The sound effects later on are so funny

First video post TikTok ban. Watched every single second. No regrets

not for $1,500 I don't. I have a skill saw and $10 straight edge.

Now I see what the reason your name is on every other wood channel persons lips. I love the Lego table. But I've only seen a couple. 🎉 keep me entertained. I'm a fan for life.

If I'm a complete beginner, should I get a track saw or circular saw first?

Insomnia... But I enjoyed it!!

What a lovely Yukka video

You don’t need one more person telling you that your work is amazing…but I don’t care. Your work brings me joy and I look forward to joining you in this fantastic hobby next month when I move into a home with a shop workspace. Till then I will battle my insomnia by watching you make art.

Yucka! AND insomnia! 🙂

Yakka AND insomnia....

Track saw combined with the Dashboard PWS makes thin repeatable rips not only possible, but easy.

triple crayon

I love your triple crayon tables

Yeah I have insomnia that's why I watch your videos and they're fantastic

The crayons would be super heat sensitive areas and soft overall so easily damaged unless there is something I’m missing

It was good, your thoughts are the woodwork. Triple crayon.

@FoureyesWorkshop I only caught this video, I didn't expect to see my question answered on the clip - thanks for the response and demo! I imagined the solution you showed was a way to do it, so it's good to know I wasn't completely 'off the track'... Zero pardons for the pun! 😂

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How do you feel about getting a circular saw that can run on tracks (e.g. the Bosch GKS 18V-68 GC) as opposed to a plunge saw? I rarely need to plunge a saw. but I often need to cross cut boards freehand and I find a circular saw easier to use for this than a plunge saw.

Great video. Got my Kreg during COVID when the Festool was unavailable. Any suggestions for 3rd party blades for the Kreg? Can’t seem to find any. Thanks!

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Can you post the link to that big red square you use with the feetool track? Couldn't find it on ali

One thing that I didn't hear Chris mention was that The Festool, Makita, and Milwaukee tracksaws are all track compatible. The Kreg's track has a different, incompatible profile.

Chris, great content, dude! For what this is worth: I'm an intermediate level (??) woodworker who does both solid wood furniture and cabinetry. I own a table saw, and I wish I had a decent track saw system. Why? Answer: safety. Sometimes bringing the tool to the workpiece is safer than the piece-to-tool situation. I have gotten stupid and wrangled a 4x8 sheet through my table saw. I can be done, but that's not a risk I'll ever take again with hindsight being 20/20. I'll add that I agree - for any form of circular saw, corded is the way to go. I never want to lose battery power in the middle of a cut. Same for a router. Nine of ten times, that situation will lead to a messed-up piece. What I would/will get when $$ is available: the Makita track system, and a big ol' sheet of insulation foam.

Since the point of a woodworking hobby is to build things out of wood, it isn’t impossibly hard to build your own MFT worktop. Aluminum extrusions make a great frame giving T-slots on the edge to attach accessories like clamps and the front and back pieces of hinged track guide/system/whatever its name is the holds your track 90 degrees. Then there are CNC cut templates or fancier PARF systems to guide drilling perfectly uniform dog holes in a sheet of high quality 3/4” (19 mm )plywood or MDF (which better, but heavier). And lastly there are fences that attach to dogs in the dog holes. These fences have tapes that go in a groove on the top and stops so accurate and rapidly repeatable cuts can be made on multiple parts. Fences can go on both sides of the cut line. The left side for longer pieces and the right side for short pieces. So even if you are cutting 20 narrow strips to make an end grain cutting board, you just set up the right side fence for the thickness you want, lift the track on its hinge and slide the glued-up panel up against the stop, drop the track and cut. Repeat until all of your strips are cut. The only difficulty compared to a table saw is when the remaining panel gets too skinny and the track and fence won’t hold it straight. The solution I found is to use another board of the same thickness of the panel and use double sided tape to hold it to the panel. When cutting the glued up panel for my latest cutting board, I had just a 1/4” thick piece of scrap left taped to the extra board.

I use my tracksaw more than my table saw. With some parallel guides and the cross cut jig on my Ron Paulk bench, I can do every cut I need to make a cabinet. It's safer, more accurate, and is easy to transport. Also dust collection can be done with a vacuum instead of a full blown collector, which is great for working outside of the shop. It was well worth the investment for me.

I think a prerequisite for this video is knowing what an ACS is because I’m lost

I had an older festool track saw that was similar to the Kreg. Then I got a newer festool (FEQ) and I use it on medium hardwood with no issues. I’m not sure it’s the power but maybe the thinner kerf blade but I can cross cut large sections of 1” walnut with no issues at all.

I’m really in the market to get a track saw and I wasn’t sure if the Kreg was worth it offer the Festool, but price is an object and I need it for cutting down full sheets of plywood that I just can’t do accurately enough on the table saw with the garage space Thanks for the video.

I'm currently using a Wen track saw on a Festool MFT/3 multi-table set up. I use it mostly for big-stock and panel breakdowns, but I've done a number of finish cuts, too. I find it to be marginally more accurate than the Kreg ACS was. Some of the plastic bits on the ACS felt a little like I shouldn't trust them (the protractor, for instance), but some of that was just bias against plastics in certain applications, maybe. But between my time spent with the ACS and now on the MFTs, having a track saw in the shop and at the ready definitely has changed some of my workflows.

Triple crayon. All of your designs are great. I'm not a word worker, but i do enjoy watching. Thanks for the entertainment

Thanks for sharing.

I run a tracksaw as a contractor. It's a Wen and it's overall basic, perhaps even garbage. But I don't carry a portable table saw. For as basic as it is, I prefer that portability.

yes, I do because I don't want to use a table saw :D mft for life!

Essentially, a sliding table saw does most of what a track saw will do, but those tend to start at $5,000 quickly go over $10,000. I do prefer having a cordless track saw so I can take it lumber yard and mills to make my own cuts. I have a small job site saw because of repeatability and you can do certain things more accurately and safely with the table saw.

Only one thing wrong with that, it didn’t have a Gibson on it. 😂

The Kreg was my first major purchase when starting. It’s alright, does everything it needs to do but always wanted to upgrade. So for the ts55 2 months ago and the difference is unreal. Having thin kerf blades and the ability to buy different blades for different applications is the biggest reason I wanted to upgrade as I found myself using the Kreg more for ripping edges in hardwood. I love having a track saw and a table saw. I wouldn’t want to be without either one

I ONLY use a track saw in my shop. Yes, the repeatability and small cuts can be difficult sometimes but it takes up so little space. Once you get the hang of it, you can really do a lot with just the track saw.

A few more suggestions: 4) Review which tracks work with each saw. I believe the Festool design has been adopted by other track makers; 5) How many different types of blades are available for each saw?; 6) For large crosscuts (24”) I believe track saws are more accurate than most table saw set ups;

Nice comparison. I’ve always enjoyed your commentary and presentation style. Some suggestions: 1) Borrow an Festool MFT so you can see Festool’s full range and better compare with ACS; 2) The Festool TS 75 at least 14% more power than the Kreg; 3) It would help to know exactly which models of saws you are comparing. It looks like you have a Festool TS 55.

I have found a second hand (a good bargain) Festool track saw that looks like it’s in excellent condition but the saw is almost 10 years old. Would that be a red flag for you?

I was skeptical on whether a track saw would be worth it. I have been adding custom cabinetry to my closet, pantry and pull-out drawers in my kitchen. I bought the Milwaukee one being on that platform and it has been a life saver. 2:43 resonated with me. I have a SawStop table saw but breaking down plywood and even doing things like edge chamfers, etc. have been a little tricky at times. The track saw has been a worthy investment and has really boosted my productivity and it is something I can see many uses in the future.

So, I don't really know why I'm watching this. I will never own a track saw, and the best I'll own is a contractor style table saw and a ryobi circular saw with a Kregg rip cut thing. I'm 52 and i'm disabled (autism) and I've worked less than 10% of my adult life. I can tell you this because I've got less than 10% of the project t amount I should have in my 401(k) equivalent. I am also Australian, which means we add the 'Australia Tax' on top of exchange rate and shipping, where they just decide to jack up prices......well, because. I have applied for consideration under the Katz-Moses Woodworkers With Disabilities Fund but, because I'm outside of North America (again, Australia), they can't find suppliers to supply tools to me. So I'm left with inadequate, inaccurate tools to try and struggle by with. And, with Autism, everything you do, everybody that's spoken, every gesture made, is under scrutiny (mainly to be used against you at the very first opportunity, especially in a workplace), substandard results inthe workshop arentjust disappointments, they are complate failures. The moral to the story is this: if you can buy a track saw like these, just bloody buy one. No one is going to buy it for you. And, justice people tell me, if you can't afford one, you don't deserve one. (which to me, is people saying 'then you are defective') No matter how much I'd love a makita 18v cordless one, I'm not even going to have one of them, either. (....to match the rest of the makita tools that none is going to buy me, either.)

Thanks Chris!

Good info, Chris~! A topic that's been heavy on my mind lately. I just made my chop saw purchase and chose the Bosch Axial-Glide. Just couldn't see spending more than twice as much for the Kapex. As for a plunge saw, I've been comparing the Kreg, Makita, & Festool. The MFTs are a bit out of reach, but I plan on using whichever saw purchased with my Centipede & a TrackTube setup. Luckily, I'm not in a rush to pick one up, so plenty of time to continue my comparisons. Thanks for this one~!

Very educational, thanks Chris. Wishing you and your family a blessed holiday season filled with gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings. Peace brother

Great video. I always watch your videos and wonder, could I make that with what I own. Most of the time the answer is no. That said in appears most of your tracksaw cuts are not the finished, final edge. My Kreg track saw is ok for what it is but the saw does have movement on the track so it really doesn't suffice for making final cuts for me. On the other hand my son-in-law is fully vested in Festool stuff and that tracksaw makes a final cut quite nicely without a bunch of fiddling and hoping. Admittedly there is a huge price penalty to jump in the Festool world. Again, I always enjoy your videos.

One thing not many people pick up on is the Kreg is one of the few track saws that looks like it's designed for right handers (ie the blade on the left). Unfortunately I don't think it's available here in the UK for some reason.

To me, as a hobbyist woodworker, safety is extremely important (Christmas gifts are not worth losing fingers for). The table saw being the more dangerous tool, it's probably the one I'll get rid of first. I'm in the process of reconfiguring the workshop so that the table saw is no longer in the center, and instead I'd have some sort of MFT with the track saw always at the ready. Maybe at some point I'll find that I can ditch the table saw.. we'll see