On 9/18/2015 6:33 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
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.




Something that I for got to mention. I think it was Christmas time
2008. Karl sent me a picture of his new Track saw. We went to see them
on our weekly get together and he and I went out to his shop. I looked
at it, touched it, maybe even smelled it. LOL

Anyway he cut a scrap piece of wood to show me what to push, what to
pull, and how the riving knife came down with the blade and then he
stepped aside to let me make a test "cross cut" in a piece of plywood.
I hate to say this but it seems like yesterday. I set the saw on the
track, pushed the plunge release, pulled the trigger, pushed down to
plunge the blade, and pushed the saw about 6". I stopped and I think I
said daaaamn. That was all it took to see and feel the difference in
this saw and and any other circular saw that I have used.

I can only say it is a slippery slope. I think Karl may have said
daaamn when he saw a kitchen that we had built and installed and that I
had finished sanding with my Festool sanders and vac. He got those
sanders too. LOL He is behind in score, 1 Domino and 1 drill. ;~)