HA!... so old hat Ben! Actually I have bought two! I like this saw A LOT! However you miss four killer apps which (perhaps are on other saws - I am sure that they do feature elsewhere) really do make this saw stand out... 1. Travel of the blade! I.e. the distance it can slide from front to back. There is a manual stop which can be engaged above/on the two slide-bars (behind the motor) . What does this mean? it means that you hardly need the 'spacer' behind the work piece (you showed) when you are trenching. Releasing this 'stop' means that the saw actually travels further than any other mitre saw I have ever used - behind the saw's fences. It is sooooooo useful! Well done Lumberjack! 2. You demoed the mitre release mechanism (4:33) when moving the mitre to different angles. What you didn't show was that there is actually TWO methods to do this... brilliant! One is to only use the lower (black/grey) lever underneath the locking knob. This will release the mitre feature but will allow it all to lock into the various hard stops. BUT ... but ... but... if you depress the upper (red) lever, which you seemed to demo, it will additionally then leave it in an un-engaged position, i.e., you will find that the movement does not auto-lock into pre-set positions! Well done Lumberjack! 3. The smoothness of the saw. You do not mention the decibel factor! This saw is actually flipping QUIET! I need to shout that to make up as to how quiet this mitre saw actually is. Coupled with the soft start and stop, it only runs at about 80Db - well according to my app on my phone - at about 1m. My old mitres all ran way higher than that. LJ's previous 10" mitre saw actually used to frightened the living bajeebers out of me when I first used it. I got used of it, but boy was it ring-clenching! So well done Lumberjack again. 4. The value for money... Well done Lumberjack! What can be improved? Simply incorporate all the above into LJ's other (non-pro) 12" saw, which I also have btw - but specifically not including the non-pro's specific nigh-on unusable mitre hard-stop system (you know what I mean if you have one of these saws!). This would be an absolute world beater. Small footprint (way smaller than their old 10" in fact!), soft-start/finish, indented mitre stops, the cracking bevel-cut system this ('pro) saw has, keep this saw's depth of cut facilities - including distance of blade-travel and the depth-stop system (second to none on this saw btw)... AND that brilliant shadow-line! I know the latter is on other saws but have you seen the added cost to this facility!? It is just about the same cost of this saw alone! What to sort out? 1. The somewhat useless sexually oriented dust collection port!!! (I have simply ditched this and dealt with the whole dust-collection thingy quite differently) 2. Change the hold-down clamp system - this one really is useless. A clam needs to be fast and pleasurable to use to be of any use from a safety point of view. 3. Ditch the dust-collection bag - this is a complete waste of money and can be invested better into a superior collection port instead. 4. Ditch those useless and totally needless stock-support thingamabobs - they really are not needed at all. Invest the money into the dust-collection aspect. 5. Make those blade-guard wheels even bigger... though not by much! Well if you have read this far... well done indeed! I cannot recommend this mitre saw enough at this price point... buy it if you have the room to spare behind it - that said, this is not any more than the equivalently sized saw from other makes with the same sliding system.

@lumberjacktoolsuk

14 күн бұрын

Thank you for your supportive comments! :D nice to see another fellow Lumberjack fan! We will take your comments on board and see what we can do :)

@selianboy8508

13 күн бұрын

@@lumberjacktoolsuk yup... you have an absolute world beater if you merge your two 12"saws, keeping the smaller footprint of the one and the hard stops and other features of the the Pro version... great saws in their own right, but together they will do you well...

You can tell this is made by the same factory as the Delta and Ridgid saws that happen to be identical, however strangely it’s missing some of their features while adding one or two (the wheel on the blade guard). Many of the parts are the same as the Cruzer (the base, for instance).

I watched the video when Ben first posted it. I have a few LJ tools and find them excellent quality and superb value. The addition of the little wheels on the guard is awesome. I have an older version of the 12" saw and it's a real bug bare when it catches. I'm interested to hear your comments on Ben's points regarding the dust collection. Why does your dust collector not fit and why does the shroud get sucked in? Cheers Steve

@lumberjacktoolsuk

15 күн бұрын

Hi Steve, Nice to hear you have a few tools of ours :D It is very difficult with extraction adaptors as some machine factories we use do not have the size we need to fit with our extraction, we are lucky we only have 3 machines like this out of our whole range of tools, you will find this issue with not just ourselves but a lot of brands out there. Regards to the shroud - we changed this from the type you have on the SCMS305DB as we had issues with this one getting damaged regularly, so we changed to the rubber you can see on the new PRO version and this has now created a different issue, so with this we are still in the learning process. We have already brought this to our factory's attention and looking at getting an adaptor to fit to the side of the body that changes where the dust is pulled from and also a better stronger shroud, we have noticed a lot of the larger brands out there have done the same :)