"jerrybuilt " ] wrote in message ...
Michael McNeil wrote:
Always use a new saw as a used one tends to cut off-line.
Unless it's a Jack saw. I never got one of them that cut
straight. I think it was the supplier treading on them so
he could sell more. Get a Sandvik (or Bacho) one.

I'm talking about Sandvik. See, /\ Sandvik.

The trick with not hitting a nail or something that will ruin your saw
is to use timber that is free of said faults.

ALL the trade use them for preference. If you are going into ****ty
timber you use an old saw. You keep three saws near bye. A tatty one
for that sort of thing, one that is still good but failing and a new
one for best (I.e mitring new skirting.)

Sharpening a saw is all very well if you know how to do it. I could
get a fairly good edge on mine in the OLD DAYS in a few minutes. I
doubt I could now -if I had such a saw. The files cost as much as a
Sandvik so you gain nothing as you have to sharpen the saw so often
that it wears the file out in about the same time you'd replace a S
you know what.

Obviously sharpening a saw on a building site has gone a long time
ago. For the very obvious reasons stated.

Don't let idiots near your saw as they tread all over them -that is
the greatest cause of ruining a Sandvik. They last weeks. I have still
got my first one for this site I'm on (in my 9th week there) and still
using it for best work. They tend to last as long as the wrapper they
come in if you look after both. When the wrapper becomes tatty, that's
when to relegate it to next best.

I use my old Jack for cutting floor boards. A previous employer bought
it me and it cuts straight, still -but I am not living in Ruthin now
where there was very little choice and they were stored badly.

The mitre saw shown above is a good little toy. It does a very nice
cut for a while but you can't use it as a compound can you. You can
with the method in my first post. You can cut any angle up to 180
degrees.

AND:

You can fix it to awkward things such as bargeboards if you need to do
some real fancy repairs. I've never seen it done of course, I just
noticed the thread about that on my way in here.

You don't have to take my advice. It's just that I saw so much guff
about buying a chop saw. If you must buy a mitre, saw get a chop saw
and a g-clamp. But you don't really need one for occasional work.