GRAFF SPEEDCUTTER 5 Inch Wood Carving Disc for Angle Grinder - Circular Saw Blade for Cutting, Sculpting & Shaping - 7/8 Inch Arbor - 125mm

This monster does the job like right now!I shape oak for art pieces. Before I found out about it, I cut slits in wood and chiseled them out. Wrong. Then I started using a 7 inch circular saw freehand, which is exciting and effective. People stay out of your way.Then a woodworker recommended this tool. Thank you! This wheel works as fast as the circular saw, and for freehand work this wheel cuts more cleanly. Also, with this wheel, a 7 amp grinder doesn't buck wildly and threaten to cut your thigh to the bone.I considered getting a chainsaw grinder wheel. Imagine the possibilities. Find chainsaw wheels right here on amazon. You will also find fairly gruesome pictures of wounds inflicted by grinders with chainsaw wheels. It's this way: you have to take off the safety shield to use a chainsaw wheel, and, well, you get the picture. I did not buy a chainsaw wheel.You have to take off the safety shield with this wheel too, but it's well designed and behaves well. With both hands firmly on the grinder, I feel relatively safe and do my work quickly and fairly accurately.This tool is only for experienced grinder users. I work with steel and I burn through grinders. I've never hurt myself grinding or cutting steel and I don't expect to hurt myself using this wheel carefully on wood. However, if you're relatively new to using an angle grinder, I suggest thinking again. Chaps or whatever won't save you. If this tool slips, there will be blood.There may be other, dedicated tools for rough shaping wood, but for less than $20, you can't beat this simple grinder wheel.Highly recommended. But BE CAREFUL!

I bought this blade to shorten a tree stump that I cut down a couple of years ago; I try to cut stumps short enough that they won't interfere with lawn mowers but this one was tricky; it was on a slightly slanted section of ground and one side was a tad too tall; I could mow over it, but my neighbor apparently uses a lower height setting and would 'clip it' occasionally. You can do costly damage to a lawn tractor, so I trimmed it down to a more ground-following level with this blade. I wasn't sure the blade would work. CAUTION! There IS a 'Learning Curve' with this puppy. People claim that this style blade produces no kickback but I quickly discovered that it has SIGNIFICANT, very difficult to control kickback. Luckily, I was holding it firmly when I touched it to the stump. It is a VERY aggressive blade that wants to dig in and move backward with a lot of force. That's what I meant, saying that this blade has a 'Learning Curve'. I adopted a flatter approach... more like the way you butter a piece of toast. Let the side of the blade contact the wood first. And if you're doing any kind of artistic carving with this blade on a high-speed grinder; I'd advise you to practice a few strokes on a less valuable piece of wood first, get an idea of the forces you're working with. And hold the tool tightly. It's a wonderful tool that will remove a lot of wood, quickly, just be careful, practice 'Tool Safety' and hold on tight. Good Luck.

Yes it's an excellent tool, it certainly cuts and carves thru wood like butter, but...Because it is so incredibly easy to use, it gives a false sense of security, a false sense of, "I've got this under control," until...I was using it to shape flooring around door jars.I started off securing the hard substrate flooring piece I was cutting into a vice.That was fine, until I couldn't get the tool into the area I needed.Most of you know what I mean.So I held the plank instead.Hey, worked great for me.And I was flying through laying down the flooring.Then my work college asked to use it.I let him, but with extreme caution.I was actually hesitant to let him, he was the fast slap kinda guy.Right away he loved it, then started mocking me at how I kept the cool tools to myself, etc.Then it happened.He wasn't using a vice to hold the wood, instead he hand held it, and the angle grinder bit into the wood a little too hard.He kept his arm, just.But he never completed that job.This is a serious review, perhaps too graphic to be accepted, but if it saves you from taking your arm off due to overconfidence, then it's worth writing.I believe if it hadn't happened to him, it would have happened to me eventually.ALWAYS SECURE WHAT YOU'RE CUTTING AND USE 2 HANDS ON THE ANGLE GRINDER. EVEN THO IT FEELS LIKE BUTTER, BECAUSE IT DOES sometimes BITE.Overall, excellent tool. Use with extreme respect.

This is a review of 2 Amazon items used together, the Freud DS0903CP3 Diablo 9" Carbide Pruning Reciprocating Blade and the GRAFF SPEEDCUTTER 5 Wood Carving Disc for Angle Grinder - Circular Saw Blade for Cutting, Sculpting & Shaping - 7/8" Arbor - 125mm.I have a few stumps in the yard that I wanted to remove. I shoveled off the top layer of dirt to expose part of the roots. I used a reciprocating saw with a standard DeWalt pruning blade and each blade would become dull after cutting 1 or 2 roots, causing the saw blade to start smoking and would not cut anymore, which is typical when you expose any sharp blade to dirt - but not the Diablo blade . The Diablo kept cutting through roots while laughing at the surrounding dirt like it was not there. I also got a head start on the larger roots by first cutting through as much as possible with the GRAFF SPEEDCUTTER 5 Wood Carving Disc for Angle Grinder. This is a beast on a 4.5/5 inch cordless Hercules angle grinder and does the heavy lifting through 3/4 of the exposed 2 inch roots and I cut the rest with the Diablo blades, along with the smaller roots. I then put rope around the remaining stump and pulled it out with a 4,900 lb winch, again using the Diablo when a remaining root under tension became exposed. Happy days playing in the dirt.