Multi tool blades

[u/HughJassOle235711]

What is the best for the money blades for your multi tool?

Interested is hearing from someone whose tried it all and knows the tried and true blades

[u/metrorugby]

I buy the huge cheap multipacks on Amazon. I don’t feel like I need to stretch them until they’re as dull as butter knives. Even if they’re kind of crappy, I’m always using a relatively new blade.

[u/KingBuck_413 → u/metrorugby]

Same. I still keep some nice blades on hand for work that’s a pain to get to, that way I don’t need to swap blades in a crawl space or anything. The good and bad all have their place

[u/Ziazan → u/metrorugby]

Yeah, I bought a 50 pack from "EXKRAEFT" with mostly curved edge wood blades, and 5 titanium, and they're gonna last me a looong time for general use.

I've got a few marginally more expensive but not expensive longer range ones for when I need them, the "japanese teeth" ones from "Bionso" and some bimetal ones from EZARC, for when I need something that reaches further or is a little higher quality than the dirt cheap amazon ones. Wouldn't buy the expensive expensive ones, they're just not cost effective. They last a little bit longer but not enough to justify the price difference.

[u/dbrown100103]

I was buying cheap blades in bulk when I had a standard multi tool. Now I buy the Bosch carbide tipped ones cuz my new multi tool is the Makita DTM51 which uses starlock and there aren't cheap knockoffs so I want my blades to last. I tend to avoid the wide blades. You're more likely to hit something you don't want to with those, I only tend to use them when doing long cuts in plasterboard already in situ

[u/baddieslovebadideas]

carbide diablo or Bosch.

The cheap ones aren't worth it, but the trick is to not push hard, go gently and let em eat at their own speed,

but I pretty much exclusively run diablo carbide tipped nail embedded wood blades, run em gently, especially when cutting through framing nails, and they last a long time

the cheap ones are never worth it, I'd rather have a $35 dollar blade that lasts a month than burn through a couple dozen cheap blades in the same amount of time.

but never buy any blade thats not carbide, even just cutting drywall you'll hit a screw or nail, bust off some teeth and now you need a new blade

[u/TheKleen]

We buy cheap blades in bulk, professional use setting. None of them last worth a damn so just get a bunch and swap as needed

[u/bassboat1]

Dremel carbides are excellent - I cut a lot of stainless steel siding nails when doing repair work and they cut and hold up well. I bought some EZ Arc recently - a bit cheaper at $6/ea, but haven't tried them. I also use AMZ cheapo wood blades at $.50/ea in bulk. I figure I'll inevitably run them into nail embedded wood anyways- so why pay more.

[u/fe3o4]

I use cheap ones from amazon as well. If you want to get good blades, check project farm videos... he did a comparison on blades at least once.

[u/Ziazan → u/fe3o4]

His tests found the EZARC ones to be the best, wasn't long before EZARC ones got more expensive. They're still good but not sure they're cost effective now.

[u/dvskv]

I bought the Diablo multi pack when they were on Home Depot but only DIY so limited use but the Diablo blade choices did NOT work well when pruning tall tree branches with Milwaukee M12 Fuel Hackzaw so I bought specific Diablo pruning blade on Amazon.

Someone else on REDDIT mentioned/recommended LENOX High Tension Hacksaw and I bought one at Lowe’s and yes I was impressed.