How far down the fence can you measure on a miter saw?

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A stop block runs out of fence long before a trim run does. Past a few feet the block comes off, the tape comes out, and every long piece goes back to pencil and eyeball while the saw sits idle. The M1 Caliber puts a digital readout on the fence itself and carries it well past where a block can sit, so a twelve-foot casing gets positioned to a number instead of a mark. Blade-offset compensation means the readout is the finished length, not the length before the kerf.

How the long cut gets set

Digital readout sits on the saw fence
M1 reaches past where a stop block sits
Blade offset built into the reading
Position long stock to a number, not a mark
M1 keeps the saw cutting between measures

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The video runs long stock through a miter saw with the M1 mounted on the fence, sliding each piece out to the readout and cutting without stopping to measure. Nothing is written down and no block is reset between cuts. That is the ordinary bottleneck on a trim day: the saw is fast, and the measuring around it is not.