Spent 6 hours trimming out a single window because of bad miter cuts

Honestly, I was trying to trim out a double hung window in my own house last Saturday. I thought I could knock it out in an hour but my miters kept coming out gapped by like an 8th of an inch. After cutting 12 pieces of crown and throwing 8 of them in the scrap pile, I finally realized my saw needed a degree adjustment. Took me another 2 hours to dial it in and recut everything. Has anyone else wasted a whole afternoon chasing a saw that was barely off?

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kellygrant1d ago

Read someone saying to check your saw with a speed square before you start cutting.

simon_carr1d ago

Did you figure out if your saw was off from the factory or did it get knocked out of alignment somehow?

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jordan_henderson131d ago

Ha, pretty sure it came that way since I can't blame the alignment for my own bad cuts.