This weekend I purchased my first Festool product, a TS55 REQ, for breaking down sheets of plywood for cabinet building.
I brought it home and tested on some 3/4" baltic birch. Crosscutting with the off-cut side chip guard in place, the top side of the wood looks almost perfect, however I'm getting some chipping on both sides of the bottom of the cut. This disappears when cutting parallel to the grain.
I tried changing the blade depth from 1/4" below the work piece to the max depth. That helped quite a bit. I also tried slowing down the feed rate and supporting the wood on some sacrificial OSB, however I'm still getting a little bit of chipping on the bottom side.
Anybody have some tips for dealing with this? I'm using the stock blade and running the saw speed at 6. I'm probably doing something wrong as I don't see many chipping complaints for this saw. This is my first endeavor into track saws and I've really only done rough cuts with circular saws in the past. I want nice clean edges for the cabinets I'm building.
I brought it home and tested on some 3/4" baltic birch. Crosscutting with the off-cut side chip guard in place, the top side of the wood looks almost perfect, however I'm getting some chipping on both sides of the bottom of the cut. This disappears when cutting parallel to the grain.
I tried changing the blade depth from 1/4" below the work piece to the max depth. That helped quite a bit. I also tried slowing down the feed rate and supporting the wood on some sacrificial OSB, however I'm still getting a little bit of chipping on the bottom side.
Anybody have some tips for dealing with this? I'm using the stock blade and running the saw speed at 6. I'm probably doing something wrong as I don't see many chipping complaints for this saw. This is my first endeavor into track saws and I've really only done rough cuts with circular saws in the past. I want nice clean edges for the cabinets I'm building.