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Stuart posted this today…..
http://toolguyd.com/skilsaw-worm-drive-table-saw/
Skilsaw has been rebranded as pro level from Skil and I have the 7-1/4″
I have this one…..
http://www.skilsaw.com/product-spt67wm22/
And it is a PHENOMENAL saw. I can only imagine that this new table saw they are introducing is going to give the competition a serious run for their money. Really cool stuff coming our way to be sure!
As somebody starting to look at the purchase of a table saw, this intrigues me, curious how the fence would be though.
Jimbo
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skilsaw has been around for along time and has been able to capture the brand name into most all circular saws…..like band-aid……I still call my Milwaukee fuel a skilsaw ……pass me the skilsaw………and they know what it is……
as nice as this table saw looks I’m looking for something more on the cabinet style table saw…..
No doubt Comp but for a field saw this might be the one! I’m using a Dewalt DW745 as my main stay table saw until I have the room for a dedicated cabinet saw but in the meantime the DW does the job as well as its little body can. But putting a work drive on a small saw is going to be pretty darn impressive
Skillsaw is doing a big product redesign now that they were spun off Skill. Bosch kinda bastardized Skill into a bargain brand with a few premium tools. SBD kinda did the same thing with Porter Cable they still have some Pro grade tools but now its more of a budget brand in general. Looks like a nice portable table saw though.
Forgot to say they might add a bigger saw down the road atleast a big stand version I don’t know if a Cabinet style will happen though as they are high dollar low volume items.
Looks nice…..I wonder how the fence is, that was one of the things that led me to the Dewalt DW745, it was much more robust and accurate than the others I looked at.
…is it bad that the most fascinating part of the article to me was that it’s shipping with a Diablo blade? FFS it’s about time somebody saw the light.
That said, the fence will be the make or break of this unit. Worm drive is great and all but to keep the weight down for a portable unit, they’ll shrink the motor, which limits the benefits of a really powerful saw.
I’d be really shocked if this performed better than the DWE7491 that I have. Saw is a monster…but if it can keep up and manage a decent fence like Dewalt has (the best), it’ll be good for sure.
All the new Skillsaw branded saws are shipping with Diablo blades but that’s because Bosch also owns Freud.
Jasonc wrote:
All the new Skillsaw branded saws are shipping with Diablo blades but that’s because Bosch also owns Freud.
I didn’t know that. I should have known something was up, nobody goes around making that much sense these days.
Nobody has mentioned who currently owns Skil. Bosch sold it to a Chinese company called Chervon. They claim to be a Worldwide major manufacturer of power tools so they must make a lot more than Skil. I had never heard of them before they bought Skil.DR99 wrote:
Skillsaw is doing a big product redesign now that they were spun off Skill. Bosch kinda bastardized Skill into a bargain brand with a few premium tools. SBD kinda did the same thing with Porter Cable they still have some Pro grade tools but now its more of a budget brand in general. Looks like a nice portable table saw though.
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Mycrossover wrote:
On 9/1/2018 at 12:48 PM, Mycrossover said:Nobody has mentioned who currently owns Skil. Bosch sold it to a Chinese company called Chervon. They claim to be a Worldwide major manufacturer of power tools so they must make a lot more than Skil. I had never heard of them before they bought Skil.
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Chervon’s most well known brands they own are Skil, Skilsaw, and Ego.
Do they no longer make Kobalt?