Best table saw for a workshop

track saw the easiest

 

Track saw gives you so much versatility, something you can't get with a table saw.

Plus,if you have router, & can get mounting plate for it, to use with the track saw guide rails,it makes a router so much more useful,like routing slots,etc in large sheet material.

 

+3 for track saw

 

Sadly no.

 

For MFC you need to pay big bucks for a saw with two blades ditto edge bander.

 

Yes.

 

Scheppach do one for about 4 grand.

 

No idea of your budget but you might be looking for something like this;

https://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-industrial-series-p305-2600-ohcg-panel-saw-104248

If it’s a big workshop tool for MFC you want, ‘panel saw’ is probably what you’re after rather than a table saw. There are cheaper ones on Axminster but they don’t have the slitting saw.

 

What about vertical panel saw,takes up less room.

 

No scoring blade.

 

Rojek PK315 on three phase is what I have. I will double check the model number though.

Its perfect for a small to medium sized workshop.

Really good quality saw.

Works well on both solid and boards.

Has a scribing blade too and a 315mm main blade

I think I paid around £3.5k for mine but they are around £5k now

As for edgebanders it depends on what size components you want to edge.

I use a Freud table top one and its fine for what I do.

 

Pretty certain that Rojek and Axminster Industrial come out of the same Czech factory.

I bought my Rojek as an end of line off Axminster. They had a few logistical problems (they sold the last Series 5 one that I had actually already paid for by mistake and so sourced a Series 7 to replace it) But when they launched their Axminster Industrial they were the same saws with different colour livery as far as I could see.

Good quality saws.

 

ok a normal table saw rather than a panel saw can with great effort give a decent cut on both sides but with everything being perfect and anti splinter precations like sacrificial boards you also need around 20ft well supported to cut a 8ft board
plunge track saw designed for the job splintering will not happen unless you do things badly like a blunt blade and damaged rubber edge
you also only need 8ft fully supported and about 1 foot front and back as the saw needs a bit off extra track length to run on for perfect cut for the same 8ft board

 

I have both and for sure the track saws are great but for the "nerve centre" of a workshop nothing beats a panel saw.

It its capacity for accurate repeat work that is its killer function.