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• Bow saws were also used in good-quality miter boxes. This was my saw for many years.

• There are miter boxes for bread.

• This miniature chop saw almost looks like a toy, but it’s actually quite useful. It’s fitted with a simple steel blade suitable for cutting plastic, wood, or soft metal. I use it for cutting acrylic rods and hollow polystyrene square tube for the mechanical models I sell.

• I’ve probably spent more time using this sliding compound miter saw than any other power tool I have.

• Chop saws look similar to miter saws, but they do only one thing: tilt straight down. They are most commonly fitted with an abrasive cutting wheel (like a very thin grinding wheel) and are used to cut rebar (steel bar used to reinforce concrete) and other sorts of steel rod and bars. (Soft metals like aluminum and brass are better cut with a carbide blade in a miter saw.)

• Plastic Miter Box

• Simple, inexpensive miter boxes were a basic part of any home wood working shop. The wooden surface gets cut up, but that’s generally harmless, and if it gets too bad it can be replaced.

• A smaller, lighter, cheaper miter saw with no slide rails.

• Manual miter boxes used to be quite serious tools, well made and well used.

• Miter Box

• I’m not exactly sure whether this meat slicer is more like a miter saw, a table saw, or perhaps a radial arm saw, but it’s definitely some kind of circular saw.

• Miter Saw

• You can still buy cheap plastic miter boxes. Instead of a movable guide, a fixed set of slots let you make 22.5, 45 or 90 degree cuts.

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