the.com/miter saw
A spinning guillotine that turns angle math into furniture with one confident pull.
means A power tool with a circular blade mounted on a swing arm that makes precise straight or angled crosscuts in wood and other materials.
from Named for the miter joint, where two pieces meet at an angle (classically 45 degrees to form a 90-degree corner). 'Miter' itself comes, via French 'mitre,' from Latin 'mitra' and Greek 'mitra,' meaning a headband or turban — the same word behind a bishop's pointed miter hat. The carpentry sense borrowed the idea of an angled, tapering meeting of edges, much like the two slanted halves of that ceremonial cap. 'Saw' is plain old Germanic, kin to words meaning 'to cut,' related to the same root that gives us 'sickle' and 'section.'
- compound cuts
- Tilts and pivots for two angles at once
- blade speed
- Teeth move over 100 mph at the rim
- sliding range
- Rails let it crosscut surprisingly wide boards
- named for
- The miter joint, where two angles meet
- kickback risk
- Trapped offcuts can launch back at you
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