How practical is it to cut moulding using an electric mitre saw?
Posted: Tue 28 Jun, 2022 3:25 pm
How practical is it to cut moulding using an electric mitre saw? I've alawys understood that it's not very practical at all, but I already have a sliding mitre saw with a 10 inch diameter blade and I was just wondering how practical these are for the few that use them for cuttling mouldings. I already have a Nobex proman 110 hand operated mitre saw, with the measuring extension which Lion used to sell about 20 years ago, but having got an electric mitre saw, perhap I should consider using that with the measuring extension.
I alway intended to make a table saw mitring sled for my table saw and these are usually considered to be usable to pretty good accuracy. I had though about making a mitre sled for my band saw, but some times it cuts better than other times. Getting the bade to cut straight in obeche is not too bad, but in pine it is not always quite as good, so I shelved this idea. Don't get me wrong, the band saw is quite useful for a lot of things, but perhaps less so for mitring frame corners and I don't really know about have good the accuracy is likely to be with the electric mitre saw.
I still cut my mitres on the morso, but I am thinking about what equipment is likely to be best for using in such a small workshop area. I currently like to use my table saw and electric mitre saws out in the back yard, to keep the workshop dust free, but using these saws out side when it's raining it obviously not going to br practical. I do have an indoor side passage way, which if push comes to shuve I can use if it raining and i can usually brush the dust out the front door into the gutter in the road, but I don't really like doing this very much.
So I'm just wondering about whether to just stick to the Morso, or whether using something else might be worth the effert,
Thank,
Mark.
I alway intended to make a table saw mitring sled for my table saw and these are usually considered to be usable to pretty good accuracy. I had though about making a mitre sled for my band saw, but some times it cuts better than other times. Getting the bade to cut straight in obeche is not too bad, but in pine it is not always quite as good, so I shelved this idea. Don't get me wrong, the band saw is quite useful for a lot of things, but perhaps less so for mitring frame corners and I don't really know about have good the accuracy is likely to be with the electric mitre saw.
I still cut my mitres on the morso, but I am thinking about what equipment is likely to be best for using in such a small workshop area. I currently like to use my table saw and electric mitre saws out in the back yard, to keep the workshop dust free, but using these saws out side when it's raining it obviously not going to br practical. I do have an indoor side passage way, which if push comes to shuve I can use if it raining and i can usually brush the dust out the front door into the gutter in the road, but I don't really like doing this very much.
So I'm just wondering about whether to just stick to the Morso, or whether using something else might be worth the effert,
Thank,
Mark.