This Old House has recently published a “Tool Test” on compound miter saws.  Now this sounds like an excellent article for anyone looking to buy a new miter saw right? Well not so much, instead of doing a detailed article rating each saw, and giving buying advice TOH gives a handful of specs and then a one sentence impression by an expert.  That’s all you get.  This article is of course constructed as a slide show as if the pictures of the miter saws is the most exciting part.   This of course is done just to stick more ads in front of your face.  The article is pretty much the most useless piece of “reporting” that I’ve come across lately, and is  one of the main reasons why I’ve started this site.

The truly sad thing about this is that TOH gathered together $4,000 worth of miter saws, hired a professional carpenter to use them a bit, hired a professional photographer to photograph them,  and after all that produced something that holds absolutely no value to the consumer.  TOH instead relies on the popularity of their excellent TV show, to drive traffic to their website to be fooled into clicking through these articles hoping for some actual useful information.  I’ve attached the link to the ‘Print” version of the article, which contains the full article on a single page.

Source: This Old House