Australian Wood Review

Festool CSC SYS 50 EBI Cordless Tablesaw

I guess it was always going to happen – cordless tablesaws. And as we’ve come to expect from the Festool stable, this saw excels at what it has been designed to do.

Coming in at 20.2 kg without batteries and packing away (along with all the required accessories such as blade caddy, overhead guard, mitre gauge, push-stick etc) into a hard systainer-style case measuring 512 x 396 x 296mm, this unit is truly portable. Portability and utility on job-sites is further enhanced with the addition of the UG-CSC-SYS underframe, which serves as a rolling handcart when collapsed and a dual-height work platform for the saw unit.

Aside from the obvious benefit of being cordless (and running on proprietary Festool 18V

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