New Saw - TS 55 REBQ

[James Watriss]

I'm curious to see more of the fine adjustment on depth of cut. If I remember the vid correctly, the unspoken sales pitch there was cutting through a sheet that was sitting on top of a stack without touching the one underneath it.

Not juggling a sheet over a table saw may turn into not juggling a sheet, period, if I read this right.

Then again, maybe I'm just not seeing something. I don't really trust sheet good thickness to be reliably consistent, so this is of dubious practicality, but still...

 

[Alan m]

I'm curious to see more of the fine adjustment on depth of cut. If I remember the vid correctly, the unspoken sales pitch there was cutting through a sheet that was sitting on top of a stack without touching the one underneath it.

Not juggling a sheet over a table saw may turn into not juggling a sheet, period, if I read this right.

Then again, maybe I'm just not seeing something. I don't really trust sheet good thickness to be reliably consistent, so this is of dubious practicality, but still...

im going to a festoo demo tomorrow. i, ask. im dubious 2. i think it will cut the second sheet or leave a hairy edge

 

[promhandicam]

I set my saw up so that it read zero with the blade just touching the surface of a board while on the rail. I then set the saw to 19mm to cut a sheet of veneered mdf which measured 19mm with a digital vernier caliper and the saw didn't cut all the way through. Even setting to 20mm, unless I was careful to press down fully along the full length of the cut it didn't cut all the way through. As I generally cut one handed it is often the case that I don't fully depress the saw along the full length of a cut - particularly ripping down an 8 x 4 panel. According to the festool rep who demoed the saw at the end of March, the micro adjuster is so that you can set the saw up to read zero for different blades, the theory being that once a blade has been reground a couple of times it will be a marginally smaller diameter. All well and good but I've coped for years without this ever being an issue.

FWIW, I always cut panels on a sacrificial board usually 50mm celotex or polystyrene - with the preference being polystyrene. As long as you set the depth to only cut one or two mm more than is needed the insulation board will last a long time.