Hey DW. Thank you so much for this quick review. Sure helped me get a fine adjustment done in a hurry! I love this saw, but I don't use it daily and there are complicated options on this saw. I appreciate that you took the time to give us all a quick overview. Im sure I will revisit this again as time goes on!
Thanks for the video I have that saw and it is in my opinion better than the corded Festool which I've used every day for a long time. If you don't have the hundred and 18 inch track get it.
Much obliged for the refresher tour of the tracksaw. I especially appreciate the look inside as I have both the Corded and battery versions. Annoyingly, the dust port for the battery version is a different diameter to the Corded iteration. I am now thinking I could swap the ports, enabling me to continue using the Triton dust bag - excellent btw - without an adapter.
It baffles me how track saws are all built right blade. When it comes to circ saws, it's usually preference based, with a few "safety" aspects. With a track saw, however, it should be designed as : Blade Left for righties. Blade Right for lefties. As a former lefty, I loved it. It was the one tool where a lefty could look at a righty, and stick out our tongue and say "See what it's like for us?!?!?!" Hahaaa. But after a virus took my left arm leg function, I had to become a righty. And cutting straight lines (safely) became a nightmare. No table saws. Maybe a bandsaw. A jigsaw, and circ saw were my only options. Because only having a right arm, made a track saw with a right blade, pretty much impossible. So from my perspective, being on both sides of the blade, a track saw is the only circular saw where Blade location truly matters. Yet there is no such thing as a Blade Left Track Saw. (Yeah, the one Kreg makes is a steaming pile of 💩. But it's to be expected, since Kreg isn't a brand I'd associate with precision and quality. They have great innovation, but poor execution. If they upped their quality, and spent more on manufacturing their products (and a higher retail price obviously) they could be great.) So, next time any righties out there using a track saw have to drench, lean, cross arms, climb upon your workpiece... imaging if it were a Blade Left. And how you could rip a sheet of plywood with one arm, simply by walking beside it and holding the saw. (For naysayers: I get it. "I've never had an issue before." Well, that's just because you have nothing to compare it to. Festool made a track saw, and everyone just started copying it. Then copying copies. And so on. .... "Well if you lay your track down right, and the splinter guard is on your line, then it doesn't matter where the blade side is." Sure, but then your guide rail, and saw are resting on your cutoff. .... "But I've always used right blades." Well, that's great. But if you always eat cold bologna sandwiches, then you'll never know how good a fresh porterhouse can taste. Lol. ) If you can find a lefty using a track saw, watch them. They're using a Blade Right, and it's effortless. They have it made with track saws. Leo over at Hand-I-Craft is a 1 armed woodworker like myself. But he has only his left hand. Check out his use of a (Festool) Track Saw, and how easy his cuts are. Makita, Bosch, Dewalt, and even Festool, are missing out on selling thousands and thousands if saws, simply because they refuse to think about blade location as more than just personal preference. Also, make track saws 7-¼" people!!! 45° cuts shouldn't require us to bury the entire blade.
John Evenson it’s great. After a few months it’s still doing great. I have a big cabinet job coming up thats going to really push it. I’m confident it’ll do fine
thank for the in depth walk through on the saw. Getting back into serious wood working and this will be perfect for many projects and breaking down sheet material as well. I really like the Ruger parts tray, well represented.
Another sucker bought into makitas battery program. Hate to be negative , they dont even advertise they have a corded version on there home website, just found that odd. Love my corded version.
Great video used my Makita track saw for the first time tried to cut a resin table and ended up clipping the rail. Do you know how to move the blade over a bit more? Also, is the track still usable after the rail is been hit by the blade?
Hi there! Fantastic video. Do you think you could do a similar video for a WEN track saw? It's probably the cheapest track saw out there at $100, but it has a very attractive price point.
Have you had any problems with saw sticking to track. I bought 2 55” tracks adjusted slop out for one track but half way down the second track my saw sticks and I can’t push it. If I adjust the knobs so it slides freely it has a significant amount of play along the rest of the track. It sticks in 2 separate places but slides smooth the rest of the way. Any idea what’s causing it? Everything is same thickness down the length of both tracks. I measured with digital calipers. This is my first track saw.
That is an annoyance. I've seen some 3D prints on Etsy that crate an adjustment to account for the track but I haven't bought one yet. I just add 5 or 6 mm to my material thickness and it works out
I've heard several you-tubers say this saw will work on the Festool track. Good to know. I have a different question. Will the Matchfit dovetail clamps work on this track, or on the Festool track?
@@DaileyWoodworks I surely hope they'll work on the Makita track. (I'm about to purchase the cordless version of this saw). My neighbor owns a Festool saw and track. Right after I posted my question to you, I went to his house with a Matchfit clamp and it would NOT work.
Hello, I have one of these plunge saws but it's the mains version. When I return it to vertical cut - right up to the stops on the base plate - it seems to cut inverted by a degree or two, I have to manually guess dead vertical. Do you have any ideas what's adrift please?. I have cleaned everything out so dust build up is not the problem, FYI, I have recently changed the blade.
How did you get on? Ive just got one myself and its not cutting 90! Ive tried adjusting the screws on the bottom of the plate but they don't seem to be doing much!
@@tmitch45 I haven't gotten around to it. I'm using my other track saw. Someone suggested that I backoff both set screws to where they both just barely touch the base plate and then adjust both together. If I move one a quarter turn I move the other a quarter turn. I don't see how else it could be done.
Absolutely. I use it for finish cuts all the time. The TSO products parallel guides make cutting a kitchen super fast. I routinely edge-joint 8/4 slabs with it
@@DaileyWoodworks Oh. Get over yourself! With a boasting title which says " Makita Track Saw Full Overview - Every Switch, Lever, and Thing-a-ma-bob". You should have covered that important feature.
Idk know if you’re really that angry with your sad pathetic life that you have to come after me or you’re my first troll? If the first...sorry I guess. If the second, ‘sup bro?
@@DaileyWoodworks Suck it up. You made an incomplete review of a PLUNGE SAW, omitting a feature it was intended to perform. You don't take criticism well. Perhaps you should find another hobby. Your sophistry is typically unfounded.
I’m going with angry troll. Did you know that just because you have an opinion doesn’t mean you have to share it? Thanks for the comments. Engagement really helps my stats, my hobby, and helps me buy more tools to make bad reviews on. I just posted a review today on my new festool TID18 you should go tell me what I did wrong there too. Pump those numbers up Show. Me. The. Money.
