The centre of the shop · review
The most refined compact saw here: a rack-and-pinion fence that moves squarely by design, in a body small enough to carry in one hand.
The bottom line The compact saw to buy if the fence is what you care about — and the one to skip if you need to rip anything thick.
Hands-on testing pending. Nothing below is presented as our own measurement. Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgements are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
210 mm blade, 1 850 W, 65 mm maximum cut. A rip fence driven by rack and pinion, guided on both sides, with an eccentric locking lever. An AirLock-compatible extraction port. Blade, push stick and assembly tools in the box.
Two saws on this page have solved the fence problem, and they have solved it in different ways. Metabo clamps at both rails. DeWalt drives both ends of the fence off a single rack-and-pinion, so moving it keeps it parallel by mechanism rather than by careful locking.
In practice the rack-and-pinion is the more pleasant of the two to use — you turn a knob and read the scale, rather than nudge, lock and check — and it is the reason this saw is worth its premium over the compact machines it competes with. What it cannot do is make a 210 mm blade cut deeper.
65 mm. That handles sheet material, trim, and softwood laid flat. It does not handle 75 mm stock on edge, and it will not rip a thick hardwood blank. This is the trade you accept for a saw that weighs what this one weighs, and it is sharper here than on any other machine on this page.
An AirLock port is a twist-lock rather than a push-fit. Every push-fit hose eventually vibrates off, and the failure is silent: the extractor keeps running, the noise is unchanged, and the fine dust that the whole system exists to capture goes into the room instead. A connector that latches removes an entire category of quiet failure.
Resolves on the German, British, French, Italian and Spanish stores under one reference and one EAN. Not listed on amazon.com under this reference — American readers are sent to a local search.
| Blade diameter | 210 mm |
|---|---|
| Maximum cut | 65 mm |
| Motor | 1 850 W |
| Rip fence | Rack-and-pinion, guided on both sides, eccentric lock |
| Extraction | AirLock-compatible port |
| Supplied with | Blade, push stick, assembly tools |
| Amazon reference | B07YYTDK1D (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 5035048723371 |
They solve the same problem differently. Double clamping locks a fence at both ends after you position it; rack-and-pinion drives both ends together so it never leaves parallel in the first place. Both are far better than a fence that clamps at the near rail only, which is what you get on most saws under this price.
A twist-lock connector between the machine port and the extraction hose. It matters more than it sounds: a friction-fit hose works its way off under vibration, usually without being noticed, and an extractor running with the hose on the floor collects nothing at all while sounding exactly as though it is working.
18 V · 70 mm cut height · 216 mm blade · bare tool
A cordless table saw with a 70 mm cut height and no battery in the box — and a French price nearly €300 below the British one.
Best for: Site work and small shops already holding Bosch Professional 18 V batteries
≈ £820 / 620 €
254 mm · sliding carriage · 2 000 W
The only saw here with a sliding carriage built in — which is what turns a table saw into something that crosscuts panels accurately.
Best for: A workshop that regularly breaks down and squares sheet goods
≈ 635 €
216 mm · 1 600 W · 30 mm bore
Bosch’s compact site saw: lighter than the class, sensibly guarded, and built around a blade small enough to limit what it can rip.
Best for: Trim, second-fix and repeated small rips, where the saw has to move between rooms or sites
≈ $845 / 340 €
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.
