The 8 Best Lawn Edger Blades of 2026

The wear indicator is the detail that settles this one. This is the factory Edge Hog blade for Black+Decker's LE750, LE710, LE760, and EH1000 edgers, and it is marked so you can see how much steel is left before the cut falls apart. None of the other blades here are marked that way; they ask you to judge by eye against a memory of how the edge used to look. This one tells you.

It is a 7-1/2-inch blade in hardened steel with six serrated teeth, and the teeth are why it opens a clean trench instead of a frayed one: they slice the runners the mower leaves hanging over the sidewalk and cut down into the soil in the same pass. The factory edge is sharp out of the box, which sounds like the bare minimum until you open a budget blade that is not.

Fitment is settled by the part number, so there is nothing to measure and nothing to cross-reference against a manual. That is worth something on its own. Order two - the blade is sold singly, and a spare in the shed means a dull edge does not end an afternoon of yard work.

The measurement that decides this purchase is not the blade length - it is the arbor. These blades run just over half an inch at the center hole, 0.512 inch, which is what WORX uses on the WG895 and WG896. A standard 1-inch edger blade will not fit those machines, and a 5/8-inch walk-behind blade will not either, so this is one of the few places where a near-miss in hole size is the entire story.

What arrives is two blades, 2 inches wide and 0.100 inch thick, replacing the WA0034, 50018386, and 71-86880 part numbers. The steel is hardened, plain, and uncoated, and the profile is a straightforward flat edger design rather than a serrated or star blade. Fit and width are right, and in this category that is most of the purchase.

For a WG895 or WG896, this is the sensible box. Two blades, the correct arbor, and a spare that lives on a shelf until the day the first one rounds over - and no money spent on steel thickness this machine will never wear through.

Three cutting sides is the entire argument. When one edge of a star blade rounds over against the sidewalk, you pull it, flip it, and keep edging on a fresh face, and a 3-side blade gives you a third turn out of the same piece of steel before you are shopping again. That math beats the two edges a flat blade offers, and it is the reason this one made the list.

The fitment is the 5/8-inch walk-behind family: Troy-Bilt's TB554 and TEB515, Craftsman's 247762460 and 247772460, and anything calling for the 781-0748, 490-105-M017, or 40-009 part. Each blade is quenched and heat-treated under a black powder coat, and the serrated edges arrive sharp. Nine inches across, it also presents far more cutting edge to the turf than a 2-inch flat blade does, which is why these machines cut such a defined line.

Two blades with three edges apiece, plus a flip in between, adds up to a long run of edging before the next order, and the powder coat keeps the spare from rusting on a shelf over winter. For a walk-behind with a long run of curb to maintain, it is the best arrangement of steel here.

This is the blade for the older walk-behind machines - the McLane 2059 and its 2059-9 number, plus the Power Trim, Tru-Cut, and King O Lawn edgers still earning their keep in a lot of garages. The fitment is a 1/2-inch center hole and a 9-by-9-inch star, and it also covers the M47147, 375-411, and 050568 parts.

Each blade is heat-treated to resist bending, sharpened on all three sides, and made to be turned over so both faces get used. That is a design detail we look for in a star blade: three edges becomes six over the life of the blade, and it costs you nothing but the two minutes it takes to pull the nut and drop it back on.

It is a narrow fitment, but narrow is the point. The machines that take a 1/2-inch arbor do not take a 1-inch blade, and a star blade that matches the spindle exactly beats a cheaper one you have to modify or return.

This is the lowest outlay in the guide, and that makes it the diagnostic buy: two blades for less than nearly everything else here, which is what you want when the real question is whether your edger is worn out or just blunt. Put one of these on and the answer usually shows up in the first ten feet of trench.

The fitment list is the broad 1-inch-arbor one - Ryobi's 613223 and 791-613223B, Echo's 720237001 and the PE series, Stihl's 4133 713 4102 and the FC trimmers, Maruyama's 216062, Green Machine's 237001. One honest note from the listing: these arrive with unsharpened edges. That is normal for a flat edger blade, but if you are coming off a serrated blade the first cut will feel different, and you will be leaning on machine speed rather than teeth.

At 0.1 inch these are the thinnest blades in this guide alongside the WORX pair, and thin steel wears faster. That is the trade, and a reasonable one at the smallest outlay here - you are buying an answer as much as you are buying a blade.

Same blade as our top pick on paper - 8 by 2 inches, 1-inch center hole - with one number different: 0.11 inch of high-carbon steel instead of 0.12. A hundredth of an inch is nothing in your hand. On a blade that spends its life being dragged through grit against a concrete lip, it is the figure that decides how often you are back out there with a wrench.

Everything else is sound. The list of replacement numbers is long - 613223, 613223R, 720-237-001, 4133-713-4101, 216062, 237001 - and it reaches Echo's PE series, Stihl's FC trimmers, Ryobi's 720 and 725, Maruyama, and Green Machine, the same broad family the top pick serves. It ships with split pins in a couple of sizes, so you are not hunting hardware the day the old one gives up.

Five blades is the hedge. You are trading steel per blade for more blades, which is the right trade if you edge a short run once or twice a month and the difference between 0.11 and 0.12 never gets a chance to show itself. Buy five thin blades, work through them, and do not think about it again until the box is empty.

Where it falls behind is a long weekly run against concrete - exactly where thickness earns its keep, and exactly where the twelve-pack is the better box. Short driveway, occasional touch-ups: this is plenty of blade.

Fifty blades is not a homeowner quantity, and Terre does not pretend otherwise. The case is built for crews, property managers, and anyone with enough concrete edge to justify buying steel by the pound - it weighs in at 24 pounds before you have cut a single trench.

The listing also does something rare: it admits the blade measures approximately 7-3/4 inches end to end depending on how you measure, even though it is sold as an 8-inch blade. That is honest and it is useful, because blade length in this category gets taped a couple of different ways and a quarter inch is the kind of thing that starts a return.

The rest of the spec is solid - 2 inches wide, 0.120 inch thick, made in the U.S., and crossing the common numbers: 720-237-001, 69601552631, 613223, 4133-713-4102, 6367-15110, 216062, 840084. It fits select Echo, Ryobi, Stihl, RedMax, Shindaiwa, Maruyama, McCulloch, Husqvarna, and Green Machine edgers.

Buy this after you have confirmed the fit on a smaller pack, not before, because fifty wrong blades is an expensive way to learn your arbor size. Once the fitment is settled and edging is a weekly multi-property job, nothing else here touches the per-blade math.