Plenty has been donataed, but some bits and bobs are on loan I think.
Thx Sarah for sharing the link lot’s of great resources in there. I spotted that mitre saw station that compromise between small amount of space available and still not restricting cutting long pieces
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Stefano was hoping to build a very clever bench that pulled forward to accommodate up to 8 m lengths and the rest of the bench can also be used for other tools .
I think it is a Italian disine thing
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purely out of curiosity, I’ve never understood why these mitre stations place the saw at the centre - why not at one end, or with one side longer than the other? There are designs all over the place (Norm Abrams has a good one) but they all share that feature.
It’s easier to turn the job over and cut from the other side, than it is to re-set the angle of the saw every time.
Obviously minimising the number of times you have to re-set the saw angle is essential, but I can’t see a situation where having the saw at one end would increase the number of changes needed. For example, if you wanted to make two cuts at one end of the piece (eg two mitre cuts to leave it with a pointy end), couldn’t you just flip the timber over?
But I do see that I’m probably wrong, I just don’t yet see why. I thought the most likely answer was because if the saw was at the centre, you could cut lengths of timber in their middle, and both halves would be equally supported.
Hmm. I’m sure you’re right, but I was cutting things on our saw the other night and found myself using both sides.
Here’s a design for a one-ended bench btw: http://www.familyhandyman.com/tools/miter-saws/how-to-build-a-miter-saw-table/view-all
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Typically the saw isn’t symmetrical - it will do bigger angles on one side than the other. So for some jobs you need to work from both directions.
Thank you for trying to explain it, and maybe I shouldn’t have opened this up. I do know they have a bigger range of angles on one side… but that doesn’t help me understand why that would mean you’d need to approach the saw from both sides - surely you’d always want to favour the side that gave you a greater range of angles?
This would be so much easier to just show you!
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To me it’s a ‘nice to have’ , rather then a ‘must have’. Saves a bit time and hassle.