Oscillating tool sharpener - GIF

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Oscillating tools are very handy, but the cost of blades is outrageous. The tool is about. $50 (US) but, it looks just like multiple grinding wheels. The question becomes, how to you keep the wheels in proper shape?

They don't use wheels. The blades are not bad when you consider how much time and material they save. I repaired a spot where a hole had been cut for a staircase in the 70s. I couldn't recover enough good red oak original flooring and make it not look goofy (it was not centered or square), so I pulled out a larger area of flooring, using my oscillating saw to cut precise sections out stagger the new boards into the existing. I used a Menard's house brand metal blade to cut through the nails and a brand new Milwaukee blade made for hardwood to cut the existing flooring (I used a chop saw for the new flooring). I have three Nextec multitools, but since the blades are so easy to swap I usually only used one tool. There were a few times when my cut was off a hair, so I swapped on the diamond burr blade and sorted it. Then back to the saw blade.
The cost of the new blade paid off by reducing the number of boxes of new flooring I had to buy.


Neil