Festool Live Episode 147 - CSC 50 

this is the BEST presentation for this saw....also love how it all goes back into the sustainer! super clever

See Peter Millard at the 10minute workshop for a slightly less animated approach to reviewing this saw, pro’s and cons.!!!

14 minutes into it I had enough. I’m interested in the saw but, can’t take this presentation.

Wish they would make a corded version

What a coincidence, a festool rep visited our workshop in Ireland with this saw on Thursday

I returned it 24 hours after I bought it. Horrible for not having the option for a normal Power Plug.

Order placed the second I received the email from oaktree. I have been waiting for this since the release in Europe. A very long wait. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris, we have all been there with cutting fences. 😂 I routered the edge of my 800 rail.

Less coffee, more cutting

Yesterday I went and checked out this saw at a local showing. I was very excited to finally go see it and spent about 2+ hours looking at all of its features. Previously to going I’ve watched a lot of reviews online from people stating mostly positive points on it and I think that it created some false expectations for me of the saw. I am not new to Festool and own quite a few of their tools, including their latest battery Kapex KSC 60. Due to the nature of my job, I’m able to use different brands of the same type of tool and can see - first hand, the advantages and disadvantages in each. I was surprised to find a few items and features in this table saw that made me scratch my head and am hoping that someone would explain them to me. Please reply into this thread, I will definitely check the comments and see where I’m wrong. 1. The saw angle bevels TOWARDS the fence 10° while beveling AWAY 47°. Old Delta saws use to do that, until the manufacturers realized that it’s safer not to wedge the piece of wood between the blade and the rip fence. This Festool saw does exactly that. That also means that ripping material against the fence at angles 10-47° (a fence which allows maximum rips of 11”) - will force you to put the material face down, if you’re ripping an outside corner miter. Therefore the teeth of the blade will be producing tear-out on the face (which is now the bottom of your piece). You can’t place the fence on the left side of the blade, the saw is not designed to do that, the sliding table is there. 2. The sliding table. It is very nice, but the saw that I looked at had a pretty noticeable difference in the planes of the sliding table and the main table. As you would push the table forward, it would lower, not by much, but enough to be causing the material to run against the main table. The only reason I noticed that was because I dropped the blade all the way down and slid the table forward with the clamped piece of wood. Normally I would think that the resistance is from the blade against the wood. I thought that maybe it was a cup in the particle board, but no, the aluminum of the crosscut rail was also leaving marks on the table, so it was catching too. I repositioned the crosscut rail forward to maybe negate an imperfection somewhere but it was doing the same thing. 3. The crosscut rail. There’s no way to put stops on it (at least right now) for repeatability, nor is it any significant length to do so anyways. In my head this is not something an installer would do in the field anyways, that’s geared more for a shop situation where a sled is used. But since this saw already has a sliding platform, why not just go a tiny step further? There’s also no way to attach a sacrificial fence to the rail so that you’d get zero-clearance cutting. 4. The outfeed base of the cart that’s designed to be an outfeed material stand is very clever, but it was at least a 1/4” lower than the plane of the saw table so the material was dropping when leaving the saw. Not a problem for when material is ripped with the saw blade being 0 degree, but when you’re ripping at an angle, the material has to be supported at the same height when leaving the saw. When it drops that quarter of an inch, the material picks up at the blade causing the distance between the blade cut and the fence to widen. There’s no adjustment, unless it’s in the feet and I didn’t see it. 5. The handle of the cart touches your knees when you’re working with the saw on the festool stand. The handle is not “quick” removable and it definitely takes some getting used to, but requires you to change your ergonomics by bending down slightly. I will most likely purchase the saw with the stand today, because we have tax free weekend and work for it. If the things bothering me are more than the benefits of cordless, I will be returning it for sure. This saw offers great features to me that other cordless saws don’t offer. Some include: 1. Systainer storage 2. Accuracy of angles and blade height plus repeatability of 6 programs on the saw and 10 with the app 3. Vacuum port and auto start with bluetooth batteries Those are features I wish I had on other saws, but definitely not instead of the basic features that other saws have that we all take for granted.

The feature is amazing but wish they have bit bigger version and corded. I really wanted to buy it and mostly use for home project but size and battery only is holding me up of buying. I'm probably just gonna buy the Sawstop Compact instead and will wait for the next version of the CSC. I'm powering most of my power tools now with solar power bank if I wanted to to be mobile like doing some of the work in my backyard.

Looking at the video the stop rail inset measurement guide is in imperial, is it reversable with metric on the other side?

I mean if i see my garage so full of festool like these guys here have i mean what else could you want more lol

Can we get it with all metric scales?

So if the rip fence is toed out, is the toe of the blade's toe adjustable as well?

Nice one:)

I’m in love just take my 💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸💸

Ah man…!! I love that Sys50…….

can I put a dado head what size blade it work

On mine the fence wasn’t aligned 🙈🙈🙈

Ck Woodworks/ Colorado Springs Colorado

Take my money, Damnit, just take it!

Seage I would have bet good money you were from Boston.

A masterpiece of presentation ! Thanks i’m getting one of these 😊

With Inflation as it is, that’s like $1000 in last years money. $2000 is a great deal!!!

No cord at all is a big minus for me

Confused. Did he say you can’t cut angles in inches? He cracked a joke saying degrees or something