Sears CabinetTable Saw

Charlie...

I thought they both had 1½ HP motors, so my bad. On the fence, the one that comes with the model #OR35505 $649 unit sure looked nice, and would probably be OK for many of us on a budget. They both include a dust chute/port, so hooking up a DC system shouldn't be too much of big deal. You gotta' understand I'm just a hack getting by with my

Given the choice of that saw with the OEM fence and WWII blade and $200 large in my pocket vs the "better" sears saw with the Biese... I'm thinking about what other tool I could buy, or some nice wood, or maybe a night at Foxwoods!

Mike

I thought a cabinet saw is defined by having the trunnion attached the cabinet instead of to the top?

Brian Elfert

Table saw power has been adequately covered in this thread, but I wanted to mention that a good partner to a low-power table saw is a band saw. If I have something really thick or tough to rip, I just rip it on my band saw. I can clean it up with my #7 jointer plane. Or, if I just bandsaw about 1/16" proud, I can quickly run it through the table saw to clean up that last 1/16, which will go very quickly with only one side of a kerf for the saw to deal with.

-Mike

There is a good review of the Sears and other hybrid table saws in the current issue of Woodcraft magazine.