Customer Reviews

Freud LU91R012 12-Inch 72 Tooth ATB Thin Kerf Sliding Miter Saw Blade with 1-Inch Arbor and PermaShield Coating

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The LU91R012 is a very good all around trim blade for all soft and hard wood trim. It works especially well with sliding miter saws. The thin kerf is a must for fine trim cuts and I wouldn't buy a blade without a perma-shield coating. I've been building custom homes for 25yrs. and know saw blades.

I bought this blade for my bosch miter saw and it does a great job. Really smooth and quiet with minimal splintering. The finished cut requires hardly any sanding. This is my first Freud blade and I think
all of my saws are going to get one. A little pricy, but you get what you pay for!

I ordered this blade expecting it to fit on my miter saw just as my other 12" blades did. Unfortunately, the manufacturer decided that 1/4" smaller in diameter was acceptable. It isn't, as it won't even cut through the wood fully. When measured against all other 12" blades I own, this one is 11 3/4" in diameter, where all others are precisely 12".

Freud blades are awesome, and I'll buy them whenever I can. This is one instance where I wish I hadn't wasted my time. If you sell a 12" blade, make sure it is actually 12" in diameter.

I purchased this Freud Industrial class blade from Amazon for use in my Ridgid sliding compound miter saw some time back, and it has worked in a championship way. It cuts clean, although it is no speed demon, and one thing it can do well is cut shallow dado grooves with no tear out. I did this when cutting 45-degree angle embellishments on two picture frames I recently built. Standard crosscuts are very clean as well.

I recently purchased a Freud Diablo class D1280X (Diablo is Freud's mid-level line), also from Amazon, and found that in some ways it equaled and even surpassed the LU91. (I reviewed the D1280X blade on Amazon, too.) For one thing, in spite of having more teeth (80 vs 72), it cuts faster. This is because instead of a negative hook angle it has a slightly positive one. The positive hook allows the blade to lift sawdust into the dust port at the back of the saw. (Sliding miter saws are not particularly good at scavenging dust, so I modified the saw by installing a removable dust scoop under the port to facilitate the scavenging process.)

The negative hook of the LU91 is its one weak point, although it was designed that way to perform a safty action. Negative hook angles are utilized in order to keep the back of the blade from lifing the workpiece and thereby endangering the operator. However, if the saw is aligned properly and the workpiece is held decently tight (or, better yet, clamped), lift is just not a big deal. I have never had a workpiece lift in a miter saw, with any blade. The negative hook of the LU91, its safty factor notwithstanding, tends to fling sawdust straight back, UNDER the dust port, thereby building up a lot of dust on the saw. Even the best dust port would be unable to deal with this artifact.

So, while the blade cuts well, and probably slightly surpasses the D1280X (which costs only a bit more than half as much), the user does need to understand that the back of the saw (and maybe the shop area behind the saw if used indoors) may become a bit dusty.

Every blade offers advantages and disadvantages, and the choices involve tradeoffs.

In any case, I recommend this blade, but only for precision work that requires a bit more finesse than what the cheaper Freud Diablo D1280X can deliver.

Howard Ferstler (husband of Debra Ferstler)

I wish they made a blade with a standard kerf. I prefer the stiffness of the thicker blade. it allows for a smoother and slightly more accurate cut. This blade is better than the standard blade that came with my DeWalt Miter Saw. It's also better than a DeWalt I purchased with more teeth.

I ordered this blade on the reccomendation of a friend for my Makita compound sliding mitre saw. The saw came with a Makita blade, but this Freud blade is so smooth I was amazed. I used it recently to make a new seat for my Pirog which has multiple bevel angels on every cut. It worked awesome.

I am using this on my sliding miter saw and am very happy. I recently made a solid walnut dining table and use my miter saw constantly for the project. This blade cut through solid walnut with ease, no burning, and little to now tearout. The think kerf is also nice to conserve expensive wood. I haven't noticed any wabble and it seems to be very very accurate. I would definately recommend this blade.

Cuts softwood and hardwood extremely well, nice clean cut with little to no tear-out. Works great with a Ridgid 12" dual compound sliding miter saw.

Completely impressed with this blade. It mates up well with my Milwaukee 12" sliding compound miter saw. An important performance feature is the 5 degree negative hook, which is in the range recommended by Milwaukee for sliding compound. Add the other features of this blade and you get a great performer.

i was expecting the item and i waited for this to come and it didnt arive so i contacted them and they refunded my money all good
but wile i was waiting for the new blades i didnt buy one for the saw i use every day as i thought it wont be long now and they will arive but they didnt and the blade got worse and worse and the damage i have done to the saw wasnt good it went back to be repaired [i know its my fult useing a blunt blade but if you say you are sending something then send it dont waste my time
so for a refund 5 stars for the product 0 stars but i have to give 1