Festool parallel guides - making repetitive cuts with a track saw
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2013
- The Parallel guide system from Festool is perfect for cutting sheet goods down to precise size, saving time, energy and material waste. The Parallel guide set is the perfect complement for the Festool TS 55 or TS 75 Plunge cut saws.
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For those of you who are scratching your head and saying "Dude, just use a table saw", you are right. With that being said, Festool, as a company, builds products with a belief that craftsman should be able to get pristine quality out in the field as well as in the shop. I love my 5HP Sawstop Industrial table saw, but the thing isn't exactly portable. My portable table saws (Bosch 4100) are great for what they are, but out in the field you don't really have infeed/outfeed tables reliable enough cut full sheets on. These parallel guides are designed to essentially turn the TS55 into a rip fence....but with this "rip fence" you don't have to worry about the long, wide, awkward piece of plywood pulling away from the fence slightly as you try and feed it through.
On my most recent job I have had to rip dozens of 12 ft PVC sheets of 3/4" material. The cut edges must be flawless. The combination of the anti-static Festool CT36 vacuum, TS55 track saw, two linked guide tracks, and the parallel guides seen here I was able to rip them down ridiculously quickly, even cutting two sheets at once. Since the saw is variable speed, I was able to slow the rotation down to the point it wasn't melting the PVC. Without these tools, the job would have been AWFUL, as the electrically charged PVC particles cling to everything. Without the supreme Festool dust collection on their TS55 and all 3 routers we used on this job, the client's front yard would have looked like a winter wonderland of PVC that will never degrade.
With that all being said, it would have been a much better demonstration to rip, say, a sheet of 3/4" plywood full length into 8" (or whatever) strips, so people can truly see how fast and accurate it truly is. Anyone who has ever built frameless (eurostyle) cabinets knows the importance of having truly square parts to begin with, and Festool makes it easier than ever.
Generally, I agree; Isn’t a table saw an easier tool to use to make cuts like this? Sure it is. But for a guy in a single car garage with one outlet to work from; a table saw isn’t really an option. Also, table saws eat fingers, and hands. TS 55’s don’t. I’m about $800 into my TS 55, guid rails and parallel guides; and have no regrets. No table saw in the future for me.
I second this. Living in a normal home without space to setup a shop this system is perfect. When I need to do some woodworking I just bring out my box with the saw and rail and do what I need to do in my back yard, then I put it all back in a closed. I don't have this strip guide extra, but maybe I should. It takes some time to clamp down pieces and getting them equal with the guide.
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Absolutely Festool... AWESOME!!!!!
Oh and for now I have these ruler stops I bought for measuring so both side are the same but you still have to put the fence to the line mark and hope the plastic strip is not too worn. What I have been doing I mark a square line on sheet, set the ruler stop to size and mark end of ruler. Do that on both sides. Now with the fence guide (which I have not yet got) all this will not be necessary.
That is a good video. I like how you set up for parallel cutting. So fast and accurate.
I have a long fence to cut down sheet goods. The paralel guide is next on my list. Thankyou for showing how to calibrate. It is so useful to have a reference as a tradesperson to learn hands on opposed to reading instructions. I have been succesfull cutting parallels by measuring but not happy when Im out by .5 to 1 mm because depending which side you cut after the parallel cut maybe just a fraction out of square on one side. watching your video is like therapy. Well done.
You were saying something about compensation for a blade thickness, but when you calibrating the set and adjusting ruler stop to 10 mm, you are getting those 10mm with the cut, at least in my case......
What should I compensate for???
I calibrated it from the outer edge of the blade already!
Once Festool , always Festool!
Can you use these guides on other tracks?
Unfortunately the audio made this too difficult to watch.
This needs to go out to 25 inches. I own it. It is always not enough and I use ones I make on the fly for like 23.5 inch cabinet depth out of scrap wood, negating the need for it.
a panel saw is the way to go .
I would say it looks a bit too long winded
Alan Welsh
If only this Festool demo video was as well thought out and presented as their tools.Festool, this is really one of the worst demo videos I have ever seen, this convinved me I didn't need or wouldn't be able to get parallel guides setup properly.
have you not bothered to see their much more recent videos? This is 8 years old
@@AaronGeller I said this video specifically, not their others, this video in particular kept me from
Buying the parallel guides.
@@BillNicholsTV did you check out their short and simple videos on this?
its take too much time just for cut a piece of wood, not good
Edel Awnings he was showing how to calibrate the device, something that has to be done rarely.
Its not a piece of wood its a sheet of ply. yes you can cut a piece of wood quicker with a chain saw. stick to that.
I cant think of anyway you could cut a sheet of ply into say 4 strips, down the length, all EXACTLY the same width.
and achievable in theory within a 3m shed.
It is the only means available for many people to cut a 4x8 sheet. A table saw that can do that as accurately would cost about $10000.
@@SingleTrack66
It is the fault of the video that does not convey the true usefulness of the accessory. Seen in this way, it would seem that it takes half an hour to make a cut for a second
This video was recorded in 1947 by the quality of it.
Really bad sales pitch for someone who is looking to buy these!
This is a classical example of someone telling me EVERYTHING that he knows when he SHOULD be telling me what I NEED to know. There is a big difference. I have NO problem with the premise of the machine (cutting precision width boards) but the concept is easily understood if he would just DEMONSTRATE the function and leave all the minutia for the instruction booklet. This video could be just as effective at about 3 minutes total. Also, I WISH these 'professional demonstrators' would write a script BEFORE they turn on the video and TRY to get some semblance of good audio going before they start. This ooohing and ahhing gets in the way of the presentation. Take a tip from professional actors, get a script and REHEARSE before you turn on the camera and leave the verbal detritus out of the presentation.
It’s free content - so I wouldn’t bother to critique something that I didn’t even pay for.
@@AaronGeller Can/t let crap go by without the truth being revealed.
Darrow...for the Prosecution
@@darrowfortheprosecution1404 that must be mentally exhausting but do as you must
Got to 8 mins and got bored shitless, wouldnt buy this for love nor money and I own lots of festool tools.
Typical overcomplicated german engineering
You spent most of the time talking what a boring thing
What you just did with that Festool track system, I could do with a tape measure, a True guide clamp rail, and my 60V dewalt cordless saw in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost, Im a professional carpenter, and don't have the time for that nonsense, no offense .
With the Festool track saw, you can do it faster than your setup. Mark the line, lay the track, and cut. About 15 seconds.
if the reason why one should buy a festool saw and the track is because ones eyes are failing ...then maybe festool makes back support for the people that have back problems...it is a dumb presentation trying to sell a tool for reasons other than what it does...just show me what it does and i will decide if it is for me or not, and as far as the metric system, it is hard to understand that german ingenuity(which is what they like us to believe) could not manufacture a product to fit their most important market, maybe we are not that important to them...YES the saw and the track cut straight and without splintering, THAT IS ALL IT DOES and if i want to do repetitive cuts i have to buy more(expensive) attatchments, if i want to get square cuts i am on my own...
For me the issue is stuff like width of pencil lead as you use it through out the job which can make the widths change over time. Your marks and lines can vary over time because of subtle causes. Also, personally, I find mm to be far more easier to understand. 314mm is a pretty exact number and easy to remember.
for me it is not what i should do to make the tool work...i am paying money for it and i think the people that manufacture it should build it in accordance to the requirements of their market...the chinese don't make us get used to the metric system...and by the way i used the metric systen until i was 21 years old...so i know it is very easy to use...but i live in usa now ...so the damn germans should come up with a saw that works with inches....
You drink Pepsi by the Liter, why can't you measure wood by the metre? :--)
Why not just learn and use both the metric AND imperial system, that’s what I do and it isn’t a problem for me.
@@erlpen2016 Or you, finally, switch to the decimal metric system :) :)
$350 to $250 depending if you get it with the short extensions, or I can buy the $35 kreg rip guide and then I don't need rails, a track saw(which I use straight ripped mdf at home), but take three times the times to use a festool saw at work... What a joke this is
Only professionals should buy Festool.. the rest of you can't handle them!
Maybe get spokesman, just a suggestion
Festool, tools you can't afford, recorded with a $3 microphone...