United Kingdom
Cuts steel with a carbide blade, dry, without sparks — and that is the whole proposition
Evolution built its business on carbide-tipped blades that cut mild steel dry — no coolant, and none of the shower of sparks an abrasive disc produces. It works, and no other machine on this site offers it.
A tooth geometry that survives steel is not the geometry that leaves a clean shoulder on oak. The cut in timber is acceptable rather than fine.
The fix is straightforward and cheap: keep the supplied blade for metal, fit a proper wood blade for wood. The saw is then better at both jobs than any single blade makes it.
Hot metal chips into an extractor full of sawdust is a bad combination, and an extractor connected during a metal cut delivers the first straight into the second. Disconnect it for metal work and sweep up instead.
Renovation rather than furniture. If the next cut might be a stud, a length of steel angle or a plastic conduit, one machine that does all three is worth real time. If everything you cut is timber, the Scheppach cuts wider for less.
255 mm · multi-material · 1 800 W
The one saw here that will cut steel as well as wood — a genuinely useful trick, and a compromise on the wood cut that goes with it.
Best for: A mixed workshop where the same machine has to handle timber one day and steel section the next
≈ £490 / 430 €
