Once plugged in, you simply push the on-off button and the screen lights up with questions, like “Which side of the saw is your fence on?” You can use the SawGear on either side. Rotate the levers parallel with the fence to engage the locks in the channel, then rotate the levers perpendicular to the fence and lock down the cams (below). The Controller is locked to the fence with two pivoting cam locks. Two knobs lock it down.Ī long spindle on the bottom of the Controller-the brains of the tool-mounts to a matching gear in the top of the fence. All I did was screw the two mounting brackets down to my wooden extension wing. In fact, it took a lot longer to unpack the new tool than to set it up. I’ll let you know what I think.” Brandon showed me how it cut casing, but I wanted to get it in my shop, make a cut list for baseboard and crown, and really see if it worked. Ever the skeptic, my last words were: “Send me one and let me work with it. I met some of the engineers and received one-on-one training. I spent the better part of a day with Brandon, getting a private tutorial on how the tool was developed. You know how younger guys are more and more into computers? And the guys we’re getting on the jobs know less and less about carpentry? This thing’s the answer.” I kept saying: “Who needs a computer for measuring at a miter saw? All you need is a tape and a #2 1/2 pencil.”īut Mike was serious and convincing: “You have got to see this. Mike Sloggatt had dragged me over to the saw he was using, with my heels smoking.

I’d heard about the SawGear, and played with it a little at the JLC Live show in Providence last March.

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