Looking for a new Makita mitre saw - Recommendations please

Handyman in Sussex · Post by **Handyman in Sussex** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:10 pm

Hello all!

I hope you are all well, it's been a long time since I have posted, but life has been very hectic this last few years.

As per the post title, I am in the market for a new chop saw, pref Makita as all my tools are blue, also if I go cordless then I have the batteries.

I already have a large and heavy 22 year old LS something or other, but a big heavy chopsaw for the larger work, but it has a bearing problem and is with the local repair shop to diagnose and cost up.

It is too heavy for me for average daily use or the odd litte job and more of a site saw really, so I am looking for a new smaller mitre saw for skirtings, architraves, decking jobs and the like. Something which can bevel 45 both ways preferably, and the bed swivel 45 both ways too. Up to enough to get a 6 x 2 flat on the bed and cut at 90 would be big enough I guess, and could be cordless or 240v. I am undecided which on this front. Just a bit wary of the power being enough in a cordless version.

Any tips or ideas from people who actually have and use one would be great please. Looking for it to be light enough for an aging old fart!

But I need to move soon as I have none at all right now. Budget up to £300 I suppose.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:16 pm

dont do mak but general comments
double bevel tends to mean a larger saw
150/6" tends to mean a slider

fin · Post by **fin** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:59 pm

im dewalt not makita but i had a look on its.co.uk
https://its.co.uk/search.php?search_que ... e3261c7db0

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:33 pm

just be aware its is PLUS VAT

as an aside that is where i got my old 18v dewalt plunge saw two tracks but no batteries
and to show you how long ago that was the machine £100 2 tracks and a joiner £100 and the vat was £35

Handyman in Sussex · Post by **Handyman in Sussex** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:19 am

Thanks both, I’ve just had a look, that first one looks a good deal @ £180, 300mm x 90 cut too! Bevel just one way, and 14kg so that’s a little one right? The lightest I can see there is 12kg but much less in terms of capacity, so for an extra 2kg I think the first one is the one to get

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 9:27 am

one is is 12 bags off sugar the other is 7 x2L bottles off pop

i use dewalt 18v similar weight with a battery
https://www.powertoolworld.co.uk/dewalt ... -body-only
compared to this one that lives in the workshop
https://www.dewalt.co.uk/products/dw712 ... -mitre-saw

both single bevel

Handyman in Sussex · Post by **Handyman in Sussex** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 7:41 pm

My old one should live in a workshop too big all, but it’s spent the last 25 years getting lugged around on sites and up scaffold etc, time for a little portable on now for day to day stuff

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 9:11 pm

i think j&k is the man to ask on this question unfortunately some person i dont know who on this forum upset him but he hasnt been back recently
i think diy not is your best bet on this subject as he is active there and there are far far to many yellow tools on this forum

fin · Post by **fin** » Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:14 pm

big al, how do you find the battery dewalt? my current mitre saw is the festool kapex. grreat bit of kit but ya need a big area to set it up and its a chew on sometimes on site setting it up. a smaller mitre saw would be a god send at times like

fin · Post by **fin** » Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:14 pm

did not know j&k had become cross with someone

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:47 pm

fin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:14 pm big al, how do you find the battery dewalt? my current mitre saw is the festool kapex. grreat bit of kit but ya need a big area to set it up and its a chew on sometimes on site setting it up. a smaller mitre saw would be a god send at times like

i love mine lol accurate ,cut what you like without struggling apart from the normal bowed twisted and wet timbers its not brushless but no problem
all you have to remember is because its light with heavy timbers unless its clipped on a leg stand the temptation is to front load and lay on the arm which can over Ballance it
also the knob on the front off the arm is lift to release from the indentations so you can be loading on a makeshift say 2 deep scaffold planks if you lay the work on the arm to slide it back and a bit sideways as you lay it on the front it can raise the knob that can move it from the toothed position bar without realizing

oz0707 · Post by **oz0707** » Sat Mar 19, 2022 6:31 am

As said above double bevel and light and transportable don't go together.
I'd probably go corded if working in domestic situations. There's always power available and you get more bang for your buck. As above will need a slider for that kind of capacity.