Not safely with a standard wood blade — you need a blade rated for non-ferrous metal, a negative rake, and a slower feed, because a positive-rake wood blade grabs aluminum and can climb out of the cut.
Aluminum is soft, which misleads people into thinking any blade will do. The problem is not hardness, it is grabbing.
Rake angle. A positive-rake blade digs into aluminum rather than shaving it. The tooth loads, the material welds to the carbide, and the blade snatches — on a mitre saw that means the head diving, on a table saw it means the offcut launching.
The right blade is a non-ferrous blade: high tooth count, triple-chip grind, negative rake. They are widely sold and clearly labeled.
Technique. Slow, steady feed. Clamp the work — never hand-held. Full-face protection, because aluminum swarf comes off hot and fast.
Extraction. Do not run a chip collector full of sawdust while cutting metal. Hot swarf into a bin of fine dust is a genuinely bad combination.
Machines like the Evolution range reviewed on this site ship with multi-material blades designed for exactly this, which is a cleaner answer than adapting a wood saw.
Last reviewed 2026-08-12