On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:01:53 -0500, "Swingman" wrote:

"Renata" wrote in message

A seemingly fairly experienced woodworker recently made a comment to
the effect that he would never again use a table saw to cut plywood.
He got the nifty Festool saw.

Depends entirely upon what you do.

Most cabinet/casework requires the dead-on accuracy that can best be
achieved by "batch cutting" of parts and I doubt seriously whether the
Festool saw will beat a table saw and fence combination for that.

Ask anyone who has to cut identical end panels for 20 or so cabinets whether
they would want to measure each, and set up the guide for all those cuts,
and you'll probably get a resounding "no".

I can certainly imagine using it to rough cut plywood to make it more
manageable in a small shop, but even for one cabinet, with only two panels
that need to be identical, I'd still put my money on a table saw and fence
for accuracy and efficiency.

I think I would focus on making the first one square, and the second
one close-but-slightly-larger. The template-following router bit is
my new best friend.

Of course, if I had a table saw with infeed and outfeed tables large
enough to stabilize a 4x8 sheet, there would be no where to stand in
my shop, so I am perhaps biased.

- Ken


Just my tuppence ...