Osborne Manufacturing EB-2 Miter Guide

by Osborne Manufacturing Co.

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

You can produce cleaner, smoother cross cuts with the most stable miter guide available. The trombone-style adjustment arm provides more accurate and easy-to-read settings. The locking plunger is machined to .0025, with precision detents at 45, 30, 22-1/2 and zero degrees. Never requires calibration. Works on either side of the blade with full range of angles, forward or back.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.8 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: B0000223V7
• Item model number: EB-2
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #759,959 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Osborne Miter Guide - <<Formidable>> French for Terrific!, August 8, 2001

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Kenneth R. Buser (Hinckley, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Osborne Manufacturing EB-2 Miter Guide (Tools & Home Improvement)

This Osborne Miter Guide is simply terrific. It is easy to use and dead accurate. Mine arrived slightly damaged in shipping. I contacted Osborne Mfg. directly. They immediately sent me a replacement - BEFORE I RETURNED THE DAMAGED PART!! It makes use of the hypotenuse of a triangle. This makes setting for angles really accurate. The scale for degrees is linear, with widely spaced divisions. The slider bar is split and adjustable for snugness in the saw table. This gives a feeling similar to the ways of a metal lathe. There is NO sloppiness or binding, just a perfect fit. A truly great improvement over the traditional type of miter guide.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Used 'em all and this is the best., August 22, 2002

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Layne David Dicker (Beverly Hills, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Osborne Manufacturing EB-2 Miter Guide (Tools & Home Improvement)

I have tried about eight kazillion of the various miter guides on the market, from the "precision ground" steel guages with the reference holes to the ones with the keyed compass scales and "micro adjustments" et cetera. Frankly, none were all that precise (nor, based on outside factors, could they be) and, even if you did get them perfectly set, they all lacked the requisite stability to keep the wood in alignment! This is the beauty of the Osborne; the stock is supported from two points, one of which is well away the blade and closer to what will be a reasonable location for longer stock.

This item is superbly made, switches from left side to right side with one screw, and has a great stop (easily removable). But, mostly, it is stable, stable, stable. If I am doing anything that requires precision mitering I will either use setting blocks with known angles to set the guide and/or trim each piece until it fits (Forrest WWII, thin kerf!), but I have found that the Osborne presets are almost always right in the money.

It is great to see the best product be simple and logical in design, well made and reasonably priced instead of some kind of high-tech wizardry.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Must Have Miter, September 7, 2001

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sullygr "sullygr" (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Osborne Manufacturing EB-2 Miter Guide (Tools & Home Improvement)

This is probably the best accessary you can buy for your table saw. It is very easy to use and best of all very trustworthy. I have built loudspeakers for a hobby for the last 15 years. I use to only build square and rectangular cabinets before buying this tool because I never had any luck cutting angles with any repeatabilty. Since buying the Osborne I build truncated pyramid cabinets with 10 degree angles all around. With the Osborne, there is no need to test the angle or squareness everytime you adjust the miter. If your blade is parallel to the miter track, the osborne is 90 degree square to the blade when it detents to zero, 45 is 45, 30 is 30, etc. You can believe the scale! If you want to cut a 15 degree bevel on your table saw, just set the Osborne to 15 degrees, and saw a scrap board. Then, set the saw blade angle to the cut board. That easy and best of all it really is 15 degrees. The 26 inch fence, which has 80 grit or so sandpaper on one side, is long enough to support long heavy cuts without twisting due to the unique triangle design. The adjustable stop is also easy and reliable to use and can be flipped out of the way. The only complaint I have with the Osborne is it needs more expansion adjustment screws in the miter bar for removing any slop in the table saw track. It only has two. A third one in the middle would be nice for very wide cross cuts.

Bottom line... buy one you won't go wrong.