Mini saw

[gasman]

I am thinking about buying a mini saw as I spend alot of time cutting small mitres etc for jewellery box drawers and so on. There does not seem to be a great range of possibilities - in fact the proxxon range seems to be about it in this country...
Has anyone got either of these:
http://www.axminster.co.uk/product....id=Proxxon&name=&user_search=&sfile=1&jump=44
This one is the FET which is I believe the newer model - with a plastic body, micro-adjust, zero insert, no rpm adjustment and with a long mitre fence
This one is the older model (but is more expensive - don't get that) http://www.axminster.co.uk/product....id=Proxxon&name=&user_search=&sfile=1&jump=44
This is the FKS/E which has speed adjustment, aluminium body.... but costs more
There is a German website
http://www.sell-it-easy.de/wbc.php?cmd=lang&lc=34 which sells all Proxxon stuff for considerably less than anywhere in the UK. Interestingly their prices for these 2 saws are almost identical. Has anybody bought from them? They answered a query from me overnight saying that shipping would take 2 weeks - and it would save about 30 pounds including shipping on the FET but 60 quid on the FKS/E
I am tempted by the FET if any... anyone know better? Thanks for your help
Gasman

 

[Paul Chapman]

Hi Gasman,

Don't know whether you are into using hand tools, but for mitres, drawer sides and the like, a hand plane on a shooting board will give you far more accuracy. Shooting boards cost almost nothing to make are are a joy to use.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Derek Willis.]

Buy a Nobex saw frame, you can't go wrong then, but as has been previously mentioned, a mitre shooting board is the really accurate way to go.
Derek.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Good video here on how easy it is to use a shooting board (and under less than ideal conditions) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMpp9xj9pVU

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[gasman]

Thank you both for your replies - I do use a shooting board and a mitre saw occasionally - but I also do alot of inlays where I cut 1-2 mm holly or ebony and fans made up of thin slices of holly and ebony and other woods which are a devil to cut accurately by hand

- so I really think a small table saw with a zero insert for the blade would be easier for me - just wondered if anyone on this forum has either of the Proxxon saws?
Thanks
Gasman

 

[TrimTheKing]

For that would you not get on better with one of these? Expensive yes, but incredibly accurate and controllable.

Go on, you know you want to...

 

[gasman]

I think that saw looks amazing - and you could do it in your lounge in the middle of the night and not wake anyone - but the price! - and I don't think there is a UK distributor yet is there?? It would be over a grand here I am sure. It makes the Proxxon saws look cheap by comparison!

 

[TrimTheKing]

I think that saw looks amazing - and you could do it in your lounge in the middle of the night and not wake anyone - but the price! - and I don't think there is a UK distributor yet is there?? It would be over a grand here I am sure. It makes the Proxxon saws look cheap by comparison!

Yup, but just look at it! Go ooooooon, you know you want to!