This Track Saw Accessory Might Replace Your Table Saw | Deep Dive 

the author does like to from scratch, shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. ru-vid.comUgkxD-QRFQz730FJEh4f9BYSf-nkIMIC9hL_ as another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us dont have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we wont be able to practice the full stack project, is still great.

I admire this man's passion, no criticism. I've worked several decades in carpentry and furniture building; used all the expensive machinery . . . then decided one day - no more. I have two 18" tool bags that carry all my equipment including a drill, circular saw and router; if it doesn't fit in those bags, then I don't use it. I have a knockdown bench that house's my circular saw in a table saw format. I have a 4 foot and 8 foot straightedge piece of plywood for guiding my saw. It all fits comfortably in my vehicle. I've never fallen short of tool necessities, and have always completed the job to a very high standard. The real challenge, but also the real pleasure, of woodworking is doing the job well without $20,000 worth of tools.

Now I know I need table saw! Thanks!

The thing to remember is the real value of this system - even with the setup time - is for those of us that have a limited space that cannot accommodate a big table saw and outfield. I'm working in one bay of a 3 car garage. I often have to set up and take down each day and sometimes even each step. I don't do remote work like at a job site but I can see a similar value for transport etc. I'd most certainly have the big table saw and outfeeds as a preferred choice but if that is not possible, this is excellent!

Your videos are so well done! Thanks for the inspiration. Here I was, just looking for reviews on adjustable T-squares, but now I'm sorely tempted to take out a loan and build the woodshop I've always wanted.

Hi there, I think for a hobbyist this is a good way to go. For someone who doesn’t have a table saw and no room for one it fits the bill. An excellent honest presentation with all the features shown and no effort to hide the setup time. Your company produces well made (expensive) tools and I enjoy watching your videos. Best Regards Fred Thomas

Whew! The system is complicated and has too many nicy nacky parts to assemble and adjust, The concept is good but needs some user-friendly engineering.

I can't lift a sheet of 3/4" ply, not to mention maneuver it on a table saw. This tool worked great for me to break down sheets of plywood with minimum waste, especially the 8'-long pieces. I agree that the cost of buying this tool is high, but after building a few built-ins, it suddenly doesn't seem so bad compared to the cost of hiring someone. I also used this tool to cut dadoes using a makita router guide + track. Once it's all set up and calibrated, the cuts are fast and precise, as long as the stops are tightened properly. Woodpeckers, you are welcome for the free ad.

And here, I've been using a simple straight edge, two clamps, and running my saw along the edge. I've been wasting 3 minutes of my time when I could have spent $400 to $500, and 20 minutes. Oh, I'm such a fool.

I was curious so I watched, now I'm pleased to see that there's absolutely no end to the inconvenience. Remember that name WOODPECKER'S ! ! !

I have an older track guide with built in clamps that has a base that attaches to a circular saw. I just dedicated a circular saw to this set up so that the base is always attached to that saw and just use it with the track. It does as good a job as a table saw with sheet goods and I would be finished with all the cuts you're looking to make here long before you finished setting that up.

good god I could just wait for my toddler to grow up and help me with that sheet on my table saw.

I initially owned the Festool parallel guides. When Woodpeckers first came up with their product (and you didn't need a 2nd mortgage to buy a sheet of plywood), it seemed like something worthwhile. Never mind the metric/imperial difference, the Woodpecker has a far more precise method of setting the width of cut. The fact that it knocks down and stores in a systainer means I no longer need to devote precious wall space to hanging the Festool. I have never regretted getting the Woodpecker.

Under Dunn (RU-vid) made a track saw guide and a set of these about a year ago for about an eighth of the price. I built them using his plans and they work very well. The guide rails just clamp to the saw guide. Once calibrate initially it remains calibrated and is quick to set up and use.

You're a natural instructor! That was great, thanks very much! 👍

Great demo, great tool. My Festool track saw is the most useful piece of equipment I ever bought!

This kit is more an exercise in engineering than an alternative solution to a problem, i.e. a need for a square cut. Overall, complexity for complexity's sake.

I really enjoyed your presentation. Very professional and concise. Thank you.

This is pretty slick. Too bad it costs $600. I made a 4' and an 8' "track saw" out of scrap plywood that works great. The only cost to me was buying the non-skid tape that I put on the underside so I don't have to clamp it down. Works like a charm and cost me 1/4 of what a track saw does INCLUDING a new Dewalt circular saw.

Great content. Very thorough and well explained. Thanks much.

"Honey that was a good breakfast, see you after dinner, I'm going out in the shop to make 1 cut on a sheet of plywood."

Great session!!! Thank you!

Wow that is awesome. I had seen these and they did not seem like I needed them. But you just showed me that I was wrong. They are incredible. Thank you Jeff. I will be buying the set soon. Woodpeckers are me place to get the best.

Your the best, Jeff. wonderful teacher

Great video, learned a lot I did not yet know about my parallel guide.

For over 40 years I have managed to scrape by with a straight edge, a couple of clamps and a decent square. Can't believe that this is actually a thing and that people actually buy them! Way to over engineer something lol.

This is the best explanation I have seen on how to use a system. There is a lot of moving parts but the explanation is so clear that I already learned how to use it after watching this video.

I’ve been using mine for about a year and love it. I do accurate narrow rip cuts on maple, etc as well as plywood. This capability helped me avoid buying and making room for a table saw. I keep a couple of lengths pre-assembled in the top drawer of my husky for quick access.

The only problem I see with that is that no one can afford a sheet of plywood anymore.

More expensive than my DeWalt table saw, which of course comes with a saw...

I like that short edge cut. Could have used that a couple thousand time by now.

I have it an love it, especially because it can tuck away in a systainer. Yes setup does take a few minutes. One thing though, calibrating it with the method shown I kept getting out by 1mm from one end of 8ft to the other. I ended up marking for my cut on the sheet material, got the track set splitting the line on both ends, the. Set the scale on each to the measurement I set the track to, loosened the screws that connect it to the track, get the stops pushed against the stock, and held it in place and tightened the screws to the track; I found this way more accurate. I have the metric version, and the calibration triangles do not point to an actual mark on the scale

As a hobbyist I'll never be able to afford any of these, especially the $1K track saw, but I do enjoy watching these videos.

"Now, this was really easy ..." - - - Yep. Really easy if you have all day to make a single cut.

i love it keep up the quality for us quality wood workers

Looks great!! Just need a track saw now.. Thanks

I bought this when it first came out. I wish this Deep Dive would have came at the same time. This system is GREAT!! Very accurate and makes repeatable cuts to perfection. GREAT tool as is ALL the Woodpeckers products. You get what you pay for.

I'd be prepared to pay as much as $75 for that.

Great Video, shout out from the UK.

I was sitting here thinking, “I love those Woodpecker products, but why are they so darn expensive?” and I thought I better not post. Because every time I post about something being so expensive, I get flamed. Then I saw all the posts this already had about this being too expensive. LOL

11:39 no one is taking this to a job site.

Try taking a 1/16 off an 8’ boards with that. Try cutting finger joints with that, try raising a panel with it. Definitely not even close to a replacement for a table saw.

Saw the thumbnail....clicked just for the comments. They did not disappoint :)

How to make money in woodworking: sell overpriced jigs to woodworkers.

this video reminds me how lucky i am to live in a place that uses the metric system for measurements...

Super handy. Just don’t have money to spend $479 on a tool that helps out my $400 Makita track saw.

Nice professional video. Enjoyable to watch.

Awesome I just learned something new. Thank you

I always wondered what they did with the vast mountain range of components in the retired space shuttles. They made a single parallel guide system.

I can understand the advantages of track saws, but, it seems crazy to me to have to assemble all that (on any job site) when all you have to do is cut them on a table saw. A 5x5 is not That awkward to handle or square up ;-/ I see so many new gadgets for people to spend their money on when really they can do without all this fringe stuff. Imho.

I built a new multi purpose shop bench with my table saw I was watching him set up the pecker!! Actually I really like this system but could never afford it. I use my mdf home made track saw setup and it works pretty slick.

Excellent piece of kit!

$479 for just this alignment track system then you need to buy a tracksaw, am I only one who thinks this expensive to rip a sheet of plywood?

I'm surprised there were no lasers or trigonometry involved in setting this up. Good commercial for just getting a dang table saw.

Very good instructions done well.

As much as I love my Festool trac saw I think I will stick to my table saw for this

Over complicated and expensive... 10 minutes 26 seconds in, "I'm going to make my first cut."...WOW

The great idea of a track saw is the nonslip sliding rail. Just line up the ends and cut. Nice system, but I'll stick to the table on wheels I roll up to my cabinet saw and get a perfect cut with no tear-out. From pick-up truck to cabinet saw. Piece of cake. In the field nonslip sliding rail is very useful.

Good job!! Thanks for sharing.

Any plans to make one to fit the Kreg Track Saw?

with the cost of the trac saw and the guide system, who can afford a table saw?

This guys shop is nicer than my living room.

With this product you have just set a new definition for OVER Complicated...Well done guys...!!! Common...you have such great product range...do not overcomplicate things...

27 3/32 wide, how do you accurately set that on a scale that doesn't show 32nd's? Just "eyeball" it I guess? I really wish you guys would do some cross-licensing with Incra and add incremental indexing to your measuring devices, then you would truly be accurate, exact and repeatable.

"Anything you can do with a table saw you can do with a track saw". What track saw has a dado stack?

If I spend the time it would take to set this thing up by mowing my neighbors lawns, I could buy myself a vertical panel saw... Thanks for making this video and possibly saving me from buyers regret.

Love it! Engineering is great and woodpecker has got it! HOWEVER! we can make these cuts, yes even with 5x5 bb, in about 30 seconds on the table saw. tracks saws are great in some situations but just too much setup time to be my goto, especially for parts with concealed edges, like inset cabinet panels. and that brings me to another point....with a 3/8-1/2" or so blind panel rabbet, squaring the plywood is SO not necessary. we're making a parallel rip to fence, track, shoe (whatever you're using). If squaring up ALL the parts is necessary for you, like it can be for a engineering snob like me,......just throw the sled down on the table saw and make your cross-cuts. Anyway, i got tons more critique to give on this one for sure but....hell, why keep giving my energy away to this when i got a bunch of wood calling me in the shop behind my desk.......?

I have already ordered mine! Super excited to get it!

Woodpecker has some nice tools, but boy do you have to drop some money for them. With that said, I might have to get these.

I recently ripped 4x8 sheets on my table saw by myself. It was a bit of a challenge but doable. And I was done before this contraption could be put together.

I just started seeing woodpecker brand in the last few days. Went from catching my eye to look out for to this. I mean wow. What a brilliant tool and this guy just makes it look soo slick. I see soo many that just do not demonstrate the product well. Leaving you wondering about so much. Not to mention the vacuum saw really lets one know that this is a much higher degree of tool. What I really love is how it looks really overcomplicated and a bunch of parts at first, yet its fast, simple, easy and accurate with a good case which is always a must. I'm deffinately putting these 2 tools on my Amazon list. Thank goodness I saw this before I started looking into table saws. For an unheard of name brand it impresses from the start.

I don't really need one of these, but I want it anyway just for the assembly process.

Assembling this every time is a deal breaker. I’m buying a new table saw.

Fantastic work on this video! Man, I’d love to have that!

wow i need this for my light signs

For a company that's mission is extreme accuracy and unparalleled build quality, this leaves an enormous amount of room for error. When judging where the slides stop on the ruler a rounded edge with no defined edge, arrow, etc leaves each different user with their own separate measurement. Plus, as already stated, the setup time is ummmmm. 3 hours later....

So every time I want to rip plywood I add 15-20min just to set this thing up when I could have ripped maybe 20 ply wood on a table saw in that same time?

Thank you for mentioning Makita compatibility by name.

I'd have finished all the cuts on my table saw before this guy sets up for his first cut.

The most complicated way of cutting a sheet 😂

Pretty flashy wiz-bang, but not for me. I'm in my 70s and can still manage to rip a sheet of 3/4-inch MDF on my table saw. For a cross cut, I made a 54-inch jig from two rips of plywood. I clamp it at my marks and run my regular circular saw along the jig. Fast, accurate, inexpensive.

Yah and i have time to set this up.

Ive been wanting a system for track saw but can not make up my mind!!! Love the red and Made in USA!!

Couple of days that and he will wish for a tablesaw.

500 $ for this? I can make something similar myself for a fraction of that! I'd say 50 $ with aluminum and 20 $ with wood and even super nice brass screws and all the bells and whistles.

I like it, and looks good. But just to many pieces to assemble be interesting to know what the tolerance stack and repeatability is on the assembly.

My delta saw cost me $600 with tax and made all those cuts before you were halfway done assembling this menagerie of aluminum pieces

Am I missing something? I’d like to see this thing turn a 2x4 into a 1x4. There are also a number of operations that can be performed on a table saw I can’t see happening on a track saw.

I have multiple tracksaws and rails .. along with all of the Festool accessories that help them to be a true system. I'm quite adept with them but I ONLY see tracksaws as an alternative to the need for a panel saw. A table saw, a bandsaw, etc are still important shop tools.

That's a cool system.

by the time you're done setting it up and squaring it, i've ripped and crossed cut several boards perfectly, not to mention the high cost of this item. Good quality video though.

Got one similar to it, had it for thirty years. Mine's nine feet long when combined, 54" long each. I use it to bust down plywood sheets into chunks I can trim to size with my table saw. The suggestion that it might replace my table saw(s) is frivolous, senseless, and delusional. Pretty obviously.

Will this work with the Kreg track? And if not, any plans for future versions?

Nice, whikt I use a track saw regularly, I'll still keep my tablesaw thanks. Way too much messing around with this system.

Another great video Jeff. I bit the bullet and placed my order. By the way, what is the screwdriver you used with the spring on the shaft?

Idk I buy tools to make the job faster not take twice as long 🤣. Cool concept though.

I would just clamp a straight edge and push my saw along it.

i build a similar system after seeing it a yearish ago on the woodworking youtube channel under dunn works good but I rarely use it

Super outstanding! Semper Fi

Way better than festool parallel guides