"BUB 209" wrote in message
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What's the best brand of thin kerf 12" blades for a 12" DeWalt sliding
com-
pound miter saw? It seems like the saw is a bit underpowered and I don't
want to use the thicker blades, and the cheap thin blades cut like they're
dull from the git go. Maybe you have to live with a blade that has less
teeth?
I've been using the 60-80 tooth ones.

Perhaps the best brand is Forrest.

But do you want to give up accuracy for speed? Thin kerf blades will flex.
If it were me I would stick with the regular kerf and probably a Forrest and
feed slower. That said however you might find that a premium regular kerf
blade like the Forrest may very cut faster than an average thin kerf blade.
As a side note, I once had a Craftsman 1 hp TS. I used thin kerf
exclusively but was never really happy with the wavy cuts. My local
sharpener talked me in to a regular kerf Systematic blade. I never went
back to a thin kerf blade.