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   DonaldCBrown | Jun 12, 2006 12:31am | #1

   There's a special blade made for Hardie siding. I got mine at Lowe's, and it had the Hardie name prominently displayed on the package. Very widely spaced teeth; maybe six or eight total.

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   Jamie_Buxton | Jun 12, 2006 06:14am | #2

   The downside to using a saw blade is that it makes horrible dust.  Unlike nice wood dust, this stuff is masonry dust, and is nasty.   I prefer the shears.  They may be a little slower, but they're much nicer to be around.   If you don't want to buy, tool rental yards have them.

   One example is http://www.porter-cable.com/index.asp?e=547&p=2857

   Oh.. one more downside to the saw blade is that the dust will kill your saw pretty quickly.

   
   

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   Edited 6/11/2006 11:15 pm ET by Jamie_Buxton