Festool TS55 EQB

[Gary]

I have a Festool Plunge saw and when using it this morning I discovered that it is probably time for a new blade.

I know that this will probably start a debate that perhaps I should have bought a "Stores own brand" and if I buy Festool I can easily afford the consumables.

How ever my question is this, what is the best replacement blade for this saw?

I could buy a Festool replacement but how good really are their blades? I feel alot of the performance is down to the guides.

I am perhaps looking at replacement blades from Freud.

What is the forums opinion of these blades?

Gary

 

[Mike.C]

Gary,

I could buy a Festool replacement but how good really are their blades? I feel alot of the performance is down to the guides.

Personally I think a great deal of any saws performance is down to the blade. It does matter how good a saw you have, if the blade is no good the saw will not preform to the best of it's ability.

As for what blade to go for, I always use a Festool in mine because it cuts very good, but that does not mean that you cannot get a better one, it's just that I have not tried any others.

Cheers

Mike

 

[tnimble]

I don't know if Festool has a blade sharpening service byt that might be one of the ways to do it.

The festool blades must be already good quality blades. But there must be better ones out there. I do'nt know if freud is better than the festool blades since I have no festool blades to begin with.

 

[Neil]

I could buy a Festool replacement but how good really are their blades? I feel alot of the performance is down to the guides

Tony came to a different conclusion and decided it was the blade that was the key factor.

Cheers,
Neil

 

[Keith Smith]

Gary it depends what you want to use the saw for.

I magine you have the blade supplied with the saw, the 48 tooth "fine" blade. This costs about £44 so it is well worth having it sharpened and for many uses it's the best blade for the saw.

There are better blades if you want to rip timber or cut a lot of laminate, I've just been using some Freud ones in the Festool and as far a quality of the blade is concerned there is little between the Freud and Festool. The quality of the cut varies though because the Festool fine blade has a very shallow tooth angle making it more suited to cutting man made materials.

One thing to watch, if you swap the blade on the Festool it can take a different cut out of the rubber anti splinter guard which can make it ineffective; the only option then is to re-fit or replace it, a real pain.

Keith