Wide-Angle Wednesday: Mitre Saw

Bobsblips is kindly giving us free rein to blip whatever we like for Widwed at the moment.

I've had a busy day starting to prepare for decorating our bathroom which has recently been refitted and retiled (we went for just half-height tiling except round the bath, so there's walls and ceiling to paint as well as all the woodwork). Actually a fair bit of the day has been spent redoing some of the things the fitters didn't do quite as I wanted; for example they fitted the bath panel before finishing the tiling which meant that the bath panel could no longer be removed should the plumbing ever need further attention - oh dear! Anyway I've solved that one - it was the skirting board that was blocking removal of the panel now that the tiles had limited its sideways movement. Fortunately there was a join in the skirting not far away so I was able to remove a bit of it quite easily (but not without damaging that little bit). Fortunately I'd squirreled away a spare piece of the skirting when I fitted it 20+ years ago - and what's more I actually knew where it was! So having removed the piece of skirting I was able to remove the bath panel and trim it where it baulked against the skirting, then refit a new piece of skirting. Success!

What's this got to do with my blip? Well making joins in skirting works best when done at a 45 degree angle, so I needed to cut one end of the new piece at 45 degrees. Happily I've been the proud possessor of this wonderful mitre saw for many years - it produces the best mitre cuts you could imagine. Whoever designed it is a genius - it's much better than just using a mitre block. So here's a wide-angle photo of the mitre saw in all its glory! (I was working on it in the garage, hence the tyre marks on the concrete floor.)