw to cut paint grade poplar crown moldings. There was no chipping or tear outs. On walnut and cherry built-up crown assemblies I got similar results by judiciously lowering my cutting speed (blade advance speed). Even long tapered back slash joints required no sanding prior to assembly. Also I decided to put the blade in a table saw and produce some cabinet panels from hardwood veneer plywood. Of course I worked with finish side and face-down. Of several species tested, none produced splinters. I attribute those fine cuts to the high angle of the alternate tooth bevel. This seems to have the same effect as pre-scoring the cut line. I did not measure the angle with a protractor; but it does appear that the pitch of the tooth chisel edges versus the plane of the blade is steeper than that on many similar products. The blade did not gum up or scorch. Because of its fine results thus far, I do not think it sensible to dedicate this blade to high production rates; so I’ve not tested it under rapid use conditions. I will, however, continue to look at its longevity until sharpening – and until visible deterioration of the coating. So far, so good.
Hanna Franecki (verified owner) –
The blade came on the date I was told it would arrive which is always nice. I mounted the blade on may Hitachi chop saw and it cut wood like it was warm butter. Smooth, clean cuts and fast. So I amtotally satisfied with the blade I ordered and will undoubtedly order more as well as other things down the line.