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Chose between a $40 pawn shop miter saw and a $200 new one for a 6 foot crown molding job, and the cheap one won
Everyone in the woodworking forums swears you need a precision saw for crown molding, so I almost caved and bought the new one, but I went with the beat up pawn shop saw from a place off Highway 9 in Tacoma instead. That thing cut through 14 pieces of 4 inch crown with maybe a 1/32 gap at the joints, and my neighbor who does trim work for a living couldn't tell which corners were mine. So here's what I want to know: when did a cheap tool actually beat the fancy one for you, or am I just lucky with this particular saw?
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mary77615d ago
That bit about your neighbor who does trim for a living not being able to tell which corners were yours really says it all. I had a similar thing happen with a chainsaw I got at a yard sale for 25 bucks, old Homelite that looked like it fell off a truck in 1987. Everyone told me I needed a Stihl or I'd bind it up and hurt myself, but that ugly thing ripped through a whole maple that came down in a storm and never even bogged. Meanwhile my brother in law spent almost 400 on a new one with all the fancy safety features and it kept stalling on him the same weekend. Sometimes the old stuff was just built heavier and the exact specs matter less than people online want you to believe.
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