Just to prove I don't love EVERYTHING Makita
These blades are BS. I got them because they came with a free bag years ago, and I really just wanted the bag. It was a 50 pack of blades. The bag was/is great! The blades were tempered or something and they break so easily. If they bend, they will break, as opposed to other blades that you can hammer back several times with some authority. Maybe it was a bad batch, or maybe that was a clearance thing for them to improve these blades. Besides breakage, I liked them best for a fine cut in a 2x4 or smaller piece hopefully, like a triangular notch, where they do work fine. Other than that, look elsewhere. They may have stopped tempering by now. The other thing is they aren't even good on metal, even though they're "bi-metal". I do still have some of those 50 lingering, which is surprising, so at least I have something in a pinch, but I expect to use about 3 for any amount of work. There are also too many teeth and they're too fine, almost like a light duty jigsaw blade. This blade is suited to cutting a roll of tinfoil in half, which I don't do much. However, this is the one Makita failure anomaly that I've seen, and I really like their skil-saw blades (Diablo just as good tho), and their other blades are good too.
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