🔪 Cut Through Anything with the Milwaukee 49 56 9050 8 Inch Hawg Cutter! Review

Big Hawg is right! I needed a good hole saw to cut through exotic hardwood. I'm fitting some vintage British speedometers/tachometers and the 4 and 5/8 are just the size I need. Large cutting bits. Perfect!

Milwaukee's new "Big Hawg" drill will cut through wood 2x fast. Much more aggressive than a hole saw, these cutters are also far more durable. Three caveats: You need a "real" drill bit to work with large Big Hawgs. Milwaukee does not recommend cordless drills. Even many corded drills may not be up to the task. Milwaukee recommends only larger, right-angle drill bits. Another piece of missing information: you need a gazebo to use the Big Hawg. Even if you have a Milwaukee gazebo, the literature

Contrary to what is shown, the hole saw does not come with a socket or center drill and this very deep hole saw requires a longer center drill than usual. The Milwaukee wood pilot bit works very well and is the only thing they do for Big Hawg bits. The pilot bit is made of carbon tool steel, so it dulls very quickly—after just a few holes in chipboard, but Milwaukee includes a tiny diamond sharpening tool in its kits. Cutting is very fast, most holes take less than 15 seconds, and the cut piece