PSA: I wrote off those fancy diamond blades as overpriced junk until I tried one on a job

I used to just grab the cheapest blade at the supply house, figured a blade is a blade right. Then I had to cut through some really hard old brick on a church restoration downtown and burned through three cheap blades in one morning. My foreman handed me his diamond blade and told me to shut up and try it. That one blade lasted the whole rest of the week and cut cleaner too. Now I spend the extra $40 and don't look back. Anyone else have a tool they were dead wrong about?

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taylor_mitchell803d ago

That diamond blade thing hits close to home. What kind of brick was it exactly? I'm asking because I deal with this all the time on different job sites and I've noticed some blades are made for soft red brick and some are made for that super hard engineering brick from the 1920s. Did your foreman's blade have a specific type of segment on it or was it just a regular continuous rim? I've got a buddy who swears by the turbo rim blades for thick stone but I don't know if that would overheat on regular masonry. Just trying to figure out if there's a sweet spot for the price or if you really do need to spend top dollar every time.

robert643d agoMost Upvoted

Wait, does @taylor_mitchell80's buddy use that turbo rim on a wet saw or dry? I had a foreman once who tried a turbo rim on some old 1920s engineering brick and it gummed up within five minutes, total waste of money. You really gotta match the blade to the brick or you're just burning cash, plain and simple.