INTERESTING COMPARISON?

[NEW2FES]

Ok, I have been lurking here for a while and am sold on the Festool deal. I have downsized to townhouse living and need to start getting some tools back in my life.

I am going with a TS55 or 75 and maybe the MFT/3.

The thing is I can't get my head out of the table saw deal as I think it still will be needed. I just do not have the room unless a contractor and then it really doesn't fit my needs.

So, I am on the Grizzly site and you can get a 450LB cabinet style saw for $750. The TS75 with guide is $640 at approx 35lbs.  I can't help but think what is wrong here?

Ok we are not buying by the pound but they are both saws. I hope the Festool will need to be pushed out by my grandkids just as the Grizzly would.

Just a ramble by someone looking at saws for 48hrs straight.

 

[Ken Nagrod]

If the TS 75 is 35 lbs. I got the anorexic model.
I still feel a table saw is still needed ALONG WITH one of the TS saw.

 

[MrToolJunkie]

The best of both worlds would be to get each one.  However, with the proper accessories you can do pretty much everything with the Festool system that you can with a tablesaw, albeit a bit slower for some operations.  I have both a TS75 and a 3 HP cabinet saw.  As I have incorporated using Festools more and more I have come to rely on the cabinet saw less and less.  In fact, for the last several pieces of furniture I have made I have not even turned the cabinet saw on -- all cuts made with the TS75, parallel guides and MFT/3.  The parallel guides allow you to rip consistent widths, including narrow widths that are not as safe ripping on a traditional cabinet saw.  Now, I am not quite ready to ditch my conventional tablesaw just yet, but I am starting to give it some thought -- reclaiming that floor space would be huge.  I might the Festool system first and see what limitations it has for the type of work you do and then consider adding a tablesaw later.  You might find that you do not miss it.  Given the choice I would rather have a big bandsaw to go with my TS75 than a tablesaw, but YMMV.

Scot

 

[Jesse Cloud]

Dude!  The TS75 would be really hard to lift at 450 lbs! [eek]

Seriously, I have both.  I use them both, but if one had to go, it would definitely be the Unisaw.