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So here it is. A thread especially for the koolaid drinking fanboyz.

Lets see your Festool setups and projects your using these tools on.

Here's my new toy all setup.



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#8 ·
Thanks for reminding me, MFT 3 and RO 125 were also used------- to curve the top.

Using the rail on the MFT and 1400 with a 3/4" bit, I started in the center of the seat plunged 10 mm, moved seat 3/4" plunged 9.5 mm, moved seat 3/4" plunged 9 mm. Nine plunges each direction 0.5 mm height adjustment each plunge. Did the upper of the seat first, so when I flipped it to do the bottom it was nested on the ends. Another 18 plunges, shaped with the 125. Easier to do than type.

The only things holding this together are glue and dominos. There are 12 in each leg at the bow tie. I had to make some 3" dominos to retain the top and go through the bow tie tying the legs together. There are 12 dominos in each leg at the bow tie.

Here are the dominos through the top 3" long quarter sawn white oak.

Tom
 

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Yes and no. Depends what you want from it. I don't use my table saw to cut thick material or large sheets so no need for a big table saw. This setup kills 2 birds with one stone. It's a router table and saw. It has built in legs so no need to carry a stand around so frees up my mft that i use for a stand with my current saw and it uses tools I currently already have. Space is at a premium in my trailer so having tools like this saves on weight and space. I can also use my UG stands and MFT's if I'm running. Longer material though the saw. it's a light weight setup as well which is nice when you carrying it through a house.
 
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I am counting the ts-75 in that price too.

You can't take the motor an blade out of your portable table saw and use it on a rail to cut something else. There is a sliding table for cross cuts, you can turn it into a router table, the dust collection will let you use that right in the room you are working in too.

You get a lot of extra's besides a way to make boards smaller.
 
#26 · (Edited)
I had to order from the UK as the people over here who are selling them want around $1500 with shipping for the parts. Which ain't to bad seeings they had the hassle of brining them over here. I had Familey bring them which run me about $1200 in total.

Cost depends on how your already setup. If you use all it's features your looking at about $4800. But if you have the tools already then cost is half that. Only down side is it will require a dedicated vac like the Kapex.

It def ain't cheap but what other company others something even near to how this setup functions. As Darcy says it can be setup in a room with no hassles of dust like a normal table saw. Even with my shop dust collector on my Bosch it still kicked out unreal amounts of dust. This saw will also be my dedicated shop saw when I need in in my workshop. Reason being is it can hang on a wall out the way when it's not in use and free up a massive area of floor space just like the MFT's can.


Here's a pic of the dust that come from my Kapex after a day of trim. I swept up the dust into a pile just to show how well it works. I would have this much on the floor from my Bosch axial glide after just a couple of cuts let alone a whole day.



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Perhaps when it stops raining here I will get to use it.
 
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Here's a pic of the dust that come from my Kapex after a day of trim. I swept up the dust into a pile just to show how well it works. I would have this much on the floor from my Bosch axial glide after just a couple of cuts let alone a whole day.
Dust collection with these tools is ridiculously good. There are some cuts, for example trimming less than a blade's worth of anything with the track saw, where the dust collection doesn't do anything, and you get a cloud of dust that the vacs don't pick up. Something I've learned to be aware of.
 
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compound miters on the kapex will make more dust also, but it usually just sits on the saw/ mft so its easy to vac up real quick. i always put a drop cloth down first so i can just vac up the saw and table real quick and roll up the drop.
after having the mft and ts55 i quickly found i dont need a big table saw on site.
 
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after having the mft and ts55 i quickly found i dont need a big table saw on site.
A curious side effect of this is an improvement of some of my measuring and planning. There's still some stuff - jamb extensions, odd floor boards, and the like, that still gets done best on the table saw. Those items now get measured much more carefully on site, made exactly to spec in the shop, then taken to the site for installation next day.
 
#31 · (Edited)
WarnerConstInc. said:
I would like to have the CMS for the saw, but I can buy about 10k pounds of machinery for that.:laughing:

I have my rips done when I leave the shop and anymore I can tune something up with a hand plane, power plane, my ras115 or with just my ts-55r.

Someday I will get one. Just the DC would be worth it to me.
Trust me if I had the room I would want some bigger machines like yours for sure. Until I get our next house I'm stuck with a shed as a workshop lol

If I couldn't have got the saw insert I def wouldn't have bought it. I don't do enough routing to justify it as just a router table. Shame there's no US availability. Well there is but it's expensive.
 
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