Circular saw reccomendation wanted [View all]
My consideration factors so far: Price. Durability. Country of manufacture. I don't know if there is anything else I need to consider.
My current project is only about 10 boards to cut, maybe 30 cuts if I am really sloppy about it. But I am sure I would find other things that need cutting eventually, if I had a saw.
Harbor Freight will sell me a cheap saw for 30 bucks. That seems to be the low end possibility. It would meet my needs for the current project, but I have doubts about the longevity. But it does have a laser!?!
Milwaukie says some of their saws are made in the US. However, on a trip to HD, every single Milwaukie item read "professionally made in china". I hear some Makita are made in USA, but I couldn't find any. There was one made in Japan(the 5007MG), which I was tempted by, and seem to get good reviews online. Black and Decker had a Mexican made model. None of the others at HD were anything but Chinese manufacture.
If I am going to pay more than the minimum, I would really prefer to have one with US manufacturing, or at the least not made in china. I haven't bought many tools, but experience with other things leads me to believe that bottom line manufacturing makes cheap implements, and there's not much point in paying for a name without an actual increase in quality.
What do I need to know that I do not know? What am I overlooking? Is there a perfect saw out there that I should be aware of?
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