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   forestgirl | Dec 24, 2005 09:40am | #1

   Not sure why you're not getting any feedback on these -- people too busy??  Sorry, no help from me except to bump  the topic up a bit.  If you don't get anything tomorrow, you might try reposting with more specific info in the title of the thread (veterans tend to glaze over when they see a general "Miter saws" thread).  e.g., "Miter saws: Rigid vs. DeWalt" might work.

   I will say that one of the reasons I didn't consider a DeWalt when I was looking was because it was such a bare-bones yet fairly expensive unit, and they wanted lots o' bucks for the extras.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
   Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   paulc1 | Dec 24, 2005 01:43pm | #2

   I have the DW708 Which I use alot for construction (decks etc) I like it very much But the first Thing I did was check the adjustments and fine tune it. Been very happy with it. I own many Dewalt tools. Been very satified with them. I Don't have any experience with Ridgid except a friend of mine has the Ridgid ts3650 table saw and he is very satified with it. My only concern with ridgid is the fact that the only place you can buy them is from Home Depot and what worries me is if they want to be more competitive if they will tell the manufacturer to cheapen up the saw and use the Ridgid name and reputation and the HD marketing skills to sell the tools. Not that it can't happen with other tools either.