I'll never be a real wood worker unless my node grew every time I told a lie... hell I'd be there 1/2 an hour before my feet caught up (there we go again, bane of my life, bloody imperial).
Unfortunately  that wood is only good for laminating/veneering... the mitre saw just shatters it.

Maybe if I stabilised it... I've got the pump, the pot, the cactus juice

and all I have to do is read, which I could do if it wasn't for my hate of bloody reading.

If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD