Adjusting Miter Saws For Accurate & Square Cuts

Adjusting your miter saws is one of the most important things you can do to improve the quality of your projects. Older miter saws and even newer ones often need calibration in order for them to cut accurate and square cuts. Today's video walks you through adjusting two different miter saws, one with a single fence system (Hitachi C10FSH), and one with a two fence system (Dewalt DW718).

0:00 Intro
0:19 Two Types of Fences
1:20 Checking Fence & Table
3:04 Two Types of Detents
3:53 Adjusting MITERS on a DOUBLE fence saw
8:12 Adjusting MITERS on a SINGLE fence saw
10:02 Adjusting BEVELS on a DOUBLE fence saw
13:13 Adjusting BEVELS on a SINGLE fence saw
15:29 Four Things to Keep in Mind
17:22 Outro

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[DavidLee]

Easily the best and most comprehensive tutorial available. Highly recommended if you are new to using mitre saws or just need to have a refresher. Thank you for helping me achieve better results mate.

[jessejameson]

Best, most thorough and easiest to understand tutorial on all of you tube for mitre saw calibration ....in my opinion. Well spoken and interesting....thumbs up 👍👍👍

[franciscoaguinaga]

This was the best tutorial I’ve watched!! Just saved me from throwing away a newish saw! I’ve had it for a year and I thought it came out of the box cutting bad but figured there was nothing I could do.

[davidsalmon]

Superb tutorial. No lost time, clear images, clear teminology, very good advices and very good warnings. You're a pro. Thanks.

[RILRIL]

This is incredibly helpful. Easy to follow, detailed, professional. Well done!

[orestwitiw]

I have watched your video several times now and it’s been very helpful in letting me know how to tune a DeWalt sliding Mitre saw my nephew has. It just goes to show that while you expect the new saw you bought to be accurate it’s always a good idea to check and make sure it is. When I get my new garage built I’ll be buying a new 12” Mitre saw and I’ve saved your instructional video to refer to in the future. You explained what to do step by step slowly and simply and it was easy to follow. Well done and as I did in a reply to a comment on thumbs I give you only thumbs up👍👍👍👍👍

[kevinschlipalius]

Hi my name is Kevin from Aus as I am a mechanical engineer for over 50 years I enjoyed watching you aline your saws you gave a good discretion of wat you were doing in detail, in my case I use a dial gauge to line up my saws blades congratulations to you well done Kevin

[christopherpardell]

I’ve tried a lot of sliding miter saws. No matter how well calibrated, they are flimsy aluminum and plastic things that can easily be pulled or pushed off the line by your own arm pulling on the saw handle. So I just bought myself a 500 pound DeWalt radial arm saw made in 1953, and calibrated that massive and well built iron monster. It never strays off the line.

[yourmasterrenovator]

Definitely the most thorough explanation in adjusting the fence, the blade, and most importantly the bevel. Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏

[Vipurdy]

Finally and shocking! A video title that actually was accurate! No need to search for hours folks, already done it! Simple and helpful! ! Thanks

[Animalwon]

I really enjoyed this video. I now know how to calibrate my 1-fence miter saw. Btw- I never would have guessed you were British, I understood you 100% of the time! I can't stand to listen to instructional videos by foreigners because I often get lost on their pronounciation of words but NOT you! Thank You So much from an American, for this video and your clear speech!

[wuffpaw]

Hands down the finest lesson on the topic on the Tube to date. Thank you so much and excellen job! No fluff, everything you need to know and nothing you don't. Earned a new sub from me

[willb]

Wow, This is the best tutorial on setting up your mitre saw ive ever seen. Thank You so much for your help.Great Job.

[birdsnest]

Purchased a Dewalt Miter-saw and noticed the cuts were not square. I knew it needed adjusted but really didn’t know how. Now I do. Great Video!! I’m a a fan and subscriber.. Thank You!!!

[RutledgeRacing]

Awesome! I recently built a coffee table with my Dewalt saw. While making it I noticed some of the cuts didn't look square and it really showed up on the final assembly of the table. I used this video to fix the saws alignment and now we're cooking with gas.

[Deftallica]

Thank you so much for this video, very educational. As a new woodworker I didn't realize how many different adjustments a miter saw had to get it dialed in.

[RedEyedJedi]

This has to be the best video on YouTube for calibrating a miter saw.

[asddsa-uyko]

dude your channel basically solved all my problems in my shop and im not talking about this video only.i'm glad i came your page.

[saltymojo]

I was noticing my miter saw wasn't cutting square. This video came out just in time before my next project. Thanks man!

[nibbsminton]

Appreciate the video, helped me sort out a long standing problem in a few minutes. Sometimes you just need to take a step back and let someone show you what to do.