The 12" double-bevel, sliding one.
Got it unpacked and installed last night. My initial impressions are:
- It's built like a tank. VERY sturdy. Sucker weighs over 50 pounds!
- It DOES have fine adjustments for setting up and guaranteeing precision cuts.
- I can understand why it doesn't have a blade-brake. Spinning a 12" blade at 3,800 rpm generates a LOT of momentum. To stop that much mass from rotating would take the disk brakes off a Porsche.
- Complaints about the dust collector bag being insufficient are probably well founded. Seemingly, the bag only catches sawdust that happens to get flung in its direction. I suppose for really good results, you would hook up the saw to your shop dust collector.
I haven't actually CUT anything yet, so I can't report on that. Heck, the thing looks so pretty, I may NEVER use it. But if and when I do, I have every expectation that it will work as advertised.
The saw is on sale today (Saturday, 3/9/2013) and tomorrow for $119.00 at your local HF store. That is, if they have any left; on Friday, a clerk told me it was a very popular item and going fast.
Here's the specs: