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2. Mitre box - Wikipedia

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   Mitre box. An adjustable mitre box used for cutting angles from 45° to 90°. A mitre box or miter box (American English) is a wood working appliance used to guide a hand saw for making precise cuts, usually 45° mitre cuts. [1][2] Traditional mitre boxes are simple in construction and made of wood, while adjustable mitre boxes are made of ...

3. Miter saw - Wikipedia

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   A motorized miter saw. A miter saw or mitre saw is a saw used to make accurate crosscuts and miters in a workpiece by positioning a mounted blade onto a board. A miter saw in its earliest form was composed of a back saw in a miter box, but in modern implementation consists of a powered circular saw that can be positioned at a variety of angles and lowered onto a board positioned against a ...

4. Fence (woodworking) - Wikipedia

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   Failure to use a suitable fence or jig can result in injuries, such as those caused by kick-back. [3] [4]: 121–125 The most common fence on a table saw is a rip fence, and is provided as standard with any new table saw. The rip fence is parallel to the saw blade and can be adjusted to different distances from the blade to set the size of the ...

5. Miter gauge - Wikipedia

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   A miter gauge is a device used for holding workpieces at a set angle while being cut on table saws, band saws or sanded on stationary disk sanders. The miter gauge slides in a slot on the worktable (known as a miter slot) on the machine being used. Typically, the miter gauge and the workpiece are held together by hand and moved across the ...

6. Table saw - Wikipedia

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   A table saw (also known as a sawbench or bench saw in England) is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (directly, by belt, by cable, or by gears). The drive mechanism is mounted below a table that provides support for the material, usually wood, being cut, with the ...

7. Stop block - Wikipedia

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   A stop block is a simple reusable jig used in metalworking and woodworking to locate a common edge of a workpiece so that multiple workpieces can get the same operation performed quickly. Common applications are table saws and manual milling machines , but they are also used on miter saws , band saws , radial arm saws , and abrasive saws .