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jig, circular & mitre

eye iz stihl well confused

circular=hitachi

pleased with my dewalt chop saw. it’s the smallest in the range but can be easily carted around.

Budjit?

Budjit?

maxin out at 650ish inglish dollars

domestic home use (new home purchase with projects in pipeline), to last a fair while so i can sever my fingers when i’m old ad blind

Makita for Jigsaws everytime, this dewalt mitre saw is rock-solid and really easy to set up square and stay square .

Trade or DIY?

Ie, how much use will they get?

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Bosch for jigsaws, all the rest are silly toys
Dewalt for mitre saws, should be able to pick up a bullet proof dw705 (used) for under a ton
Hilti or Hitachi for circular saws, but I swear by my dw364 (us import)

Anyhoo…

Circular, any decent make really. I have a hitachi which is great. But a Makita will also be good.

Jigsaw: Makita or Blue Bosch (135 BCE FTW…easy lever for angled cut).

Chopsaw: Sliding every time. The small DeWalt one is great but there’s a Hitachi for around the same money which is catching my eye. It has the advantage of having twin slides rather than one.

Makita sliding

The B AND Q own brand are quite good as cross cut saws.makita for drils , avoid Dewalt, theyre over priced, and makita or Bosch for Jigsaws.

Screwfix or Toolstation for cheaper prices and usually instant replacement as opposed to sending it back somewher to get them fixed.

i’d recommend makita over dewalt…. dewalt chop/mitre saws feel plasticy in comparison to makita. also their batteries, altough ok, aren’t a match on makita’s…

i’ve got a Metabo choppy. a thing of beauty. big bugger though. i paid 450 and that was under trade price. probably a bit pricey though, if you’ve only got 650 notes for the lot.

i had a makita skill saw, but some ***** stole when i was doing a job in Tilbury. nice bit of kit.

as for a jigsaw…. again i’d say makita. at work i have a festtool jigsaw, but again, it’s pricey…

The B AND Q own brand are quite good as cross cut saws

The trouble with their own brand stuff is changing all the time – new ‘brands’ and new models appearing and disappearing week in week out. Sometime its a gem – I paid £60 for a little sliding cross-cut saw in a sale (reduced from £120) and its was the best I’ve ever had and lasted me years, but everything of theirs I’ve seen since has been garbage by comparison

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Only go for sliding if you need it, either because you’ll cut boards that big or because you need to make trenching cuts. You pay much more for quality or get much less quality for your money with a slider. Go somewhere where you can actually get your hands on the machine – drop the blade into the slot and wiggle the handle, with a good saw there should hardly be any movement side to side but I’ve found even with £600 – £700 sliders the blade can slop about all over the place, both moving side to side and twisting. Its kind of the whole point of the machine that it shouldn’t do that. Apart from the little B&Q one above I’ve never laid hands on a sliding mitre saw that I’d be happy to spend my money on.

i use to work in plant hire and makita lasted the longest. 🙂

I have a Makita circular saw in excellent barely used condition that is looking for a new home. Mail me for more details if interested.

my kit amongst other stuff

http://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-dw717xps-gb-revolutionary-xps-system-250mm-sliding-mitre-saw-240v/92093

http://www.screwfix.com/p/bosch-gst135-bce-720w-jigsaw-240v/39071

http://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-dc330n-18v-jigsaw-bare/30557

http://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-dws520k-gb-plunge-saw-240v/56537

http://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-dcs391l2-gb-165mm-premium-circular-saw-18v/86610
(older version)

http://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-d23700-gb-240v-235mm-circular-saw-240v/32640

I didn’t pay anything like those prices though. I also wouldn’t change anything about any of them