Festool TSC 55 / TSC 55K Cordless Plunge Saw

This thing is bloody awesome – The saw on the track cuts beautiful straight clean square cuts like nothing else I've used bar a table saw and it cuts thick particle board and laminates like they are not there. I got the deal where they threw in the extra guide rail which made it better value than the teal coloured contender, so it was a no brainer, just get the best. I like… Read more

that you get a charger per battery as well. This is only my second Festool purchase after the CT 15 Midi extractor. One hit of the green cordial and you're hooked.

Good quality saw but… – The saw is great but I bought 2 1400mm tracks and they weren’t the same. When joining the tracks together and set the saw up so it was sliding nicely when I pushed saw on to second track it was to tight to use. Not happy given the price. Mikita tracks have no issue. Show details

This is a great saw and a worthy replacement for my TS55 REBQ – I love this saw. After continually tripping over the cable and vac hose on my TS55 REBQ, or trying to stop the hose catching, this new saw is brilliant. Cuts quickly (faster than the TS55 in my opinion) is well balanced and has lots of grunt (with 2 batteries). I find if I just use the bag on it and vacuum the bag out every 6 or so full width cuts… Read more

when cutting melamine sheets there is, amazingly, very little dust left behind. That takes seconds. The fine tooth blade that comes with the saw chips the melamine so you will need the laminate blade which is a triple chip.

genius invention - crazy portability with the precision cut of a table saw – genius invention - crazy portability with the precision cut of a table saw. This saw rocks, gets me out of trouble on site when it really counts. it saves driving back to the factory and recutting feature panels, as well as amazing for cutting down painted doors without marking the surface Show details

The best tool I have ever bought – I wish I purchased this track saw a long time ago average cuts have become perfect cuts with minimal set up fast accurate efficient and dust free love this saw  Show details ·  1

Can't believe I waited for so long – This track saw and extractor work so well. Perfect straight dustless cut every time. Cuts so much faster than the traditional fibro cutters and beats using a grinder due to the great suction of the extractor. Show details

Wish I'd saved my money - very expensive lesson – I bought this recently as an addition to a large amount of festool gear we already own. We already had the CT48h vacuum cleaner which cost a fortune we have the 75mm track saw we have the concrete grinders, concrete cutters, all the sanders, multi-tool and I couldn't even tell you what else off hand let's just say we spent up big at festool and… Read more

expected this to be a decent tool.

The thing I do the absolute most is trim doors with this and in most cases they are pine between 35 and 40 mm thick. Occasionally we get a nice door and that might happen to be hardwood but it's less common. We do occasionally use this to rip treated pine or standard pine in your standard 35mm and 45 mm width. Essentially this has not been bought for heavy duty use it's been bought for light jobs at homes without power.

Now here's the issue this thing is gutless like I mean really bad. When we are trying to cut pine with this at 35mm thick you have to push a millimetre at a time otherwise it will bog and stall - it's painful. When cutting this kind of material the battery life is even more woeful than its performance, the twin 5.2ah battery's will trim 3 sides of a door and at that point one of the two batteries has only one of the three charge lights remaining and the other battery has two of the three charge lights remaining. This is this is ridiculous it translates to only 5 or 6 metres of cutting before one of the batteries is down to 30 percent approximately.

In its defence if you're cutting 12-18mm chipboard or even MDF it seems to be pretty reasonable but if you're buying this to cut anything anywhere near the 55mm that claims to do I think you might be disappointed this is probably best left for cabinet makers and people cutting chipboard and not for anyone cutting actual timber.

This afternoon I've scheduled a demonstration with Makita and their track saw to investigate it's performance in comparison to this as I'm ready to sell this after just 5 or so uses for whatever I can get and move to Makita as I already own a very significant amount of their battery tools and performance has not been an issue with any of those including the 6 inch saw.

Seriously disappointed the sales guy up sold me on this instead of the Makita which I originally look at because this thing's performance is pretty poor but the price is not.

*** 2 years on and with much coarser blades as per the advice from festool I am still incredibly underwhelmed by this tool. It's fine for MDF, chipboard, anything low-density but if you're thinking about cutting pine or hardwood God forbid or anything at anywhere near it's total plunge depth forget it, this is not the tool for you.

Amazing quality and perfect cuts – It all starts when you open the Systainer, the smell of quality embraces over you as you pull the saw out and feel it fit perfectly into ones hands, you play with all the functions and settings which is all so easy to adjust. You gently slide it onto the track, careful not to scratch anything, you pull the trigger and it fires up for that first… Read more ·  1

time. The smell of a brand new tool overwhelms you and it starts slicing through the material with no effort, powerful enough that it doesn’t even know it’s cutting. Once finished running through the material it stops and you realise how much you like the saw, then you turn around and feel how smooth the cut is, and the perfection of its cut. At that very moment, I realised that I no longer liked the saw but now, I’m in love with it. Amazing quality Festool keep it up.

Plunge saw – Festool rail saws are always the bench mark. Happy as with my investment. Use it all the time. Being a battery tool it is so easy to use. Love it. The boys are always borrowing it. Show details ·  1

Perfect tool together with my jigsaw – After buying this plunge saw im use it constantly . And thanks to it i have the d handle jigsaw. I really appreciate the quality of the tools. And the most important is that the time for doing the job is quick. Show reply