Ten years ago, when I had to schlep my big blue miter saw to a job site, I’d sigh, grab it, grunt and go. Now I sigh, pop two precautionary Aleve (three if stairs are involved), mutter some appropriate expletives, and stagger out to the truck with it. That big blue saw does an excellent job of slicing and dicing, but I’ve long thought that about 90% of the cutting I do could be taken care of with a less-monolithic saw. Such a saw recently landed on the HomeFixated loading dock, a small saw with a big name: The Milwaukee 2733-20 Compact 7-1/4” Dual Bevel Sliding Compound Miter Saw. To speed things up, we will henceforth refer to it as the Milwaukee 2733 compact slider. Join us as we see if it can indeed displace the full-size slider of my (relative) youth. Read More