Miter Saw Stands, a Dummies Review

Miter Saw Stand

Few, if any, freelancers provide a greater disservice to their readers than those who generate fake product reviews. The worst of the worst, if you ask us, are those who publish page after page of "The 5 Best..." and "The 10 Best..." compilations. How dumb do you have to be not to realize that few (if any) people have performed a head-to-head-to-head-to-head-to-head comparison of all five (then turned around and did it again the next year?) You know the greed-sucking freelancer just compiled all that information from Amazon reviews... not unlike "Power Tool Expert" (Dustin Fredrickson) and his "Best Miter Saw Stand 2017."¹

According to the Wayback Machine at archive.org, Dustin's re-purposed this particular post several times since originally publishing "Best Miter Saw Stands 2015," moving text around and re-ordering his five entries. It's still the same rubbish, although Fredrickson did buff up the introduction. Well, he tried to buff it up, in the process making it look as if he'd written it in Hindi and run it through google translate. How else would you end up with garbled grammar like,

"Getting involved in plenty of woodworking with a saw miter throws up a set of classified challenges. Ideally, you do not want to carry the saw miter all the way along the trails. Plus, locating the perfect plain surface around every working environment is another taxing effort. This is where you look for a miter saw stand. While it’s been a trend to DIY the stand, the best miter saw will invariably be a professionally designed one." Wow. Just wow. We especially liked the repetition of "saw miter," not to mention the "classified challenges" bit. We can figure out the rest, but that one has us baffled. But there's more. There's always more with these people; weird constructions like these (all from the introduction),

• "Great tenacity of construction material..."
• "Aluminum alloys of the day are as strong and tensile as one could imagine..."
• "The compatibility clause becomes void if you go with a miter saw and a miter saw stand from the same manufacturer. "
• "Your efforts are in vain if you picked up a tool or accessory that does not harmonize well with the environments in which you work."
• "Extenders for saws: This is very much an extension of the universality of design."

Dustin continues with the interesting phrasing in his "reviews":

• "A generously variegated tool range, thorough jobsite awareness and proven durability combine to contribute to the huge market share the company holds in the segment."
• "DEWALT has yet again played all the right notes while making this near-invincible product."
• "...no other miter saw stand in my traceable memory went down and up with such urgency."
• "For the uninitiated, it weighs just 33lbs."

With prose like that, who needs accuracy? If you do, by the way, one of our sister blogs has reviewed the Dewalt DWX723, the heavy-duty version of one of PTE's favorites, the DWX724. The difference? our tool guy has actually used the miter stand instead of just copying, rewording, and spinning bits from different reviews like our Dumbass of the Day did.

¹ Dustin shut down his website, but the post still be accessed using the Wayback machine at archive.org. Its URL was   powertoolexpert.com/best-miter-saw-stand/.

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