Originally Posted by
John Mark Lane
I've never used a compound sliding miter saw (or whatever they are called). I have a couple of Delta miter saws, and I've owned and used a couple of older radial arm saws. In my old shop, the RAS was almost as important as the table saw. It got used constantly.
In looking at these new compound sliding saws (sorry, I know they're not very new, but I'm old), it looks to me like you can't adjust the height of the blade over the cutting table. Is that right? So you can never do dados or cuts for a lap joint or anything like that, right? That would seriously limit the usefulness of the saw, imo.
Am I missing something?