Originally posted by ctEaglesc
<br />My post wasn't meant to infer your jig is a bad idea comparing it to a tablesaw.
What I still don't understand is the purpose of the jig.
Eagle,no offense taken by your posting. Now as to how the jig helps me is quite simple in that the 'box' captures and prevents the small pieces that I cut from flying out. All my cuts are made to the right regardless of angle and what I've observed is that the cut pieces are flung into the lexan box. The box captures the cut part and prevents me from searching for lost pieces as they're flung from the saw's blade. Think of a baseball (small wood piece) being thrown to the catcher (clear box).
No, it won't save fingers unless you exercise caution as is the case with any power tool. But because of the way "I" cut (left hand away from blade & right hand on top of saw's trigger), my fingers are away from the cutting blade. And so far they've remained just where I need them to be (on my hand).
The small pieces/chunks were inserted with my pic as to show how fine some of the cuts can be to be captured in the lexan box. Hopefully I've been clerarer as to what I intend to have the jig do. It really works for me and thought perhaps it would assist others that may use their mitre saw to make small cuts.
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