Hi guys looking to buy a new table saw and searching for reviews and stumbled onto your site, all I can say is, theres going to be some reading over the next few days, and also must fight temptation and not buy anything else ...So hello everyone
Firstly, I own my own custom car interior business, and fabricate boot build, door panels, dashboards and retrim interiors as one offs. I've been making do with a cheapo SIP saw I bought years ago for £150 and to be honest for all it was its served me real well and feel its a time for an upgrade.
The machine I was origanly set out to buy was a dewalt DW744xps, as it rips 24" which is more than wide enough for what i'm going to be using it for and I'm only ever cutting 18-25mm mdf. The mean reason for looking at this item was all my power tools are dewalt and I've had no complaints, and with the rolling stand it made it extremely portable and easy to maneuver, not that I need to move it much and the workshop is big enough, so space isn't an issue.
Now the dealema starts, I went to buy the above saw and the shop also have a SIP 01332 saw as ex-display, still brand new and unused with full warrany for £100 less than the dewalt, and its such a good looking robust saw and should last me many years, far better build quality than the dewalt, and from reading on here it seems to be a good choice. The only thing that put me off is i'm in the workshop on my own most times and if I had to move it theres no chance, but I seen the post on here where someone built there own wheels for it and now its got me thinking :roll:
Considering all i'm ever going to be cutting is 18-25mm mdf is the SIP overkill or good relaible saw, or would I be better of with the compactness of the Dewalt.
Firstly, I own my own custom car interior business, and fabricate boot build, door panels, dashboards and retrim interiors as one offs. I've been making do with a cheapo SIP saw I bought years ago for £150 and to be honest for all it was its served me real well and feel its a time for an upgrade.
The machine I was origanly set out to buy was a dewalt DW744xps, as it rips 24" which is more than wide enough for what i'm going to be using it for and I'm only ever cutting 18-25mm mdf. The mean reason for looking at this item was all my power tools are dewalt and I've had no complaints, and with the rolling stand it made it extremely portable and easy to maneuver, not that I need to move it much and the workshop is big enough, so space isn't an issue.
Now the dealema starts, I went to buy the above saw and the shop also have a SIP 01332 saw as ex-display, still brand new and unused with full warrany for £100 less than the dewalt, and its such a good looking robust saw and should last me many years, far better build quality than the dewalt, and from reading on here it seems to be a good choice. The only thing that put me off is i'm in the workshop on my own most times and if I had to move it theres no chance, but I seen the post on here where someone built there own wheels for it and now its got me thinking :roll:
Considering all i'm ever going to be cutting is 18-25mm mdf is the SIP overkill or good relaible saw, or would I be better of with the compactness of the Dewalt.