Saw or Guillotine?

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Saw or Guillotine?

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I need a new mitre saw, but wondering if I can buy a used guillotine for a similar price? Needs to be able to deal with 4" (100mm) width mouldings.
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Re: Saw or Guillotine?

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I think the Moro max size is 100. I use a saw and I couldn’t see me going back to a Morso, perhaps when I retire…
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Re: Saw or Guillotine?

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A saw makes a much better job of cutting difficult mouldings, don't cut so well on a morso. In particular, you don't have problems with mouldng s getting slightly crushed edge when the wood is bit soft. Some really soft obeche just does not like cutting on a Morso at all, but a saw will still give you a clean cut on such mouldings.

In addition to this cutting a batch of hard oak on a morso will often dull a set of blades in a very quick time, remdering them not much good for afterwards cutting a soft batch of obeche. Saw blades don't have this same problem as a general rule. Some woods cut on the morso can leave ragged edges in side the rebate and it can be necessary to clean these up with a sharp blade n order to get a nice clean joint, but rebate cut on a high speed saw with a fine tooth blade don't do this!

I have a morso, not a saw, but this does not mean I would not like a saw, if I had somewhere to put one! I say go for the saw.
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