ChicagoYankee12

It seems that a lot of the guys who have been doing this for years use their RAS which makes sense. If you learned on a tool years ago and have come to mastery of it so to speak, then why upgrade. But in the same respects, a 12in compound miter saw seems like its new evolution and safer since the cut is not a pull. We take away the ability to do dado cuts but this might be okay. I almost want to use it because Norm Abram used one and showed me it could work wonderfully. In the scheme of buying tools though, if u have an RAS in the shop why swap it out and spend the money on a new gem if the RAS gets the job done for you. I think it just goes with the evolution of tools. Not as many of us are using hand tools like they once did...then we usher in the first stage of power tools that evolve...then the 2nd and what not. So for someone whos in their teens 20's or 30's to not have experience with a RAS is not strange since their is something else out there to get the job done. I do agree that we are seeing the RAS being an old school power tool