Skil flooring saw

[chopnhack]

I just saw this in the new issue of wood and thought, gee... I wish I had that when I did my wood floors!

http://www.skiltools.com/flooringsawtool/

[Hoover]

At lowe's the price is $159.00. It looks interesting.

[herb fellows]

I think our friend Osorio the flooring contractor needed that. I'm pretty sure in hindsight Ryobi would have gladly bought him one.

[cabinetman]

Looks like a handy compact saw. One thing I did notice is that for crosscutting and miters, it looks good, but for ripping, it looks dangerous. Not much room between the blade and the fence, and hard to guide a through cut. Reminds me of the same problem as ripping with a RAS.
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[gjat]

Very interesting concept. Think of the safety factor for cross cutting, compared to the SawStop.
-You're moving just the saw, a known and finite mass, as compared to moving the wood of infinite sizes and mass.
-The blade is pretty well covered, almost eliminating any accidental touching when moving wood (or moving the saw).
-I can see a law-suit against SS for promoting old 'exposed blade' technology when this concept has been around for years.

When using Law for profiteering, be careful of how good your argument is.

[LinuxRandal]

Just reminds me of a cross between a tile saw, and a guided circular saw system.

How hard would it be to use a plywood base, with a stop/fence on one end, and a piece of track for a miter gauge at the other?

[Shep]

I remember the problem I had when laying my laminate hardwood floors. I did all the cutting in my basement shop, and I had to make about 100 trips up and down the stairs. This thing would have saved a bunch of time.

[chopnhack]

I remember the problem I had when laying my laminate hardwood floors. I did all the cutting in my basement shop, and I had to make about 100 trips up and down the stairs. This thing would have saved a bunch of time.

Exactly or running out to the garage or worse outside if your doing a remodel for someone. Imagine condo's

[cgallery]

Looks like a handy compact saw. One thing I did notice is that for crosscutting and miters, it looks good, but for ripping, it looks dangerous. Not much room between the blade and the fence, and hard to guide a through cut. Reminds me of the same problem as ripping with a RAS.
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Same thought here. It would be nice if the had added some safety features (allowance for featherboard, for example) while ripping.

Does the saw have some sort of splitter on it?

[DrChas]

seems about like my compound miter saw.

I bought a Delta sliding compound miter saw when I put in my first wood floor (the "I can't do a major project without buying a new tool" syndrome). As far as I can tell it IS the saw for the job. Its reasonably portable, and I just set it up on a piece of cardboard in the room I was working in. After your done you get a finish blade for it, and your table saw becomes a dedicated ripping saw. Of course I bought mine about 10 years ago, so I suspect my saw would be a lot more expensive than this one.

[BigguyZ]

Wow, that does look handy. Man, I wish I had one of those when I installed about about 2000 sq feet of flooring in a house my brother and I were working on. Definitely worth the $150...