If you’re buying from temu or eBay, Chinese ones suck. If you buy directly from a manufacturer that makes thousands of different blades… quality is just as, or almost as good as OEM / local aftermarket.
I can see people wanting to buy clean cut because it’s made in USA - (ask them what country they buy their carbide from…but I guess manufactured in USA is still better than not )
Roet ones were made in Germany I believe. They weren’t bad, but were getting harder to get and I find these Chinese ones last longer. For the Roet ones we would cut a roll and put A new blade in every roll - otherwise we’d end up having the next roll not cut properly through everything since our rolls have so many cuts, and it’d take hours to weed. That’s why we looked at the Chinese ones… figured $1 per blade, swap it every roll and we’d be safe - and we did that for months.
But then we stopped… and our blades last half a dozen to a dozen rolls now. We started swapping out every few rolls, or every few days, or when we notice its getting bad. I think the one in right now is like 2 weeks old.... Those who hate on the chinese blades, Check if its a steel blade or an actual tungsten carbide blade. Theres a difference between the crap you get on Amazon/Ebay and from an actual tool manufacturer.
https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...4fhK&priceId=6317508098704566a332a6fecf719452 This is who we buy from - I think in all of our blade swaps, I've had 1 blade that wasnt cutting right.... Which we noticed the moment we put the blade in, its like the tip was slightly bent... Which could be from us putting it into the blade holder, or it could be a quality issue... but 1 out of hundreds of blades is alright with me considering you get 100 pack of less than the cost of 5 Cleancut blades
Same with Summa blades - Summa wanted $130usd per heavy duty blade... We buy them for $4 each direct from China - Couldn't find any local ones. On an OEM blade we can cut through 15ish rolls of magnetic - on a chinese blade we can cut through 10ish, sometimes more... but I'd say 10 on average. So it's not as good - for the $130 price, and a few blade swaps I can get 320 rolls vs 15 rolls cut.
Throw politics aside, and it doesn't make sense to buy local.... Before it did due to quality, but nowadays the quality isn't much different either.
