Plunge circular saws

[camardelle]

Who else makes them besides Festool? I’m sure they’re great saws but way out of my league. Looking for the kind with the rail.

Are the rails long enough for a full sheet of plywood lengthwise?

 

[ATTappman]

Who else makes them besides Festool? I’m sure they’re great saws but way out of my league. Looking for the kind with the rail.

Are the rails long enough for a full sheet of plywood lengthwise?

Makita, Dewalt, and Grizzly. Also Mafell, but if Festool is out of your league then so is Mafell.

Festool makes an 8 ft rail. Probably the others do too. You can also join two 4 ft rails together end to end.

 

[yhprum]

Aldi sells one.

Never tried a festool or equivalent to compare, but its OK.
I cut down the plunge spring to make it easier to use. I only wish it had a longer track.

 

[camardelle]

Doing more research. Also made by shop fox and triton.

 

[dnschmidt]

The dual battery Makita cordless is the bomb.

 

[camardelle]

Ok guys I think I know what the deal is. First thank you for your input.

I do very little flat work but I am about to equip my shop with several work benches/stations that I was hoping to top with a single piece of plywood at the full 8’ length. To that I was thinking of splitting a full sheet and that having a track saw would facilitate that but frankly for the pricing I can likely use a Harbor Freight circular saw with a good blade to cut the six or eight sheets I’ll need to cut.

I’d like to have one but financially it just doesn’t make sense.

Thank you for all your help.

 

[signcrafter]

I have the Makita track saw and live it. Once you use one you will wonder why you didn't buy one sooner. I waited way too long using a good saw with good blade and some homemade "tracks" from a couple of strips of 1/4" plywood. Now that I have one I laugh at my old setup. Depending on what you do you will find all kinds of things to use it on. And the dust collection if you set it up is really nice. I bought two 55 inch tracks and join them together. Kind of a pain but was more affordable then the 55 and 110. Someday I will get the long one.

I've never seen a Makita cordless one.

 

[sponfit]

Home depot and lowes both have a panel saw that can rip the sheet for you.

 

[dutchgray]

Get the Makita, its a great saw, their own blades are fine but you can get better ones. It uses the same rail as the Festool, who do up to 5m rails, while Makita does a 3m rail, which makes ripping sheets real easy.

 

[BikerDad]

Doing more research. Also made by shop fox and triton.

Shop Fox, Grizzly, Scheppach and perhaps a couple others are all the same unit with different colored plastic.

Probably the best balance of quality, value, features, and flexibility is the Makita. Makita and Festool tracks are interchangeable, so in the future if you want you can use the Festool routers and such.