First Miter Saw I Used Was Cordless - What About You?

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Mike.
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One of the good things about cutting liters by hand is there is really no dust, just a little sawdust that doesn't fly around the room. Cleanup is nothing.

and it's quiet. Which is often important where/when I'm working.

Good point. Except for some cussing and swearing on occasion, the only load noises was the framing hammer and circ saw when I started out.

still use it.
Nice and quiet


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I had one, from sears, quite a piece of equipment. Later, got a Hitachi chop saw. What a beast.

Delta 9"..... thought it was the best thing in the world!

I think you're right you should put it in the office. If you haven't yet. Lol

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What I remember most was each nail driven into the miter corner - first you had to turn it tip up and blunt the point with a single hammer blow so it wouldn't split the wood.

Come to think of it, mine was too. Used it for balsa wood control line model airplanes. I can still smell the nitromethane and castor oil.

Learning to make cuts to 1/64th accuracy as a kid probably both helped and hindered my building career.

I was always envious of these. By the time I was able to get one, this nice, a power one was within reach.

I still use one occasionally. Just yesterday, I had to cut 3 pieces of trim. When I got out the old Makita miter saw, my son laughed a little. He said he was sure I would have cut them by hand. Usually this is when it comes out.

I would like to have a Lion miter though.

Remember that. I was only a couple years ago, I realized I didn't even have hand drive nails in the truck.

That happens to me too. I end up digging through the junk in the bottom of the tool box trying to find a few small finishing nails.

I’ve cut them off the strip several times. But having hand drives is long gone. I’ve been thinking about it. I don’t really know when I stopped carrying them


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Love the photos of the old gear!

When I am working on a project, I know ahead of time if I'll need hand drives, and I'll just buy a box. I don't even look for partial boxes, I won't find them, and if I do they'll be rusty if they aren't galvanized.

Buy a box, and you'll need half of it, or a box and a half. Never fails.

I've become pretty adept at stripping out gun nails.

My first miter saw was a Mag 77 Worm Drive.
Seriously.
I worked for a framing contractor that also had the contract for warranty repair work for a couple of big tract builders.

One of the most common repairs was to pull and reinstall the entry doors, and install new casing.

I was required to supply my own hand tools. They provided me with a Worm drive. Nothing else. Cut the casing with a worm drive and nail it up by hand.

IMO, hand driving gun nails is inferior to the Maze hand drives. Framing and siding, I'll strip gun nails, but there are a bunch of oddballs I use fairly routinely. Larger sizes of finish nails would be one.

Agreed; there's a very real difference between the two types. But real world exigencies sometimes demand that you make do with what you have just to git 'er done.