If you’ve never had the chance to see a live carpentry demonstration by Fine Homebuilding contributing editor Gary M. Katz, you’re missing out. Katz’s “anyone can do this” attitude draws big crowds at trade shows from coast to coast. Katz’s popular demonstration on mastering the miter saw is an appropriate choice for this debut DVD.
Mastering the Miter Saw (produced by Onsite Productions) is available now at www.garymkatz.com for $29.95.
Katz partnered with Bosch and Windsor One and hopes to create a library of educational DVDs on finish carpentry.
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This might be ok for paint grade casing, but making multiple identical cuts assumes that all relationships between flooring and door heights are identical, something that rarely happens in my experience. So is Gary relying on the painter to handle discrepancies? And how can uniform reveals be assured? And what about stain grade casing? Imo, this is a highball production method and not suitable for custom homes.