Milwaukee’s wood cutting, ultra-fine finish blades provide a smooth finish and cutting efficiencies to improve your productivity. A High-ATB tooth pattern provides a superior finish with minimal 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. 10 in. blades are ring tensioned to further stabilize the blade. 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
- High alternate-tooth bevel (ATB) pattern
- Cobalt infused tungsten carbide
- Thin kerf blade
- Optimized for both cordless and corded tools
- Blade tensioning ring
- 80-tooth; 5/8 in. arbor hole
- Great for use with: softwoods, hardwoods, malamine, MDF, veneered plywoods, paneling and moldings
Merritt Blick (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.)
Treva Nitzsche (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.
Teagan Gleichner (verified owner) –
This is a first rate saw blade. With 60 teeth, it is most often thought of as a plywood blade. But I wanted to try it on maple, wenge, padauk, and purpleheart. I was making some end grain cutting boards and needed very smooth cuts on the edges for my glue ups. I had to cut just a bit off all the edges to straighten the boards, as shown in the photos. The blade performed very well. The cuts, even on the wenge (which is a very hard wood) was clean and crisp and allowed my glue ups to go without issue. Maple can also be a problem at times as I have had saw blades chatter when finishing the cut. That did not happen with this blade. Very smooth and very precise.
Theodore Okuneva (verified owner) –
Cuts through oak like butter!
Russ Kris (verified owner) –
Smooth and accurate cutting for my circular saw. The fine cuts really give wood a nice finish. I have yet to try it on other material but it rips through heavy duty lumber easily.
Theresia Jast (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.
Dax Botsford (verified owner) –
THIS A GREAT PORTABLE SAW. WORKS ALL DAY ON A 5 AMP BATTERY .
Calista Parker (verified owner) –
Extremely smooth cuts on detailed trimwork. So much better than the stock blade.
Janet Haag (verified owner) –
Outstanding clean cuts. Normal Milwaukee quality and it works great in the Milwaukee M18 Fuel saw.
Dena Blanda (verified owner) –
Great blade, had a ton of oak to cut and it held up well.
Ursula Nolan (verified owner) –
Worth every penny. Loved this and it gave a nice clean cut.
Deshawn Durgan (verified owner) –
Great quality works good.
Michele Blick (verified owner) –
Cuts very clean. We have a lot of miles on this blade cutting log siding and it looks like new. Highly recommend. Very durable.
Judah Hauck (verified owner) –
Good blade! Lots of 4×4 cuts and still in good shape.
Oswaldo Block (verified owner) –
This drill has been excellent to use in my glass shop every day! It will not let you down!
Joanie Wolf (verified owner) –
No problem works well just what I needed
Genoveva Fritsch (verified owner) –
A lot of times I work on projects like book shelves, work benches, and other things where a finer blade than the ‘framing’ type blade I normally use is necessary. The choice of the Milwaukee 40-tooth blade was a great choice. Whether cutting lumber, plywood, or MDF, it makes a very clean cut and does an excellent job. I got one for my circular saw and one for my table saw. Changing blades only takes a couple minutes, and was time and money well spent.
Robbie Monahan (verified owner) –
Good price and quality
Ashleigh Nienow (verified owner) –
MIlwauki saw blades always give me good service and stand up well, even with poor quality wood products. I just use as directed and keep them sharp. I use the fine finish blades for MDF and Melamine to get a great cut for shelves and such, no sanding required. These blade are also coated with something like an anti-stick layer that keeps them from gumming up like uncharted blade sometimes do with laminates and rough plywood.
Rogelio Hill (verified owner) –
Used on my table saw very smooth cuts no splintering. Great blade