Saws

On this page of the site you will find several different types of saws, excluding bandsaws. If you are looking for bandsaws, please visit the bandsaws page.

A mitre saw is a saw used for making an accurate crosscut or mitre through a workpiece. Originally manually driven (the early mitre saws looked like a regular hand saw attached to a stand with a pivot) the majority of mitre saws today are motorised. This motorised (power) mitre saw, also known as a chop saw or drop saw, is a variation of the manual mitre saw and is classed as a power tool. It performs the same operation as the manual saw but the blade has been replaced by a powered circular saw. With common blade diameters ranging from 8” to 12”, the power mitre saw is relatively small and portable.

The workpiece is held in place by a fence and the spinning blade is lowered in a short controlled motion to make the cut. The blade and blade arm are fixed on a pivot so that angled cuts can be performed, using the mitre index this can usually be set to the nearest degree. Many mitre saws also have stopping points so that the blade can be set to common angles (e.g. 15˚, 30˚, 45˚, 75˚) quickly.

A circular saw is a machine that uses a circular blade or disc with teeth to cut through wood and other materials. Circular saws can be handheld or table mounted, mitre saws and table saws are examples of table-mounted circular saws. Although primarily designed for and used for cutting wood (wood cutting circular blades are almost always tipped with tungsten carbide) other blades can be fitted for cutting other materials such as plastic, masonry or metal.

Table saws have the blade or disc fixed to the table, and the workpiece is moved across the table and through the saw to make the cut; mitre saws have the circular blade attached to an arm that is lowered through the workpiece to make the cut; and handheld circular saws are just that, portable power tools that can be used for cutting through various materials, they are convenient to carry but the downside is that with no table or mounted support, achieving an accurate and clean straight cut is unlikely.

Although almost exclusively powered by electricity, early circular saws such as ones found in a saw mill, originally harnessed water power to turn a huge wheel to power the saw.

Mitre Saws

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Table Saws

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