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Help please. We are considering buying a new Miter Master M-52 double miter saw for our small shop. I am using a Morso chopper now and having my metal frames chopped by a local shop. We cut 10-30 wood frames a week. If anyone has experience with this piece of equipment, I would appreciate your honest opinion, and the goods and bads. Thanks!
 
10-30 wood frames a week or 10-30 metal frames a week? If it's wood, stick with the Morso, if it's metal, look for a good Frame Square saw. That's not that many frames so a Frame Square saw will do what you need. I really don't know much about a Miter Master M-52 but I can tell you that the Frame Square saw is dead on and does a great job.
 
The Mitre Master by Quality saw either in single or double is a great saw. You can either wood or metal or both depending on the blade you choose.
The Framesquare Saw though also a great machine is no longer being manufactured and is only available used but parts are hard to come by.
 
bhaley said:
Help please. We are considering buying a new Miter Master M-52 double miter saw for our small shop. I am using a Morso chopper now and having my metal frames chopped by a local shop. We cut 10-30 wood frames a week. If anyone has experience with this piece of equipment, I would appreciate your honest opinion, and the goods and bads. Thanks!
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PAckerman said:
The Mitre Master by Quality saw either in single or double is a great saw. You can either wood or metal or both depending on the blade you choose.
The Framesquare Saw though also a great machine is no longer being manufactured and is only available used but parts are hard to come by.
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Thank you for your input.
 
PAckerman said:
The Mitre Master by Quality saw either in single or double is a great saw. You can either wood or metal or both depending on the blade you choose.
The Framesquare Saw though also a great machine is no longer being manufactured and is only available used but parts are hard to come by.
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Thanks.
 
Joe B said:
10-30 wood frames a week or 10-30 metal frames a week? If it's wood, stick with the Morso, if it's metal, look for a good Frame Square saw. That's not that many frames so a Frame Square saw will do what you need. I really don't know much about a Miter Master M-52 but I can tell you that the Frame Square saw is dead on and does a great job.
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Thanks.
 
PAckerman said:
The Framesquare Saw though also a great machine is no longer being manufactured and is only available used but parts are hard to come by.
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Yup, no longer made but they just don't break down and when they do you can buy parts off the shelf for them. Really, there just isn't to much to break down. It is hard to find a Framesquare saw because people just don't want to give them up.
 
Skip at Quality Saw (the outfit that makes the Miter Master), is great. He built me a custom stop for the left fence on the m62 that I combine with a Fillet Master to make one of my least favorite jobs (cutting mat fillets), less onerous. I cut both wood frames and aluminum on the same machine. (Requires a blade change to high-speed-steel for the aluminum.) You might consider picking up a manual disc sander like the AMP/AlfaMachine/Fletcher/whoever-else-has-had-their-name-on-it to insure your miters are accurate. We get chops when it doesn't make sense to buy a whole stick for small one-offs, and the sander has bailed us out on variation in angles from suppliers. I now just sand all legs as a matter of course (habit?).
 
I used one for years...it can handle pretty much anything in a small/med shop. As long as you keep sharp blades & tune the miter in, it'll do as well as the big money machines.
 
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