JessEm 07150 Mite-R-Excel II Precision Anodized Aluminum Miter Gauge with Adjustable Fence and Micro Adjuster for Table Saws

This is hands down the best miter gauge you will ever lay your hands on. It was very easy to assemble and was dead on perfectly square. It’s beefy and engineered perfectly. Compared to this miter gauge all others don’t even come close. The vernier scale letting you dial in miters to the tenth of an inch is brilliant. The adjustment to fit the miter bar to your miter slot is easy and gives you a slop free action. I love that you are able to adjust the top scale so it’s actually useable and your cut piece is the dimension you want. The flip stop is solid, easy to use and out of the way if you don’t need it. There are no negatives. If you need a well made miter gauge, this is the one you want.

You don’t need to spend this money if you’re building decks or a shed for the back yard. If you’re doing precision work this is the best miter gauge I have seen out there. It is rigid, tight in the slot, reliably zeroed, capable of very fine adjustment and the build is absolutely bombproof versus any of the high end competitors. It arrived well packaged, in perfect condition, had all of the listed parts and a bit of spare hardware as well. This one also included a micrometer adjustment for the length stop assembly on the fence. It took me just under an hour to assemble it and get it dialed in on my saw (JET Exacta Deluxe). The included manual was well written and walked me through step by step. The mechanisms for adjustment were well thought out and very robust. Once I was finished, I made 6 cuts: (1) at 90, (1) at 45 and (1) at 36.5 then repeated this once again. Accuracy and repeatability were astounding at less than .5 degrees! I build custom furniture, the good stuff. This allows me to make razor tight joints on my main working saw versus transitioning to the miter saw without sacrificing any precision. It’s nice to see that there are still precision toolmakers servicing the woodworking world versus mass producing companies whose main selling point is the elaborate multicolor anodizing they slap on their products. Well done JessEm.

Beautiful piece of equipment; the quality of the materials, design, and build is just outstanding. There are several other premium miter gauges out there, but this Jessem Mite-R-Excel II is at the top of the list. If I had to pick just one (of several) features I love, it would be the flip stop. It is rock-solid, micro-adjustable, easy to set, and out of the way when not needed.

It’s smooth and accurate. The material and workmanship is very nice and just what you would expect to see with the price tag. Setup for mine was minimal. I’m a sucker for Jessem equipment. Sometimes I feel like it is overpriced but when stop and think about it, I realize that quality isn’t cheap. That said, I feel they could have made this one better. They could have beefed up the extendable part and made the whole fence a tad bit longer. The stop on the extension however, is annoying. It is fine if you aren’t using a waste board but, if you are, it only sticks out 1/4”. I kinda shake my head every time. The rule attached to the top is adjustable, durable, and plenty accurate for most things but, the stop is made so you can’t line up the actual stop face with the rule. You have to use the body of the stop to set the length after adjusting the rule accordingly. Works fine but, took awhile to get comfortable with it. Maybe I missed something and don’t understand how to use those parts. No doubt, overall I enjoy using it and any happiness I can find at work adds up to a better day. I don’t regret laying out the money for it at all. I feel it was worth it.

This thing is solid, everything is exactly as described and will still impress once you take it out of the box. How solid is this? I joked to my wife that in a pinch, I just bought not just a tool, but something that in a pinch could be used for home defense against an intruder, lol.

I went back and forth on many different miter gauges and settled on the Jessem having owned a few other Jessem products I'm happy with. After assembly, tune-up, and some testing, there are a few things worth noting. 1. The miter slot fit adjustment is honestly the best you'll find. Woodpeckers has leaf springs that automatically take up the slop in the miter slot, but it makes their gauges harder to push, and leaf springs will give if torque is applied to the gauge, reducing its accuracy. There are a few aftermarket miter bars that rely on similar compliance or flexure mechanisms that will not hold true unless you're cognizant of how you're running them through the slot. Jessem's adjustment uses a metal disk with an O-ring inside to act as a spring. It too auto-adjusts to the width of your slot, but then you can lock it down firmly into place. However, Jessem's instructions recommend using a piece of paper as a shim to give some clearance since the locked down metal disk is unforgiving against inconsistencies in the miter slot. This is far too much clearance and will allow the relatively short miter bar too much room to wiggle, especially before the rear disk has engaged. Instead, go to an automotive store and buy a set of feeler gauges, and use the 0.0015" feeler as a shim. Better yet, buy some 0.001" shim stock and then use that as a shim. Cellophane/cling wrap also works but is a bit finicky to use for shimming purposes. If your miter slot is particularly inconsistent, it would be worthwhile to file/stone the tight spots. 2. It was not accurately squared out of the box. Was off from my blade about half a degree. My miter track isn't perfectly parallel to my blade, but it's only off about 2 thousandths from front to back of the blade, so that would not account for it. 3. The squaring instructions are bad advice. Jessem says to take the fence off, and use a combo square or other square to reference off the miter bar and square up the fence attachment plate. This assumes your track is parallel to the blade. If you want to ensure things are square to the blade, the only correct way to do it is to square the miter fence against the blade itself. If you only use the miter gauge as its own reference for square, you may not get the results you want. 4. This leads me to the squaring mechanism itself - it's not great. You MUST take the fence off to access some grub screws that are used to push the fence's attachment plate into the desired orientation. So while you might be able to assume the fence and the attachment plate will always be parallel, it may not be the case. So to truly check for square, you have to take the fence off, tweak the plate, put the fence back on, and check. Moreover, the way the two grub screws work is odd. They push on either side, but there is no captured central position for them to pivot. If you accidentally push too far on one side, the only way to go back is to back off the grub screw and then give the plate a good whack with the palm of your hand, or push on the opposing side's grub screw, which will walk the plate forward from the body of the gauge. It's just a bit odd. It took me about 20 minutes of fiddling to get the miter truly square to the blade. The up side is that the screws used to hold the fence in place will hold it firmly once they are tightened down. Even when they're fully loosened, it's very hard to get the plate to move at all, hence why there are grub screws to provide the leverage necessary. 5. The micro adjust can only ride on the main bar. It cannot be added to the extension arm, which is an unfortunate limitation. 6. The sliding stop on the extension arm has some inherent play to it. Probably not an issue as long as you're always pressing stock against it, but the way it's designed isn't all that great. Again, not so good for precision work. 7. The locating pin mechanism to help you relocate the fence to its calibrated position is a neat idea but has about 1/32" slop to it that makes it kind of useless. Unlike the slop-free detents of the protractor, this locating pin allows enough wiggle room that you cannot reliably return to the correct position after moving the fence. Maybe if you calibrate it by deliberately pushing it to one side or the other of the locating pin and always do that every time you reset it, but it's unfortunate that locating pin wasn't tapered/conical to ensure it's always in the exact right spot. 8. The flip stop mechanism and the ruler cursor are attached to the same pivot point. When you flip the flip stop up, it slightly lifts the cursor, requiring you to push the cursor back down so you can get accurate readings. A bit annoying. 9. Something about the overall balance of this miter gauge makes it want to tip foward in the miter slot when you push it forward. Squaring up the fence vertically is all well and good, but the whole thing wants to kind of teeter and lean forward as you push it, so how square it is vertically depends a bit on technique. Overall it's a good gauge, and other expensive gauages have their quirks and limits too. It's just worth being aware of this one's.

I really like my Grizzly table saw, but the miter gauge that came with it is pretty much junk, so I've avoided using it for years. I bought this one on the strength of my experience with my JessEm router table and Chris Gochnour's review in Fine Woodworking. It's not cheap, but this is a happy case of you get what you pay for. Except for the exact location and width of your saw's miter gauge slot and squaring the fence face vertically to the table, everything is calibrated at the factory. Once you get those dialed in, it's dead accurate. It's perfectly machined -- there's no play in anything. There's a vernier angle adjustment in tenths of a degree, and you can easily and exactly repeat a setup.

Amazing fit and finish. Perfect out of the box.

Sehr gute Qualität .

Superb quality a must have item for all craftsman

Tolles präzises Werkzeug

Dass Teil ist echt klasse, aber bei meiner Metabo passt es nicht in die Nut. Ich habe die 90°mit dem Woodpecker winkel nach gemessen und der pasteperfeckt. Also wenn ihr eine breitere Nut habt absolute Kaufempfehlung.

Teuer aber jeden Cent wert.