If you’re working with small parts, even the smallest table saw available at Home Depot or Lowes is generally overkill. For cutting up small pieces of wood, metal, and copper-clad board ...

The only unusual component is the saw blade itself ... here’s a neat DIY combo table-based project, and here’s a homebrew auto-lowering metal bandsaw which could be a real timesaver.

Cutting wood framing in hard-to-reach places, like on the floor or deep inside a wall cavity; Topping fence posts; Cutting ...

and the material to be cut sits on the miter saw table and presses into the saw’s back fence (i.e. a vertical metal wall).