Leon wrote:


The blade is very important and Festool provides and has a nice
selection of premium blades. But a great blade can not make better a
tool that is not built for accuracy.
How many times have we seen the comment that the Forrest WWII does not
improve the cut over my "brand X" blade. The set up is wrong or the
TS is simply not capable of producing a better cut regardless of the
blade.
The big deal that we/I have found is that with the Festool saw you can
start a cut, stop, lift the saw, replace the saw, start the saw,
plunge and continue cutting with out being able to tell where you
stopped and started. Many circular saws are simply designed to cut
relatively straight. I have seen several, I own two, that you can
move the blade back and forth, in and out towards the motor housing
and that causes a cut that is not flat. It's the tolerances built
into the Festool track saw that puts it above the non track circular
saws.

That actually makes a lot of sense. I guess I never really paid any or
enough attention to the stability of the common circular saw blade.

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-Mike-