Evolution Power Tools R210SMS+ Sliding Mitre Saw With Multi-Material Cutting, 45° Bevel, 50° Mitre, 230mm Slide, 1500 W, 230 V

Well designed and good quality. Easy to assemble. Nice, smooth action and accurate.

Efficient with effortless power to do the jobs I wanted it fo

If like me you have never owned a sliding mitre saw before, it opens up all sorts of opportunities to tackle new projects. I just used it to cut many pieces of decking quite painlessly. I dread the thought of sawing 32 of them by hand!

Evolution make a really great product – recommended.

Now I just need a table saw – or at least a band saw ….!

Brilliant tool, easy to set up and use. Really good value compared with some of the other bigger brands. Highly recommend

Before my attempts to do architraves and skirting boards were pitiful. Now pulled all my old attemps down and redone using this saw and they look extremely professional. Even my wife is impressed; well a little.

Easy to assemble but watch the videos first. Easy to use and very accurate once set up. Excellent for cutting mitres for picture framing. So easy to cut wood to length accurately. I wish I’d bought one 50 years ago – hopefully this one will last me till I’m past caring!

Fantastic piece of kit, transformed my workshop. Fast and accurate cutting. Laser shows exactly where the blade will cut. Forget the dust bag, you need a vacuum!

absolutely solid and sturdy piece of kit, perfect for the home DIYe

Only used a few times and worked really well. Only criticism is you do need manually adjust blade guards and guides to ensure the cuts are perfectly aligned.

Many videos online however so easy to do but saw wasn’t angle perfect straight from the box. Only 1-2 degrees out but when making frames and needing angles to align this then becomes 2-4 degrees out and mm gaps between joins.

Wouldn’t stop me buying again though and only took half hour to perfect alignments. Once tightened don’t see me needing to do this agai

Xmas present for my husband, he is delighted with it, does all he wanted it to do

I like this machine – a lot. I find it very easy to use, reliable and most importantly of all, consistent in terms of how well it actually cuts even the haviest of timbers (I’m a chippy so chopping metal isn’t really a thing for me, for the most part). Every now and then I check that the blade is still perpendicular to the bed, and it almost always is. There is a very slight element of drift, as happens with all chop saws, but I’ve used much worse machines than this before – drift is slow and lazy so I keep a magnetic level close by to check and make very small adjustments as needed. Not a drama. I find the thing cuts to very precise angles as well which is great for framing work in particular. Oh! And if you cut properly, as opposed to doing it like a psychopath, there is next to no tear out to have to sort out.

So yep. I’ll give this little brute top marks all day long.

I’ve been using this for almost a year now (home DIY), using it to make picture frames, cabinets, cutting fence posts/decking planks and much more. I can honestly saw say it’s a brilliant bit of kit! Before buying I did my research via Google and Youtube and this make and model were thought highly of by most reviewers. Seeing it on offer I took the plunge and am so glad I did. With the minimum of setup its easy to use, accurate, has cut everything I’ve thrown at it (wood, mdf, metal, plastic etc) and saves so much time and effort. Its not heavy so very portable and has been stored in the boot of my car as much as the garage – doing jobs for family members!

Unpacked and frame built within a few hours! Setup instructions are a little bit wanting but following the pictures got the unit built ! First cut and away I went the blade I had with the unit cuts wood plastic and metal so had a go at all 3 ! Excellent performance and really impressed! I dont normally recommend products as its individual choice but for the price and performance this wont be beat !

Excellent piece of kit for cutting all sorts of materials, done mainly wood and block paving cutting in the few months I’ve had it.

The thing is with a new powertool that it can take you into new places in your work simply because you have access to it. This is just one of those cases. My previous mitre saw was from Skil and it is very competent but there were angles and materials I couldn’t couldn’t consider cutting with it so they didn’t feature in my thinking on how to make or fix. I wasn’t familiar with Evolution as a brand before getting this but it seemed to offer the features of more expensive mitres from the big name brands and now that I’ve been using it, I am very happy with the quality which is beyond my expectations. The control is reassuringly solid, cutting (on a fresh blade) is effortless, the vacuum takes up the worst of the dust and the versatility of cut angles and approaches is challenging me to think of new projects for it. As with all such tools it demands respect but every effort has been made to make this safe and user friendly. Unless you are a professional putting your mitre through its paces daily, this should be all you need at a price that comes with less hidden brand marketing costs.

Very nice power saw, very good quality, looks and works like a dream.

The R210SMS+ is a new 2018 model with better features than many others I have experienced over the years e.g. Wickes 2000W mitre saw – a big brute but bulky and heavy with large clear plastic guard like many others that has trouble on bevel exposes too much blade and takes time to stop from 5000+. The newer demo model has a plastic thumb trigger that broke unlike the metal trigger on a Scheppach HM80L is compact for vans, comes with handle, cheap and ideal for builders stud work but to change 2 degrees out at 90 had to unscrew many parts and with no slide versatility. Folks who buy the R210SMS- model miss the dust bag and other bits but I would recommend even with this to put a 1 meter square plastic sheet approx a foot behind held under the rear feet of the machine to collect sawdust you have a tidy workshop. This applies to any mitre saw I have used.
The safety features are on YouTube see Russell Platten’s videos on this.
When assembling ensure the Evolution or Handle is upside otherwise the side spring lock-nuts prevent the slide reversing out and needs a couple of gentle mallet + wood block taps to release – as customer support’s instructions, otherwise the videos help.
At around 100 this saw covers most jobs required by DIY’s and approx 80% of trades folks requirements but if you want more you must pay many times over this and not necessarily get 100% value for money.
Blades wear out depending on use / abuse but I am still on my first Evo (Circular saw + fitted blade) after many years but I don’t cut metal or plastic/laminates only wood so as not to blunt it or heat it up – which will obviously reduce its life.

From initially opening the box you’re greated with a quality looking item, now mine had been dropped in transit, but the packaging had done its job and all was fine. After putting the deck together with the swivel and then the cutting head the unit looked powerful.

Initial power on you need your ear defenders, but first cuts were great. I started off doing a laminate floor, so nothing major, but taking angles, mitering a corner and even straights I was impressed with the performance with a new cutting disc.

Arranging the angles and sizes was fine, obviously you hold it yourself on a straight cut by the head swivel action was smooth and easy to sort, though i thought little too granular, I would go for Xmm and find myself off a little when the head tightened up. I sorted this with a little WD40 on the screw fittings and around the head. So out the box it needed a little lube; but who wouldn’t after being in a cardboard box.

I moved from the light laminate to some 4 x 1 planks, still no issues and later I even did a large block to cut feet for some furniture, so I was cutting down into 6 x 4 block of heart wood, quite impressively.

The head limit, that is the straight cut line, was of decent placement, but when I wanted manual control I had to take care to keep my hand steady, the return placement of the head was good too, though I found the cutter guard was a little flimsy, I would have liked a harder plastic to slide up and out the way, rather then this semi circle protector.

The dust bag was also a little on the naff side, but I can forgive it and indeed I fitted (with a jubilee clip) a duct to take the dust away rather than use the bag.

So, open it, WD40 the screw adjusts and pivot and you’re rocking…. I did actually really like the cutting action, but it’s not a perfect machine for an everyday user, the little niggles would not settle with me, but I’m a casual user, I fitted a floor, cut and repaired a gate and fence then put new feet on some lounge furniture… It was great for me. If I were a pro however, maybe not the unit I’d pick.

So far so good, this was a replacement for a previous saw that developed a fault after just 15 months but still under amazons excellent warranty

I’m a DIYer (but a fussy one). I bought this saw to do skirting boards and beading where nice 45 degree angles are important.

3 weeks in, it has proven to be an excellent product. It’s extremely accurate and produces a very sharp, clean cut. I’ve used it on wood and brass, with both it cuts through like butter. I don’t think I will go back to a hand saw again, this is so easy to use.

Changing to different angles is very easy, the slide action is smooth and really essential, and the laser is accurate and helpful.

I also bought the stand, which is a must. It lets you set up the saw wherever you like, right near the job and at a nice working height.

If there is any criticism it’s that it takes quite a while to set up. Like other people commented there are quite a lot of components. But the instructions are very clear, and if you take your time you can get it set up nicely, you shouldn’t need to do it again.

Product arrived but then took over 90 mins to assemble as it was in so many parts and you can’t understand the instructions – I was looking for a couple of screws and an allen key only to find them attached in obscure places to the machine itself. I’ve got it up and working and not killed myself so guess I did it correctly………

Having owned a non-sliding version of this saw, I thought I knew what to expect from this — but it’s an altogether more serious piece of kit.

There’s some assembly (necessary hex key included), which although pretty straightforward is not helped by somewhat vague and tiny illustrated instructions – to be honest if it’s almost easier to look at the photos on the box and figure it out for yourself.

But once it’s all together it’s a substantial and large piece of equipment — taking up a lot more space than the non-sliding version and weighing at least double. The key bit a metal and the sliding mechanism feels smooth, positive and free of play.

In use the Evolution blade cuts cleaning, quickly and leaves you with minimal clean up. The laser guide is handy, but wasn’t quite exact — so offer the blade up before cutting to be sure. As usual the dust extraction is pretty ineffective — but aren’t they all. Changing the cut depth and angle is easy too and has enough options to covers most eventualities.

This is my third piece of Evolution equipment and all have exceeded my expectations — this doesn’t disappoint either — definitely recommended for general use and perhaps light professional use.

Just before Christmas in 1999, I bought an electric hand planer to use while building a new porch for our house. I was almost ready to pack up and decided to plane one last bit of timber. I then had a little accident, resulting in my spending most of that holiday observing first hand how the NHS works during the festive season. The fingers I mutilated still tingle to this day. Consequently, I have never been particularly keen on powered rotating cutting tools.

I’ve often struggled since while trying to cut bits of wood and metal to accurate angles by hand, so I broke my own self-imposed rule and decided to give this new machine a try. I’m pleased to say I’m glad I did.

It seems to be well made, although there are bits of it that don’t seem to be quite up to the standard of my usual Makita power tools (the clamps seem a bit tinny for example – they’re fine, but not top of the range engineering). In spite of the minimal instructions, it was easy to set up and use.

I think I’m going to take the advice of my one of my fellow reviewers and buy a stand for it as it felt a bit awkward just sitting on my workbench. As the blade is mainly hidden by the guard in use, I’m happy that my fingers will be safe with it.

You get everything you need in the box, and a decent 3 metre lead too. Although I’ve only used it for a short time so far, I’m most impressed with the ease with which it cuts through wood, and I’ve tried it on a bit of 1/8″ wall 1″ square box-section steel which it handled with no problems.

As an update (late November 2019), I needed to cut some pieces of 6mm x 80mm flat mild steel bar for a job this week and tried the machine again. Frankly, I couldn’t believe just how easily it went through them. It took less than ten seconds for each cut. My power hacksaw would have taken a minute each at least and my Eclipse (hand) hacksaw would have taken five minutes (with commensurate sweating and inaccuracy).

I don’t know how long the blade would last doing this a lot, but it was so easy and precise that it made me appreciate the machine a lot more. My only observation is that there’s an awful lot of swarf to clear up after metal cutting and it does tend to get lost in the nooks and crannies of the machine.

To sum up, if I’d bought it, I’d have been very pleased with it, and I’m also delighted that it has restored my long lost confidence in powered cutting tools.