Fast & Furyish 5 - the movie.
My saw came a day late, either because of the Covid issue, or the courier slept in the first day it should have arrived ;) and when it turned up and upon assembling it, it was apparent it had been dropped as the table bed was dented and kinked. Fair play to the suppliers though as they said they'd either replace it, or send me a replacement bed. The latter was ordered to save me having to disassemble it, repackage it and assemble the new one all over again. The bed took a few days to arrive and I swapped it over today. No great shakes as there's only about 10 bolts to fit it on.
The rip fence was round the other way to the way it normally is, so that was swapped around.
The sliding mitre guide is a little bit loose in its channel for my liking and could me made to fit more snuggly. Literally 1mm is all it needs, but as it is there is a bit of play which means it could change the angle when the blade touches it, by 1/2 a degree. Fussy old me.
When the thing first starts, it does quite viciously but you get used to it. It's certainly not a slow-start motor for sure, but it's pretty powerfully for the wattage, plus it's quite quite too.
A couple of the bolt threads stripped too easily I found, so were replaced by my own better ones if they chewed up by me tightening things too much, plus I added my own washers to spread the load where I thought the bolts may damage the plastic, on the body of the saw for example. Being plastic bodied, means this saw is pretty light for me, so I can carry it around quite easily.
Once the blade angles were all set correctly (they'll most likely be out a touch when it arrives), it cuts nicely and with little vibration. One tip - set the saw blade so it's only about 1/2" above the wood you're cutting. Too much and you can get a lot more vibration and the wood "drifts" away from the fence and is a lot harder to push. Whether or not these saws are all like this I don't know, as this is my first small table saw purchase, or it could be specific to this particular blade (I've used £5k saws in the past so I'm not a total newbie).
Talking about the blade, it cut through 10ft lengths of 65mm thick softwood with no issues, and I even cut through a fishplate either side on one (old roofing rafters), just to check the blade could cope with metal as advertised (sometimes you just don't trust the blurb). This is the main reason I went for the Evolution saw, as I do use up old wood that may have screws or nails broken off inside.
So, in all, I've given it a 4 out of 5 stars as I'm pretty happy with it overall, bit there are just a couple of things that I'd personally change for the better. If you're after something that delivers absolute precision, time after time, then maybe you'll have to spend 2 or 3 times this saw's cost to get what you're after. For £150-ish, I feel it was good value for money and it saves me trying awkwardly to rip down lengths of wood with a normal hand-held circular saw!
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