Additionally, the controls are all located up front at the handle, no more reaching around the back of the saw to tilt for a beveled cut. In fact, some early users commented that the glide is too smooth, so the engineers added a way to tighten the arm movement to increase the resistance.Īs a result of this new design, the saw sits closer to the wall, saving you shop space. It looks like something from the “Terminator” and is as smooth a glide as you can imagine. Instead, you can see what the company is calling an Axial Glide System. It’s the GCM12SD, a 12″ dual-bevel, sliding compound miter saw. This is a revolutionary design for miter saws. This year though, it’s about ready for release, so we can talk it up. At that time, attendees were sworn to secrecy. The trend continues this year with a new miter saw that Bosch originally showed as a prototype product at last year’s event. Bosch certainly caught my eye with the new router that I wrote about in our June 2010 issue, the MRC23EVSK. New tools are released all the time, so it takes something innovative to be real news. This is the company’s time to shine with new tools, and shine it did.
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headquarters for Robert Bosch Tool Corporation for what the company calls the “2010 Global Leadership Tour,” a two-day tool summit. As we move into summer, many tool manufacturers have events where editor-types are brought in to look at new tools set for release during the year, or in some cases the tools might not reach store shelves until the following year (these later releases are what we are not allowed to mention or talk about).