time for a power-tool review hi
everybody its mark from the family
woodworker channel hey this week we're
going to do a little bit of a tool
review on a new miter saw this is a shop
master series from delta its model 20
6-2 62
not that that means anything to you but
it's a lower-cost
entry-level chop saw or a Microsoft and
we're gonna get into a little bit of
review this week so stick with us so
here's the ultra glamorous 360 degree
shot it's a pretty compact little miter
saw and it's got some great features for
the price point so here's the locking
knob lock locking the arm in place so
you can pick it up and move it around to
the job site or from room to room it
also has a laser line which will display
on the cutting surface and if you're
doing a lot of rough construction or
framing it's pretty easy to get that
stuff lined up the blade will cut just
to the right of the laser line so you
put it right on the pencil mark there's
also a safety switch here which I like
because I keep my saw bolted down and
plugged in on my bench top so if you've
got small kids or grandkids running
around it's tough to engage the saw
blade there's also a little spot in the
back to hold the allen wrench for
tightening and loosening some of the
soft features and you'll never lose that
guy now back twenty years ago when I
bought my original Delta it was an
expensive option they have this compound
cutting system built in but it comes
standard with the saw so if you're
putting up molding in the home this
helps a lot there's also a hold down
clamp for securing that piece of lumber
so you can keep your hands away from the
cutting deck and I like this feature as
well
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let's talk a little bit about the 200
pound gorilla in the room which isn't
really a big gorilla but you may have
noticed my last few videos the saw had
changed so I have even done a workshop
upgrade video and featured a custom
tabletop that I built from my old Delta
miter saw and with the custom dust hood
the dust hood worked really great on the
old saw it turned out to be a great
combination and the SOB died right in
the middle of that video production when
I was upgrading this workbench so I
wound up looking for something that was
roughly the same size the same dimension
I never had a lot of money to spend that
power tool so I was looking for
something low cost that provided a good
value and I wound up going with another
Delta so case you notice over the past
few videos this the saw had actually
changed you were right it did actually
change so in terms of the power of the
saw in the motor this is a 15 amp motor
and I believe on my old Delta saw it was
just a 13 or a 13 and a half amp and I
can definitely tell the difference as I
cut through lumber that how much more
juice this has and you could tell when
you started up that first engagement of
the motor kind of pulls the handle and
it lets you know that there's some good
power behind it so you want to be
careful but it does cut very well I'm
going to demo some really dense
hardwoods and show you how easily they
cut through I also want to point out and
during the demo I'm going to show you
another one of the things that I'm not
crazy about compared to my old Delta saw
where the dust collection hood that I
had created for the back the back area
wound up collecting the dust really well
and even though I'm going to have a
vacuum tube hooked up to the exhaust
port on the back of the motor back here
the dust isn't the sawdust isn't
necessarily going to get collected here
it's going to go everywhere so I'll show
you that as we cut through some lumber
and I'm going to have to come up with
some other
solution on the benchtop to help me
collect that dust and so we're going to
start out with just some two by six pine
dimensional two by six pine and of
course this is just one and a half
inches thick but it's pretty easy to cut
through this stuff but let's take a look
at Hawaiian koa now quite a bit more
dense a little bit heavier hardwood but
no problem and the really tough stuff
African Paducah this is way up there on
the Janka hardness index a tough
hardwood so that was a really nice clean
cut on this Paducah this red Duke this
is a pretty rare hardwood and this stuff
is really dense and really hard and the
power of the sod didn't have any trouble
getting through there now this is a
pretty aggressive saw blade that comes
packaged with the saw but it had no
trouble getting through this Paducah
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and the quick analysis is that it cuts
great kind of leaves a mess so one of
the big challenges that I have with this
particular saw is that unlike my old
delta which locked into place really
well at zero degrees or a ninety degree
cut this one isn't quite lock in the
same way and see if you can hear the
clicking so the problem with that is
there's a little bit of play there's
like a one degree or half to replay
depending on where that click comes in
and it doesn't really make a firm seat
into that slot so you have to hope that
it's 90 degrees and very often let's say
I lock it into place here after it
clicked and I check the blade you know
it's actually off by about a half degree
and so you can't really trust the zero
degree measure you almost have to play
with it so that you know you're gonna
get a good 90 degree cut and then I
would lock it down
let's talk about a summary I thought
this was a fantastic entry-level miter
saw it's a good value I spent 99 bucks
on this if you're just building up a
shop it's a great option it's also
pretty lightweight and easy to carry to
the job site or moving around from room
to room I like the safety switch because
I do leave this on my bench plugged in
it makes nice compound cuts the laser
line feature really helps you when
you're doing a lot of cuts for quick
framing it's got a very powerful motor
and I really like the hold down clamp
that came with this saw things that
weren't so great the 90 degree table
lock on the saw wasn't exact you had to
check it with a square to make sure the
blade cut at 90 and the dust collection
port was kind of worthless so I think if
you have a square handy to make sure
your blade is at 90
your your safe invest in a sixty tooth
our bite blade you're going to want to
engineer some sort of a catch basin and
maybe a raised platform to extend the
cutting table overall thumbs up
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