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they don't last long and they are costly,, so use them only when nothing else will do. this is a great tool when you need it. The blades are the only problem i see with this tool.
I recenly added an additional front door to my house and managed to recover all of the old trim and was able to reuse it. great for working on previouly existing stuff without destroying it such as moldings. warning save your cuts for those you really need to use with this tool (use another tool if access isn't an issue because the blades wear out super quick and are really expensive) having said all that I don'y know how I did without it all this time If you are a do it yourselfer and are easily frustrated by not having the right tool for the job at the moment, if this tool is near by I guarantee you you will use it Although the tool is too expensive there is quite nothing like it. put simply you can do things with this tool and fit it into places where no other tool would go.
Other than being very expensive the product is great, does what they say it will do.
The thing oscillated itself and me at 30000+ or whatever RPM in a way that almost numbed the forearms. I wasn't in the mood to overexert myself for sloppy (possibly unacceptable) work, so off to woodcraft. "Get me the fine" sounds like a sentence fragment, so the word "stout" comes to mind. Then I sanded some, edged some windowsills, casually cut a piece of PVC just to save me the trip for something else, and tomorrow I'm doing some metal cutting.
Try cutting a small piece of melamime out from underneath a counter and behind a sink with 4" to the wall with anything else, I dare you. I have yet to top it out and can't forsee a situation that will demand it.sometimes I end up nicknaming tools. So I caved. The amount of work it saved paid for a good chunk of it. After I bought it, I quickly realized how many uses I had for it. This thing adds precision and saves 70% of the time.
Although a bit shocking, the power wasn't unmanageable, and it got the job done. I hate sanding, who wants to carry a sander around. Cutting through the 1.5" glued mdf with this oscillating saw took some serious power. So, I turned it up a good twist and it became quite an unpleasant tool to use. So I saw some painted over epoxy from behind a backsplash, and scraped it away no problem. After I *nearly* bogged it down on maybe 1/3 or 1/2 power it jolted me a good bit, but the fein and I escaped unscathed, barely. The amount of frustration it reduced saved me.
So I'll avoid it as best as I can and have a back up plan just in case, and if worse comes to worse, I'll sand with my saw/scraper/metal cutting/grout remover, and complain about it a bit.Build is top notch - solid and sturdy, even a bit heavy, more than most of even the best tools.I'm going to avoid using the wood blades unless the job demands the Fein.By the way, this thing is powerful. It's so frustrating to gouge at something with a putty knife or chisel or scraper and have the work come hard, slow, and mediocre. An extra long chisel, an olympic hammer arm in contortionist mode, and an eyeful of shavings might have sloppily done the job. The scraper is perhaps my favorite feature.
I was surprised by how well it could cut into wood. New blades are extremely expensive.
But there are some jobs that no other tool can do. Some people are making their own blades (do a web search) to try to avoid the cost.
The Fein multimaster is a good, well made tool. These blades quickly wear out and have to be replaced.
It can plunge cut and it is great for precise woodworking. Very powerful.
The biggest problem, however, is the cost of the blades.
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