Workshop machines, judged properly
The machine, the blade
and the dust you cannot see
Table saws, planers, band saws, routers and extraction, compared on what actually changes the result — fence accuracy, cutterhead type, airflow at the port, the right blade for the material — and priced on your own country’s Amazon.
- Categories covered
- 2
- Machines reviewed
- 18
- Accessories reviewed
- 0
Every category we cover
Pick the thing you are buying
Twelve families of machine and eleven of consumables. Each hub below compares one of them, with a plain answer to “what should I actually buy?” at the top — and the buying mistake that category invites.
How this site works
Three things we will not do
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Ranked on merit, not commission
Nothing here is ordered by what it pays. Where a €200 mitre saw does the job of a €600 one, that is what the page says — and where the cheap option is a false economy, it says that instead.
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Measured, not paraphrased
Fence travel, resaw height, quill stroke, airflow at the port, blade bore and rake — the specifications that decide the cut. Every figure names where it comes from, and a figure we could not source is left out rather than guessed.
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Priced where you live
One button, fourteen Amazon stores. We send you to the same product on your own country’s Amazon, in your own currency — and where a model is not sold there, we say so instead of linking to a page that does not exist.
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.