Hot take: three hours on a track saw last month beat an entire week of hand saw cuts for crown molding

I was fighting with a miter box for days on a living room in Philly till I grabbed a buddy's cordless track saw for the longer runs, and it cut perfectly straight with zero waste has anyone else switched from manual to power for detail work and never looked back?

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grant_perry4d ago

That "zero waste" part hit home for me, I did the same thing with a cheap track saw for baseboards in my own place and it saved me from having to re-cut every other piece like I used to with a miter box.

riverp374d ago

Man, I totally get that but here's the thing nobody talks about - a track saw actually taught me better layout skills because I could see exactly where my cuts were landing before I even pulled the trigger. Hand tools forced me to guess and hope, but now I'm measuring twice and cutting once instead of praying while I hack away. It's like the power tool made me slower in the good way, not faster.