Buying a mitre saw

with tools you have to pay for quality,
we have all tried buying cheap but it just means buying twice,
its hard when you first start out,
ive never come across the make,
sorry would love to say yeah there great,
but experience tells me it will let you down

 

Blackspur are very cheap and nasty, if you buy a cheap saw it probably wont be accurate which makes it pointless.
I would look on fleabay for a De Walt, Makita or Bosch.

 

Blackspur is one of the many companies that do not actually make anything, like many they just but in cheap Chinese stock and rebrand it with there own logo such as silverline, rolson and the likes.
I'd advise you save up a bit more and buy a decent one, at the minimum start out with the evolution range and work up when that gives in. Buy a sliding mitre saw though as I guarantee if you don't you will be wanting one the more you use a non sliding one.

 

The evolution mitre saws get fantastic reviews, I have a evolution circular saw and am so impressed with it that I'm going to buy the rage 210 mitre saw, it's only £99 .....a bargain!!

 

I have one of the rage evolution mitre saws... Can't tell you off the top of my head which one...it's nice to use but the pre-made stops for 90degrees is off so I've used a square and etched actual 90...not sure if this is just common for this type of mitre saw or if I mine was just made wrong lol....either way not really a problem

 

It's very common on the cheaper saws

 

Thought so mate...

 

As others have said, Evolution saws are pretty good for the money. Get a good square, make some test cuts and adjust the fence till its true.

I find the standard multi purpose blade to be a bit rough for second fix, kitchen cornice etc, so to make it more versatile, you can fit a finer blade with a 30mm centre and use a reducer to go from 30 to 25.4mm(1") which is the size of the arbour on these saws(on my version anyway ) You can get them from axminster etc for a couple of quid.

I bought a 80T blade from TS, reducer from axminster and after 10 mins setting the saw up was making good clean cuts on laminate, cornice etc.

As I don't need to use a mitre saw everyday so this more than meets my needs for the time being/cost

 

With regards to saw blades look at Freud, cuts nice and clean, need to look around as prices can vary.

http://www.dm-tools.co.uk/browse.php/level/4/section/6233

 

Buy a Dewalt DW777. I started 20 years ago with a second hand 110v Elu PS173, which is essentially the same saw as the Dewalt DW777 (I know that Dewalt have changed a lot of things but owning both of the saws I can definitely say they are very closely related. I still have the ELU but its very tired now!

I have been through all kinds of saws since but have just gone out and bought a new DW777 as for value £200-300 odd, accuracy and portability it is unbeatable. Its not got the capacity of bigger saws but it will cut up to about 9x3 which covers 99% of work.

 

They may all be made in China in the same 3 - 4 different factories anyways. Just being badged different for different importers

 

Buy the Jet JSMS-10L 250mm Slide Mitre Saw. Only £219 inc vat. Probably china but their stuff is good quality.

 

Bosch GCM8SJL superb saw

 

It only bevels one way. I'll stick with my Makita.

 

Light and portable are the key factors for a saw for me.

Double bevels, huge capacities etc are all well and good but for a saw to be transported about it adds a lot of bulk and weight.

For the workshop if I needed a mitre saw it could be as big as I needed, but for working out and about no thanks.

 

I'm not bother with saw being single bevel, that I can adapt to, I like for it's 70x312mm @ 90°degrees , 70 x 214 mm 45°mitre & 48 x 312 mm 45°bevel, plus it's only 17Kg in weight.

 

I have a dewalt saw and it has been excellent but so expensive even second hand. I was switching channels and on one of the shopping channels they had SIP chop saw which does compound mitres for around £200. looked quite good.