Spent 5 years fighting with my miter saw until I saw a video that showed me how wrong I was

I was always getting gaps in my crown molding joints and just blamed the saw. Turns out I was rotating the blade in the wrong direction for the cut and it was pulling the wood sideways. Anyone else have a basic setup trick that took them way too long to figure out?

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lily_sullivan826h ago

Holding the work piece tight against the fence changed everything for me too.

logansullivan6h ago

Tight against the fence" is the exact tip that clicked for me too. I used to leave tiny gaps and wondered why my cuts were always off by a hair. Once I got in the habit of really pushing the work into the fence every single pass, everything squared up perfectly and saved me a ton of frustration.