My miter saw stands were always off by a hair until I checked the ground with a level

I was setting up for a crown molding job in a client's basement in Denver last month and kept getting gaps. Turns out my saw stand was on a sloped floor and I never noticed because I never leveled the stand itself first. Anybody else skip that step and pay for it later?

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felixlee19d ago

yeah i feel you man. i had the same thing happen with a deck build last spring, everything looked square on the saw but the cuts were all off by like a 16th. spent way too long messing with blade alignment before i realized the whole stand was sitting on this old cracked driveway slab that had settled uneven. now i always throw a 4ft level on the stand rails before i even unbox the saw, saved me so much headache.

jesse99419d ago

Buddy of mine chased a square cut issue for two hours before finding a pebble under his saw stand leg.

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