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Quite dreadful
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Can anybody who owns one give me an opinion?
For 30 years, I've used a Powermatic 66 cast iron table saw that can rip and cross-cut 8 by 4 sheets accurately. I've been spoiled. Unfortunately, it's been exiled to a shipping container in Herefordshire and won't be coming back anytime soon. However, I still need to make stuff and my fingers are twitching. I've seen the Polish carpenters/joiners doing good work with the Festools, and I'm considering getting one in the next eighteen hours. (The bargain offer ends then. It includes two rails plus bag, two joining bars, two clamps and a moulded box for the saw.) What say, peeps?
Thank you.
For 30 years, I've used a Powermatic 66 cast iron table saw that can rip and cross-cut 8 by 4 sheets accurately. I've been spoiled. Unfortunately, it's been exiled to a shipping container in Herefordshire and won't be coming back anytime soon. However, I still need to make stuff and my fingers are twitching. I've seen the Polish carpenters/joiners doing good work with the Festools, and I'm considering getting one in the next eighteen hours. (The bargain offer ends then. It includes two rails plus bag, two joining bars, two clamps and a moulded box for the saw.) What say, peeps?
Thank you.
The guide-rail is a great thing, and the Splinter Guard it comes with works a treat. Makes ripping sheets remarkably easy, and very accurate. With the anti-slip stuff on the rail, you rarely neet to clamp too, I've used it on Gloss Wetwall without clamping and it never budges 
Depending what you're doing with it, the 'Anti-Kickback' additions are good (mainly for initial plunge into worktops) There's the 3-year guarantee/warranty, theft insurance-type deal, as well, and ultimately, if you don't get on with it (never known that to happen with all the ones we've sold) they hold their money very well. My Director sold his 8 year old one last year for £200!
