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Default Good Choice of Table Saw for very casual home use ??

SteveB wrote:
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Huh? If you don't mind snaky cuts, a circle saw will do. If you want it to
match at the joint, you will need to use a table saw, if even a cheap one.

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A decent circular saw w/ a guide will do as well and far easier than a
small table saw w/o sizable extension infeed/outfeed tables on ply.

For a casual/occasional user, the space to dedicate to a tablesaw and
it's supporting outfeed table in order to be able to make a good,
straight cut safely is generally not available and by the time one gets
it out and sets it up unless there's a whole lot of work the cut-to-size
could have been done already w/ the circular saw.

It's no mean feat to wrestle a full sheet of 3/4" ply over a table saw
and definitely not recommended w/o sufficient table to support it.

It's one of the prime reasons I keep the radial saw in the long bench --
it makes ripping 4x8 sheets child's play from whence they can then be
taken in reasonably-sized pieces to the next stage.

But, that's not an option for most w/ limited space, resources and, even
more importantly, interest to have such resources invested in shop
equipment.

imo, ymmv, $0.02, etc., etc., etc., ...

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