A recent project rquired some very accurate 45-degree cuts, and my Makita sliding compound miter saw did the job, well, _reasonably_ enough, but it was next to impossible to get the cuts absolutely perfect. So I'm looking for advice on two possible solutions.
The first is the Makita fence. It's a single piece of metal that formes the fence, with a c-shaped curve to accommodate the blade. Mine seems to be a bit off, in that the faces of the two "fences" aren't co- planar. So, while I could set one side to be dead-on perfect, the other side will be slightly off. This was a problem when I tried to do corner cuts on some corner trim. I might be able to bend them slightly, but that won't be very precise. Would it be worth buying a replacement part? Or...
... I might try to build my own fence for my saw. And if i'm going to build one, it ought to have some things like stops, marks, and dead-on calibration. A breif web searech ahsn't turned up many examples, so could someone recommend a good fence design for this saw?
Thanks in advance.