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

I needed to cut off some pressure treated 4x4 posts. I’d taken down a structure and cut off the 4x4s close to the concrete but there was about 1” sticking up out of the concrete pad. I had 6 of them, they were a trip hazard. This blade on an angle grinder did a nice job shaving the 4x4 down to ground level. I hadn’t used one before. It was controllable. You must use full eye protection. Usually I rely on my polycarbonate corrective lenses but I used full goggles when using this blade. Even with the angle grinder guard in place, the sawdust comes back at you pretty hard. With the angle grinder at 10,000 RPM, the tip speed is about 133 MPH. I was covered in sawdust. This blade cuts rapidly, the surface is a little ripply, I’m sure I can make it flatter with practice. I’d buy this blade again.

I carved several 20" diameter, 15" long segments of a tree into bowls using this blade.

This is a monster and excellent addition for your angle grinder ONLY if you are extremely careful!!!! This can be a very dangerous blade! I've been wood working and using my grinder, chainsaw, axe, table saw, skil saw, ect... now for 20+ years without incident and this thing gave me 4 stitches the same day it came in the mail. I had to get into a tight spot in a wall where the previous owner placed plywood instead of sheetrock. Perfect tool for the job, but there was a hidden nail from the other side. I was very slow, careful, and precise with my cut, but when it hit the nail, it felt like the grinder was hit with a sledge hammer. It flew out of my hands, ripped through the electrical wiring, ripped my thick leather gloves and gave me a deep lasting scar all within a second while the grinder was winding down. This is no joke friends. It works where others can't, but you must use face and hand protection. That may not even be enough, but you'll be thankful for those gloves on the way to the emergence room.

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 am an experienced woodcarver with over 40 years of experience using side grinders for carving. I mostly use the chainsaw discs for bulk removal. I used this disc on dry live oak, and it cut it like butter very effective tool. It doesn't grab as aggressively as the chainsaw disc but cuts just as fast. You will need to keep the guard on your grinder and wear face protection as it will throw shards of wood.

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.

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.

Because of the fact there are only 3 cutters, accuracy is minimal. And bounce is very scary. Anyone that's used a grinder knows you MUST, be careful which side of the grinder to hit with. One side pulls it away from you and the other throws it at you therefore cutting certain woods can practically jerk the tool out of your hand. Even with the handle on the grinder this blade needs constant control. One mistake and could be the last. Be careful!

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I got GRAFF SPEEDCUTTER and GRAFF Turmit. Turmit does a good job, easy controllable. SPEEDCUTTER is beast. It cut so easy and so well. Gently move the disk and it does a job. Highly recommended, love this disc.

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Really great cutter for wood. Avoid metal screws! It will ruin this blad. Fast, almost no kickback, smooth cutting