Woodworker's Journal 2008-32-3, страница 60

TOOL REVIEW

Craftsman took more coaxing to set correctly than the others.

I then checked each cut edge for straightness and angle accuracy with a machinist's square and protractor. Impressively, cuts taken with the Festool were near flawless. The Bosch, Hitachi, Makita and Metabo were close behind with only a hair's breath of waviness in the straightness of their cuts. The Craftsman showed waviness I would not want on delicate work.

Moving on, I evaluated the cleanness of edges and surfaces cut with the saw's provided blade. All the saws come with carbide-toothed, thin-kerf blades. In most cases, blades with more teeth tended to leave a cleaner surface: The Festool's 65-tooth, 260mm blade (about 10%" diameter) and Makita's 70-tooth blade both left extremely smooth surfaces. While the 40-tooth Craftsman and 48-tooth Metabo blades produced relatively rough cuts, the 40-tooth-

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The Bosch 4410L's miter and bevel locking controls and miter micro-angle setting knob, located up-front, are easy to access but require some fuss to use.

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Model: 4410L Price: $499 Phone: 877-267-2499 Amps: 15

Performance Score: 31 total

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have been around for nearly two decades, a common complaint among saw users is their saws don't cut perfectly straight. Therefore, I checked each saw in the test for cutting accuracy by making square, mitered and bevel cuts in soft and hard woods. In each case, I set and reset the saw's miter and bevel settings to standard angle stops (0°, 22.5°, 45°, etc.) to test for repeatable cutting accuracy. The Festool was most consistent, with dead-on angle accuracy. Most of the other saws performed angle cuts that were within 1/2 degree of exactness at all stops, although the Bosch and

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