THE RIGHT (FES)TOOL FOR THE JOB

REVIEWED

Festool cordless plunge-cut saw

WHEN I WAS A boy, my dad was always doing woodworking projects, so I was exposed to a garage full of hand and power tools. My dad has a safety-first philosophy, so wearing eye-, ear and body protection when operating power tools was the norm. (He was the operator, I was the helper.)

But all the protective gear in the world didn’t make me less afraid of his radial-arm power saw. That thing seemed angry, and the unreasonable sounds it made while dad was cutting certainly backed up my theory. Like an enraged predator, it looked poised