I can't see the advantage of this miter and can't figure out how you would use it. How, when  and why? What am I missing? Could you turn it to a 45 degree and cut both angles for a picture frame corner?

The reason I see is for making boxes and frames. the true 90 corner would offset any errors with setting the miter angle.

I guess I don't see a real advantage.  I stick with my digital miter.

I am missing the same thing you are Ron! It must have a purpose though.

I don't get it either......

I stared at it for a while and nothing came to me other than using it to check two 45's for accuracy....

If the miter fence is steel you could stick a magnetic base and a dial indicator on it to check your blade for parallel I guess.

My guess is that you would use for more steep angles than you can normally cut with your miter gauge. If you need to cut a 60° angle, I suppose you could turn the workpiece 90° (placing it on the right angle leg), and set the  gauge at 30° and cut it (sure hope that made sense). I use that thinking on my miter saw when I need to cut steeper angles. I put a fence on it that is parallel to the blade, and then cut the angle (90 - what I need), it would do the same thing.

Fred, I believe you have the best answer.  Steeper angles, are something I never thought about. Thanks.

I also agree with the true 90 degree angle, but there are ways of doing that without buying a miter that is designed like that one.

Fred W. Hargis, Jr said:

My guess is that you would use for more steep angles than you can normally cut with your miter gauge. If you need to cut a 60° angle, I suppose you could turn the workpiece 90° (placing it on the right angle leg), and set the  gauge at 30° and cut it (sure hope that made sense). I use that thinking on my miter saw when I need to cut steeper angles. I put a fence on it that is parallel to the blade, and then cut the angle (90 - what I need), it would do the same thing.

You can attach a fence to left side and use it as a taper jig in the right side groove.

 

It also makes cuts that you would normally have to flip and turn to get a compound cut on the tablesaw.

 

Allows for less set up time on hand held cuts due to the fact you can cut lower angle cuts (45º and less) and it has a fence that is already at 90º to the other plane.

 

It would replace about 5 of my jigs, where did you get it?

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 I was looking at miters on the web and this one came up. It puzzled me. Harbor freight had it for less than 10 bucks. I revisited the site today and it is no longer available. If they made it, it had to be copied from some one else, so I'll bet you can still find one. I'll do some looking also........to be continued.

Right after I respelled it as MITRE, this site came up, it is about $35

http://thebear.ca/miter-gauge-right-angle-p-1315.html?osCsid=b34419cd27b3b1737b27337583346d6b

dragon1 said:

You can attach a fence to left side and use it as a taper jig in the right side groove.

 

It also makes cuts that you would normally have to flip and turn to get a compound cut on the tablesaw.

 

Allows for less set up time on hand held cuts due to the fact you can cut lower angle cuts (45º and less) and it has a fence that is already at 90º to the other plane.

 

It would replace about 5 of my jigs, where did you get it?

I checked with the company and I also saw a pocket hole jig I wanted but they can't sell it in america because of a design by another guy ( I know the guy and the design and it's really close to the same thing).

 

So they won't send it to me and I might have to have somebody in Canada buy and send it for me.