Bosch 5412L 12-Inch Dual Bevel Slide Miter Saw with Laser Tracking

by Bosch

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Cut flawless crown moldings and much more with the Bosch 5412L. This first-of-its-kind 12-inch dual-bevel sliding compound miter saw features a powerful motor and bevel detents to the left and right. With up-front controls and arbor-mounted laser tracking, the tool ensures you complete control over the saw for stunningly precise cuts.

For expert accuracy, the saw includes a laser tracking system and a carbide-tipped blade.View larger.

The Bosch 5412L Sliding Miter Saw kit includes: Bosch 5412L Sliding Miter Saw 12-inch, 60-tooth, thin, carbide-tipped kerf blade Wrench set Tool-free vertical work clamp Dust bag Arbor laser/3x battery

Use the extending base for extra-large material and the electric brake for fast, repetitive cuts.View larger.

Powerful Motor and Versatile Cutting Capacity
The 5412L's heavy-duty 15 Amp, 3 HP motor spins the 12-inch blade at up to 3,800 RPM for smooth, easy cuts. The 25-1/2 inch aluminum base incorporates the industry's only integrated material supports extending to 40 inches in total length for handling extra-large stock, and the 4-1/2-inch speed-track sliding fence allows for increased crown molding cutting capacities. The saw is equipped with a fast-acting electric brake, which stops the blade within seconds for quick and easy repetitive cuts.

Up-Front Controls Keep You in Command
With its up-front, easy-to-reach bevel-angle controls, the 5412L lets you make adjustments efficiently without having to reach around to the back of the saw. And with the saw's innovative, four-position handle, you'll experience ergonomic comfort for even more effective performance.

Innovative Features Offer Superior Precision, Long-Lasting Consistency
You can count on the 5412L to get the job done with a superior level of precision, with the help of its arbor-mounted laser tracking system. This tool provides sharply accurate laser lines for precise cutting.

Bosch's exclusive Wedge-and-Slot Miter Detent System is cast into the base to enable consistent and precise miter cuts throughout the long life of the saw. The 5412L offers 10 detents, 47 degree bevels to the left and right, bevel stops at 0.00, 33.9, and 45.0 degrees (left and right), and convenient crown molding stops at 31.6 degrees when stock is laying flat. And the 12 inch blade offers increased cutting capacities over standard 10 inch miter saws.

The Bosch 5412L Sliding Miter Saw measures 20 inches tall, has a one-inch arbor, and weighs in at a sturdy 59 pounds. It is backed by Bosch's one-year limited warranty, 30-day money back guarantee, and one-year service protection plan.

What's in the Box
Bosch 5412L Sliding Miter Saw, 12-inch, 60-tooth, thin, carbide-tipped kerf blade, wrench set, tool-free vertical work clamp, dust bag, and arbor laser/3X battery.

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The Robert Bosch Tool Corporation enjoys a well-earned reputation for producing high-quality, well-engineered power tools. And we're glad to report that the new Bosch 5412L 12-inch dual-bevel sliding compound miter saw is no exception. This remarkable tool combines unrivaled speed and power with impressive cutting capabilities. It’s also loaded with several innovative, user-friendly features, such as a laser that indicates exactly where the blade will cut. So, whether you’re a professional contractor or a serious do-it-yourselfer, the 5412L will handle virtually any cut, including square crosscuts, miter cuts, bevel cuts and compound angle cuts. In fact, the only type of cut this saw can’t make is a rip cut, but that’s true of any power miter saw.

The saw’s large 12-inch blade, powerful 3-horsepower motor and dual slide rail permits crosscutting boards up to 4-1/2 inches thick by 12 inches long. When set for a 45-degree miter-cut, it’ll cut up to 4 inches thick by 8-1/2 inches long. At a 45-degree bevel, the saw’s capacity is 2-3/4 inches by 12 inches. And when you set both the miter and bevel angles for a compound cut, the saw will cut up to 2-3/4 inches by 8-1/2 inches. This is the ideal tool for installing crown molding. It’ll cut crown up to 12 inches wide when the molding is laid flat on the worktable, and up to 6 inches wide when it’s held at an angle against the saw fence.

The 5412L also features convenient up-front adjustments of all bevel and miter settings, a four-position handle, work hold-down clamps, two sliding fences, dust-collection bag, and built-in sliding extensions that support boards up to 40 inches long. The motor is equipped with an electric brake that stops the blade within a split second of releasing the trigger. At 59 pounds, this isn’t the most portable miter saw on the market, but that small drawback is more than compensated by this tool’s superior performance and innovative features. -- Joseph Truini

What’s in the Box
Bosch 5412L 12-inch dual-bevel sliding miter saw, 60-tooth carbide-tipped saw blade, blade wrench, flip-down crown molding stop, hold-down clamps, dust-collection bag, batteries for laser, instructional manual

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• Shipping Weight: 78 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0007LQPUQ
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• Item model number: 5412L
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (134 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,927 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #62 in Home Improvement > Power & Hand Tools > Power Tools > Saws > Miter Saws
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

93 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works great, makes a bit of a mess, September 4, 2005

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Craig Detter (Chicago, IL - United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bosch 5412L 12-Inch Dual Bevel Slide Miter Saw with Laser Tracking (Tools & Home Improvement)

This saw is a typical high-quality Bosch tool. Every tool I've purchased with the Bosch name on it seems to be the best tool I've owned of the breed (from a design standpoint). I mostly work on furniture projects at home, which is why the slider feature of this saw comes in handy (for cutting wider boards). If that isn't a requirement for you, the Bosch 4212L will likely fit your needs (at about 1/2 the price). I upgraded from a Delta chop saw that was not nearly as accurate or easy to use (and was a single, not dual bevel like this Bosch).

The controls are very easy to read (large print) and the adjustment knobs and levers are easy to get to. The bevel adjustment takes more elbow grease to move than you might expect it to, maybe by design. The Delta would just flop over once I loosened the neck. This Bosch takes a good push or pull of the lift handle to move it off of the vertical position.

There are a couple of lift handles on the Bosch which makes it much easier to tote around.

My saw stop (Sawhelper Ultrafence) doesn't attach out of the box to this saw very well. I contacted the fence manufacturer to find out how to attach it, some drilling was required into my new saw, ugh. It would be nice if there were interface standards for attaching extension tables to chop saws. I can't imagine that too many professionals are out there don't use stops to increase accuracy and consistency.

This Bosch saw is the first chop saw I've purchased with the laser, which works well. However, the laser is only on one side (left side) and doesn't turn on until the blade is spinning. It was simply a washer installed (came uninstalled) on the outside of the blade with a laser light which means if you take your old saw and buy the aftermarket laser washer, you've now got a laser-enabled saw. Again, this would have made a considerable improvement to my old saw.

The only real complaint that I have is that they should have designed it so that it was easy to connect a 4" vacuum system. As mentioned by another reviewer, the dust bag is a waste of space. It doesn't collect 10% of the dust. Like many shops, I have a Jet 1100 4" vacuum system, which worked better with the old Delta just by banding the hose to the neck.

With the Bosch, however, the center of the neck of the saw is so wide (like 3-4") all the dust hits the neck and bounces everywhere. All Bosch would have to do is redesign the base of the neck so that a 4" plastic tube could be inserted directly into the neck facing straight at the blade and this saw would be off the hook! I'm sure a decent vacuum system could catch 95% of the dust with this modest redesign of the neck.

I know there are aftermarket dust catchers for chop saws. I found one that had a large bucket design, but I doubt that one would work well given the slider and overall design of this saw, maybe I'm wrong. The least Bosch could have done is to provide some logical hole locations for bolting on a vacuum hose.

Delivery from Amazon was very fast as usual, and reminds me why I buy this kind of stuff from Amazon and not eBay.

158 of 171 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This saw is not a finish carpentry saw. At best a framing saw., July 22, 2007

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Adamus (WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bosch 5412L 12-Inch Dual Bevel Slide Miter Saw with Laser Tracking (Tools & Home Improvement)

I run a small finish carpentry and cabinet installation company. We do the best of the best work for the best custom home builders and the best custom cabinetry and millwork shops. I purchased two of these. Out of the box I made small adjustments to set the first perfectly, it was very close to perfect adjustment from the factory. I was pleased so far. The detents were positive enough and not loose like the new Makitas. I loved having the bevel adjustment up front and looked forward to saving a lot of time because of it.

Let me start by saying I am a Bosch fan. I use the best tools no matter who makes them. Therefore I use Bosch's tablesaw, jigsaw (although Festool's is equally good with better dust collection), palm router, and digital angle finder. I was looking forward to this saw, although I overlooked some negative reviews when deciding on purchasing it and was particularly influenced by the review from R. Clark who claims to own a custom home building co. and demand perfection (he must be an office guy). I wish I had listened to the negative reviews because this saw is completely unsatisfactory for finish carpentry and I have to sell it as a used saw (hopefully to a framer so I don't feel guilty). One other review which had me worried stated that the saw was fine the first month and steadily became worse each month. This is EXACTLY what I experienced, amazingly enough by the time I am disgusted enough with the saw to not want to use it anymore the 30 day satisfaction guaranteed warranty was expired.

Some explanation of why this is not a saw which can be used for finish carpentry, LET ALONE SOMEONE WHO DEMANDS PERFECTION! After about 2 months (second job) the miter detents are sloppy and wiggly--exactly what I didn't want in a miter saw. The table got so tight it was almost impossible to use to fractions of degrees, and just a royal pain to use to 0 and 45. After cleaning out, lubing and loosening the miter table mechanism, it slides better, but the miter detents are still sloppy and wiggly--fractions of a degree (ie fine tuning your miter) are very time comsuming because the table moves when you try to lock it down, and wants to return towards 0 (though perfect 0 is equally hard to hit because the detent is wiggly and the lockdown moves the table!!!). It is very difficult to get the actual angle you want to cut. Not to mention even when you spend the considerable time to lock the table down where you want it, it is still hit or miss because the scale is the most clumsy of all saws--the marks are cast 1/16" wide--it seems this saw was only intended to be a framing saw. The bevel capabilities are also inadequate (although the adjustment up front is a time saver it is not worth it!--maybe for a framer...maybe). The up front lock doesn't stay tight and you have to tighten it each time you go to use the saw. When set to perfect 0 degree bevel, the scale reads slightly differently left and right 45 degree bevels (by about 1/4 degree). The laser is the aftermarket washer type which runs on batteries (another pain). Both sets of laser batteries which came with the saw died within 1 month. On the third job with the saw (a high quality blade was put on immediately) cuts are even worse, I'm not sure if it is blade deflection, bearing wobble, or something else (I don't care to troubleshoot it because the saw is not worth troubleshooting), but if you place a straight-edge against your cut piece you can see daylight where the cut is not straight. The millwork shop I'm doing a job for now has the same saw at the job I'm at with a service tag on it to be returned because theirs doesn't cut plumb--ie, where the blade starts is not in line with where it finishes once you have plunged the blade--so their cuts are never 0 (90) degree bevel. We are back to using the Dewalt 12" (new style, yet older than this Bosch) which one of my guys owns which is completely superior--the detents are rock solid, the scale is fine and you can actually guess what fraction of a degree you are set at, and when you lock it down it stays there. I didn't like this Dewalt at first because I was a little biased against the old style Dewalt from my days in a cabinet shop where blade deflection made it hard to cut a long miter. Also the capacity of the dewalt is partly achieved by a deep well to keep the slide short--which I don't like. But in all truth the Dewalt which I don't like is superior in every way. I am going back to the redesigned 10" Hitachi which I have used a lot in the past, and has the kind of accuracy I need.

Stay away from this saw. Bosch has made a complete lemmon, it must be redesigned. The 10" has the micro-adjust, I don't know why they didn't put it on the 12"--is it because they made this saw to be a framing saw with no need for it, or because the table/detent system is too sloppy to work with a micro-adjust?

130 of 141 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you want the best..., July 1, 2005

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R. Clark (Palm Beach, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bosch 5412L 12-Inch Dual Bevel Slide Miter Saw with Laser Tracking (Tools & Home Improvement)

I own a company that builds exclusive custom homes, and prides itself on custom finish work. Our customers demand absolute perfection, and this saw delivers exactly that.

When I took the saw out of the box, I was instantly amazed at the quality compared to other miter saws I own. And I own several-Hitachi, DeWalt, Makita. This saw doesn't compare. As for accuracy, as another reviewer stated, this saw is perfect right out of the box. And it stays accurate. I haven't had to make any adjustments since I purchased it. And this is after hundreds of hours of use. This is the only miter saw my company now uses.

If you are looking for the best 12" sliding compound miter saw, this is it. Bosch offers an 30 day money back guarantte, so if you're thinking about another brand, try this saw first. You'll be amazed at the difference.