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2. Mitre box - Wikipedia

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   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 metal and can be adjusted for cutting any angle from 45° to 90°.

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. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

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   mitre. Also spelled miter. Any joint made by fastening together pieces with the ends cut at an angle. mitre box. Also spelled miter box. A box used for making mitre joints by having slots to guide a saw at the desired angle for the joint. mitre saw. Also spelled miter saw.

5. Black & Decker Workmate - Wikipedia

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   The jaws are wide enough to hold most bench top tools, such as a drill press, planer, miter saw, etc. [1] When invented, the designer Ron Hickman had difficulty convincing anyone to market the Workmate, and sold them himself at trade shows. [ 2 ]

6. Backsaw - Wikipedia

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   Mitre saw – often referred to as a large backsaw (20–30 inches or 60–90 cm) used either in a wooden or metal mitre box or in a metal frame which allowed cutting mitres of any specified angle. Note that not all mitre saws are backsaws, and the electric mitre saw (or chop saw) has largely taken its place today. Tenon saw – a midsized backsaw.

7. Saw - Wikipedia

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   The basic version has a circular blade fixed at a 90° angle to the vertical. A "compound miter saw" has a blade that can be adjusted to other angles. A "sliding compound miter saw" has a blade that can be pulled through the work, in an action similar to that of a radial-arm saw, which provides more capacity for cutting wider workpieces.