About a year ago, I noticed a small
Makita miter saw at the local lumberyard.
It was a slide compound
model with a 71/2-inch blade. I didn’t
think it was anything special
until I realized it was
cordless.
Recently, I got to try out
two competing models. One
was Makita’s BLS712SFK, the
24-volt successor to the 18-
volt machine I’d seen at the
lumberyard. The other was
Bosch’s model 3924, a 24-volt tilting
compound saw with a 10-inch
blade. Makita also makes an 81/2-inch
tilting compound model, but with an
81/2-inch blade it has much less
capacity than either saw I tested.
I didn’t expect much from these saws,
because the whole idea of running a
miter saw off a battery