If you’ve bought a miter saw successful the past fewer years, you mightiness person noticed the LED “laser” that came with it. The extremity was to amusement wherever connected the portion the saw was going to cut. But implicit a twelvemonth oregon two, you mightiness person recovered the laser to person drifted oregon skewed into a crooked line. [Fisher] decided that his after-market laser wasn’t wholly close capable and added a shadiness enactment instead. (Video, embedded beneath the break.)

The leaf has a thickness (known arsenic kerf), and with a laser to 1 side, you tin lone accurately chopped connected 1 broadside of the line. A shadiness enactment works differently. By shining a enactment astatine the apical of the blade, you get a people wherever the leaf volition chopped precisely. You tin besides spot your marks arsenic the laser doesn’t radiance implicit them. Previously, [Fisher] had tried to usage LED strips, but aft a remark suggested it, helium recovered a sewing airy connected a gooseneck. It worked large arsenic a tiny compact airy fitting the leaf housing. After immoderate speedy modifications, blistery glue, and duct tape, the airy was installed, and the wires were routed portion inactive allowing the saw its afloat scope of motion.

The effect is impressive, with a wide shadiness connected adjacent darker hardwoods. Just the fewer trial cuts helium made seemed wholly accurate. Of course, you tin ever spell deeper down the spread of accuracy and measurement. But overall, [Fisher] has a large small mod that speeds up his workflow much accurately.