It is just mind boggling how many angle settings you can choose to cut with on the Makita LS1216L 12-Inch Dual Slide Compound Miter Saw. This LS1216L is the real deal. It is heavy enough to do some real damage on the industrial scale, and would be a gem to have in any private shop or on any construction site. I know you can't go just by looks alone, but if you did the Makita LS1216L would win the beauty contest against and again. If you are talking about durability you can watch this miter saw in action. It must have hundreds of little pieces, but each one is made perfectly strong.
The Makita LS1216L is a corded miter saw twenty-two inches tall and about the same wide. Its length is a whopping thirty-three inches. I think it would be more accurate to say though this Makita saw is thirty-three inches deep. Of course it has to be a deep cutting saw to make the straight cuts at various angles across the table. This Makita LS1216L can handle a complex pattern of angled and beveled cuts. It boggles the mind to think of doing all those cuts on any other saw. You can adjust the angles on a horizontal level at the popular preset angles Makita has supplied for you. If you want to cut at an angle that isn't on the presets, then you just have to turn a little knob to clamp it on the particular angle you want and cut away. To release it from that angle just requires a pull and twist of that same knob.
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According to the Makita LS1216L review, the LS1216L arrives boxed at seventy-five pounds. The scale is constructed of steel, so it is kind of hard to think you could have problems with it getting too scratched or roughed up to see. The handle of the saw is made of a very comfortable rubber, very ergonomic; but then Makita is always conscious of their customers' health needs. This machine runs quietly. You hardly even notice the motor is running when you turn it on. You could just add layer after layer of abilities the Makita LS1216L has, which could very well be the sign that this is a well thought out and designed miter saw.
Many other products come off the assembly line not fully tested. You can tell just by using the Makita LS1216L and seeing the dual slide bars, preset angle measurements and the way the saw blade tips so easily into so many different angles of bevel cuts that it is a well thought out machine. It is not only well thought out, but whoever designed it had to anticipate so many things that could go wrong.That is the only way they could have prevented this saw from having even a minor defect. Some people gripe about the twisting lock mechanism, but it is hard to see how it can hurt anything to have it available even if you are a professional. It is better to have an extra feature than to be missing one. I like this miter saw. It deserves Makita's name.