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DEWALT DW715 Heavy-Duty 15-Amp 12-Inch Compound Miter Saw | 
| Brand: DeWALT
Category: Home Improvement
Department: Tools, Auto & Industrial
List Price: $559.78
Buy New: $309.99
as of 9/7/2010 17:57 MDT details
You Save: $249.79 (45%)
New (10) from $309.99
Seller: Hardware Sales Inc.
Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 15685
Color: Yellow
Media: Tools & Hardware
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 49
Dimensions (in): 27 x 20 x 18
MPN: DW715
Model: DW715
UPC: 028877505756
EAN: 0028877505756
ASIN: B000ASBCK4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Powerful 15 Amp motor capable of 4,000 RPM operation for extended power and durability | | • | Bevels at 0 to 48-degrees to the left and 0 to three degrees to the right for increased cutting capacity | | • | Stainless steel detent plate with 11 positive stops for repeatable accuracy and work site durability | | • | Weighs 42 pounds | | • | Includes built-in carrying handle for increased portability, carbide blade, extension kit, dust bag, and blade wrench |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The DeWalt DW715 Heavy-Duty 15 Amp 12-inch Compound Miter Saw comes with a powerful 15 Amp motor capable of 4,000 RPM operation for extended power and durability. With bevels at 3 to 48 degrees for increased cut capacity, this saw comes with an exclusive precise miter system and machined base fence support that maintains fence alignment for accurate cuts and an adjustable stainless steel detent plate with 11 positive stops for repeatable accuracy and work site durability. Four hardened steel bevel stops at 0, 33.9, 45, and 48 degrees deliver versatility and ease of use at commonly used bevel angles. This saw cuts 3-1/2-inch crown nested vertically for increased vertical cutting capacity and cuts 3-1/4-inch base vertically for increased vertical cutting capacity. Also featured is a 0-to-50-degree left and right miter capacity for added versatility in miter cutting. Its miter cam lock system provides increased ease of use and quick and accurate miter table positioning, and a horizontal main handle provides increased comfort during use. This saw also comes with a tall sliding fence that support crown molding up to 5-1/4 inches nested and base molding up to 6-1/2 inches and easily slides out of the way for bevel cuts. Its arbor size is 5/8 inches. The DW715 weighs 42 pounds and is compatible with the DW7187 adjustable laser system.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 28
 Great Tool for the price point August 11, 2010
QCtooling Guy (Queen Creek AZ)
I like many others did a lot of research on all the various brands available. All most paralysis by analysis. I am a journeyman machinist, and have worked for the past 20 years for the largest manufacturer of industrial metal working tools ( lathe and mill tooling ) globally. I have helped make all kinds of products from satellites to space shuttles parts, airplanes, automobiles to earth movers. So I think I know quality manufactured products.
My saw was dead nuts on alignment right out of the box. Parallel, perpendicular and plum to the fence and table. I found all of the saw's components to be well made and well thought out. The saw is fairly quiet, the dust collection works well and the mitre adjustment is smooth.
I have used this saw for a crown molding project at home so far and it has performed great. So far nothing to complain about. That's pretty cool.
This saw is a beast June 11, 2010
Teacher Mikal (Berkeley, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to admit,
I've always been one of those pro carpenters that thought DeWalt saws looked and worked cheaply. Like many of you, I have used every chop saw and dual compound miter saw imaginable. Years later I became a woodshop teacher. When I started, the old teacher before me had an nice new Makita and good old Hitachi stuffed in the back tool storage room and this saw set up prominently out on the shop floor. I decided to leave it there and see what would happen over the course of the school year.
I watched this saw get day in and day out abuse from students who cut too fast, started the saw while touching the work, let the saw run too long, let the saw snap back to its upright position, chopped wood not against the fence, never cleaned the blade or used wicked dull blades all day. I had students using pine and the saw covered in sap that hardened to amber. (hey I can hear you judging me fellas, I had thirty-two inner city kids in these classes [no injuries-knock on wood]. One week I had students blazing away for hours chopping hickory and pecan, leaving the saw hot to the touch.
Long story short: you couldn't find a better field testing environment than a high school shop class. Despite this merciless abuse, this saw cut perfectly accurate. It is loud, and the brake doesn't like the kind of resharpened heavy blades I use, but nonetheless, after school, I made fine furniture with this same saw. I made tight perfect miters with it It could chop cleanly through 12/4 rock maple full of nails on a dull blade (I know all of you are wincing, that's why I used a beater blade)
I used it to chop and cut shoulders on giant 5 in dovetails in 8/4 Bubinga. or trimming off a 64th of the same without it drifting away...always leaving my work dead on 90 degrees. We cut dirty two by fours, weird laminates, acrylic, you name it, this saw performed.
This proves to me that this saw has earned it's chops for the jobsite. Period. I wish I could say the same about DeWalt biscuit joiners.
 does not come with the extension kit as advertised May 3, 2010
Wayne G. Custis (md)
nice saw but does not come with the extension kit as they advertise contacted amazon they gave me 20 percent off so that is decent.
Dewalt 12 inch compound miter saw April 22, 2010
C. Livesey (SF NM)
I couldn't decide between the 10 and 12 inch. Opted for the 12 and glad I did. I just finishe building a chicken pen which involve cutting 4"x4" posts. No struggles there. I then built 3 nesting boxes. All the angles were perfect. My chickens are going to be very happy.
Only bug, dust collection February 2, 2010
M. Montgomery (Southcentral KS)
I won't duplicate what everyone else has said - this is a wonderful saw that is easy to adjust, and a joy to use. However, two quirks, one of which I took a star for.
- First, the dust collection isn't that hot on this saw. There is a port to hook a vacuum hose to in the saw support just above the spring that holds the saw open. There isn't much of a chute, however, to direct dust to this port. After using it for an afternoon of trimming trim for baseboards, my hose and workspace was coated in sawdust. With my earlier, cheaper Skill miter saw, the collection seemed to work a bit better. (That would be the only area of many where I'd put the Skill saw above this one)
- Second, when buying blades, I discovered by accident that the saw uses an insert that goes into the arbor hole of the 12" blades to center the blade on the saw. The arbor hole itself is smaller than the standard 1" opening on a `12" blade. No crisis, but threw me for a loop as I didn't figure out the insert until returning one blade to the store and wandering the aisles looking for 12" blades with smaller arbor holes. These can be purchased from parts stores on the internet for about $3/each, I think I'll buy a few just in case one gets lost.
Otherwise, a wonderful saw, very quiet and cuts like a dream. The default blade isn't all that exciting, but would work for rough carpentry. I replaced with a Dewalt 80T ATB blade, and the ensuing cuts look and feel very finished with minimal splintering. My saw came with the optional work light / saw aiming device installed, and that has been nifty too, really improves visibility of marks for cuts.
DEWALT DW3128 Series 20 12-Inch 80 Tooth ATB Thin Kerf Crosscutting Miter Saw Blade with 1-Inch Arbor
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