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Hi Richardrichard.selwyn said:Thanks for the review. I particularly liked your rant about the instructions. An excuse I have heard in the past was that professionals in Germany had long apprenticeships and therefore knew how to use their tools. To know about the pendulum setting seems unlikely though. The "instructions" say to set the pendulum between 0 and 1 when using the circle cutter - which setting did you use to get the circle shown in the test?
( I have some Felder machines which are excellent, but their instructions also seem on a par with the Festool ones. Luckily they have a FOG as well.)
I was hoping to cut some 2 metre diameter circles in 22 mm ply but am wondering if I need to do it freehand and then clean up with a router as the instructions seem to limit the circle jig to 20mm Any thoughts?
Richard.
I had the pendulum setting in position 1 and the results were excellent. I did not try any other settings.
I would have thought that 22mm is close enough to 20mm to allow everything to work okay. You should do a test on a piece that will be on the scrap side of the cut. I am sorry if I am inviting you to suck eggs (there should be a smiley thing for that) but do let the saw do the work.
Good luck.
Peter