A woodworking appliance used to guide a hand saw for making precise cuts, usually 45-degree miter cuts. Traditional miter boxes are simply built of wood; adjustable miter boxes are made of metal and can be set to cut any angle from 45 to 90 degrees. Although powered miter saws have replaced it in many workshops, users of the manual miter box point to its accuracy, safety, quiet operation, low cost and small footprint as advantages a powered saw does not share.
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OriginTraditional miter boxes are simple wooden guides that hold a handsaw at a set angle, most often 45 degrees, while adjustable metal miter boxes can be set anywhere from 45 to 90 degrees. Despite being superseded in many shops by the powered miter saw, miter boxes are still favored by some woodworkers as more accurate, safer, quieter, cheaper and more compact. 1 Connections
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Miter Box is used in Woodworking.
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In many workshops and jobsites miter boxes have been superseded by the powered miter saw, however advocates for miter boxes argue that they are more accurate, safer, quieter, cheaper, and take up less space than a powered miter saw.
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any of various fixed or adjustable guides for a saw in making miters or cross cuts, especially a troughlike box open at the ends and guiding the saw by slots in the opposite sides.
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When was the miter box introduced as a tool?
The standard reference consulted for this entity describes basic and adjustable miter boxes and their current use but names no date or era for when the tool was introduced.
What would resolve this A woodworking-tool history source naming when the miter box was first documented, or its approximate century of origin.
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