✕CHOOSE A DIFFERENT TOOL WHEN
- Close work, and everything that doesn't need reach.
- At the frame, the inspection table, and any station where the cut is within a hand's easy reach, the 086 is more blade than the job wants — the 6" flats (080, 081, 087) do that work with less flex and less wasted steel.
- It is not a stub or a high-force blade — the .109" heavies take short, hard cuts the long 086 would bow under.
- It is not a bevel-backed blade for dense grabby stock — that is the bevel grinds' job.
- And it is not a paper-roll slabbing knife — the 8" square points own that.