I was browsing you tube today and came across this bit of Festool ingenuity, take a look, not too sure about the Velcro but the rest looks well thought out.

That's really cool, Colin. Thanks for posting. I got really nervous when he was pushing the pieces through with his fingers, but the set-up is deeply clever. Clearly it took a lot of thought and work.

And just how many Systainers does the guy have!?!

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I don't have as many Festools as Fred. Or Marcou's, or Brese's, or Lie-Nielsen's, or Lee Valley's, or Blue Spruce's, or Harold and Saxon's, or...

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting ideas, excellent ingenuity and creativity. I've seen many circular saws converted into small table saws, but I like what he did for the height adjustment, and how perfect the MFT3 fence converts to become a table saw fence. He's also got the whole set up and take down process down to a few minutes.

I'm still not sure I want to cut into my MFT/3 top like that. I had initially thought a few times about doing that to replace a router table, but decided against it.

I also cringed when he pushed that 2x4 through the blade. If he can make this set up, making a decent push stick should be a no-brainer.

Walter

This was posted on TOF. The gentleman who designed it is exploring making the kit and selling them. I think it's a great idea and like you guys have mentioned displays a good deal of ingenuity and creativity. I don't have an mft yet but if I did I would make this mod.

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Russell Tribby

Pure genius!

I don't have the engineering skills to do that myself, but if they go on sale, I am definitely interested.

And the beauty of the Festool system is that if you have the saw locked in the ON position and have it connected to a CT, you can control the saw power with the AUTO and OFF switch on the CT.

Yea was reading the thread on TOF The gentleman has a really well thought out setup. Everything snaps and locks with spring loaded tabs etc.

He is about to supplement his current income tremendously with this little nugget.

As i understand it he has plans for mounting a trion jig saw as well as router in a similar setup.

hello, Is it just me? We did stuff like that in the seventies with our sidewinders. Then they started making PORTABLE TABLESAWS. I know you people would not pay money for that,come on. Its not clever. Looking at the video......Thought he would be missing digets. Just my two cents. Timothy

I tend to agree with Timothy. Not that this guy hasn't done a really nice job on his conversion, it's just that, for that amount of time and money I think I would buy a plane ticket to Europe, buy myself the CMS (or do I mean Basis - I can never remember), and bring it back with me. Festool has already done that, and I bet it has safety features that this one hasn't.

I like the use of the fence, though. I was picturing making a router table on my MFT1080, and the lack of lateral adjustment on the stock fence is quite limiting for that. The MFT/3 fence works much better.

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I don't have as many Festools as Fred. Or Marcou's, or Brese's, or Lie-Nielsen's, or Lee Valley's, or Blue Spruce's, or Harold and Saxon's, or...

If that is the only standard, I would just buy everything at the furniture store, Lowes, etc.

The guy did something no one else has done and he did a damn nice job. I respect that.

I give the guy his due credit for ingenuity but I struggle with it's purpose for cutting parallel pieces.
There are other solutions that still allow for zero clearance, splinter free cuts with the Festool guide rails that don't require changing the saw over to a table saw. I'm not a contractor but I think in most situations I would prefer to use my portable Bosch 4100 with it's excellent guard & anti-kickback if for some reason the standard Festool system didn't fit the requirement.
His attachments could save a long walk getting the portable table saw out of the truck. The jig saw & router attachments should be handy.