Consolidated Q&A for Carvex 420 Jigsaws

Shane Holland said:
Cordless Carvex 420 hits the ground in the U.S. and Canada on December 1st.

There will be a Basic version which does not have the batteries or charger for those who already own a Festool cordless drill. Also available December 1st. The basic version of the Carvex does not have a space for a drill in the Systainer.
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Will the 14 volt battery from the C15, work on the cordless Carvex?
 
GPowers said:
Shane Holland said:
Cordless Carvex 420 hits the ground in the U.S. and Canada on December 1st.

There will be a Basic version which does not have the batteries or charger for those who already own a Festool cordless drill. Also available December 1st. The basic version of the Carvex does not have a space for a drill in the Systainer.
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Will the 14 volt battery from the C15, work on the cordless Carvex?
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Yes
 
Hello, first time poster here. I have several Festools already including a Trion D-handle and a track saw, the bigger one  (TS75?). I just received a Carvex barrel grip corded jigsaw, and an accessory kit is back ordered, to ship at end of November.

My question is about the motor. The Carvex spec plate states that the motor is 400 watts input, as compared to 720 watts for my Trion. Did I just receive a less powerful saw than my older saw, or is the new motor that much more efficient that the power is retained? Numerically, this is a large difference.
 
Welcome to the forum and congrats on the new Carvex. The Carvex has a brushless motor which is more efficient than the brushed motor in your Trion. There's plenty of power there.  [wink]

Shane
 
Thank you, Shane. I own a brushless battery drill that exhibits amazing power. At 400 versus 720 watts, and much more efficient, the Carvex must run a lot cooler in extended cuts than the Trion.
 
Hello to everyone on the forum.
I'd just like to offer my experience of the 420 jigsaw, it's been available for quite a while in the UK and on the whole is very good. In use, the saw shows hardly any vibration, it will happily sit on it's own with the motor running and stay put. The saw also has plenty of power for all cuts and all materials. One of the noticable things over other jigsaws has to be the weight,  When you first use it, you can't believe how light it is. The only small gripe with it for me is the two side switches to start the saw. They are not in the best of places, I have the 'D' handle and it would have been so much better if the switches had been in a more comfortable position to access. I've read in this thread somewhere that the light can be turned on or off but the light is on all the time the saw is running. One more thing to add is the extraction, Brilliant, takes 99% of dust away.

Jonathan.
 
UK Jonathan said:
Hello to everyone on the forum.
I'd just like to offer my experience of the 420 jigsaw, it's been available for quite a while in the UK and on the whole is very good. In use, the saw shows hardly any vibration, it will happily sit on it's own with the motor running and stay put. The saw also has plenty of power for all cuts and all materials. One of the noticable things over other jigsaws has to be the weight,  When you first use it, you can't believe how light it is. The only small gripe with it for me is the two side switches to start the saw. They are not in the best of places, I have the 'D' handle and it would have been so much better if the switches had been in a more comfortable position to access. I've read in this thread somewhere that the light can be turned on or off but the light is on all the time the saw is running. One more thing to add is the extraction, Brilliant, takes 99% of dust away.

Jonathan.
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The light indeed can be turned off.  The method to do so in somewhat complicated, but it can be done.  The method is described (rather well and that surprised me) in the very terse and brief documentation of the 420 that Festool ship ships with the saw.
 
Thanks for pointing that out to me Frank. As a rule, I alway's read in depth the owners manuals that come with the tools but thought that everything was going to be so straight forward with the jigsaw, I never bothered! I will have a read tomorrow. I'm guessing it goes something like: pull the trigger twice, unplug the tool, turn it upside down, knock on the base four times and turn the speed dial to number 4, then the light comes on and you have to do the same in reverse to turn it off.

Jon.
 
Not that hard.  Press both switches forward and hold until it beeps.  Then press right hand switch forward to fogger between modes - strobe / on / off.  When you get where you want, press left switch forward to lock into that mode.

Peter
 
UK Jonathan said:
Thanks for pointing that out to me Frank. As a rule, I alway's read in depth the owners manuals that come with the tools but thought that everything was going to be so straight forward with the jigsaw, I never bothered! I will have a read tomorrow. I'm guessing it goes something like: pull the trigger twice, unplug the tool, turn it upside down, knock on the base four times and turn the speed dial to number 4, then the light comes on and you have to do the same in reverse to turn it off.

Jon.
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That's funny!  [thumbs up]

The procedure is not quite that bad (and I have finally gotten used to it), but Festool definitely could have made it easier than they did.
 
The ten seconds seems like it takes forever when switching between modes...that is my only beef.  Other than that I really like it -- I use stroboscopic most.

Scot
 
Big thanks to Frank for pointing out the strobe operation, A quick look through the manual has described how to turn on / off the light.  Just goes to show you really DO need to read all instructions. There must be others who havent read the manual and don't realise that the light can be set to different operating modes.

Jonathan.
 
BeardMan said:
Is it possible to cut a perfectly square a 4x4 with Carvex 420?

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There are reviews out there that indicate the answer is yes, and from my own experiences notching 2x6 lumber I would say yes as well. I think the tool is up to that task, as long as you use a straight edge to guide and can hold the saw steady and not rock it out of square especially starting the cut when you have little support on the base. I'm assuming as well the use of the appropriate carvex blade.
 
Has anyone thought about or actually used the carvex battery version to go into the woods and harvest burls?  I was driving home just now and admiring the interesting burls on some semi-public trees.
 
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