What kind of table saw do you have

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RE: What kind of table saw do you have - MGoBlue1984 - 06-09-2025

Started with a Craftsman 103.22171 8” belt drive saw, 1960 vintage, with a 1 hp Baldor motor (original was 1/2 hp). Cast iron web extension wings (finger breakers!). Very finicky to adjust, but used it for years. Handed down from my Dad. Still have it in storage.

Had a Delta 1160 till top 10” saw, handed down from grandfather. Lack of space dictated I sell it.

Somewhere around 1997 I bought a 3 hp Unisaw. Over the years added cast iron wings, an over arm guard, mobile base, Biesemeyer fence and disappearing splitter.

RE: What kind of table saw do you have - Arlin Eastman - 06-09-2025

I did have the Grizzly g0690 which was a great cabinet saw with riving knife and 3hp

Now the saw I have which was given to me by Aram is a Powermatic 66 with 3hp that saw is a lot more quite then the grizzly and after cleaning everything works way smoother. I do need to make a riving knife for it tho

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RE: What kind of table saw do you have - Arlin Eastman - 06-09-2025

(06-07-2025, 08:40 AM)tablesawtom Wrote: I will start it. Started woodworking in 1973. There was no microwaves, cable TV , no cell phones, just dial up but we did have 8 track tapes. 3 tv stations and they went off the air at midnight. The only woodworking magazine was Workbench. I will include Popular Science. The only store that I knew of, to get any woodworking machinery, was Sears. Compared to today it was like living in the stone age

My first saw was a Sears RAS. In late 75 I saw a Shopsmith demonstration and I wanted one and I got one, in 84 got hurt and was off work 3 years, had to sell Shopsmith. In 86 got a, made in 1953. Sears table saw with no rip fence. Was able to get a Biesmeyer 52 inch home shop rip fence. Even to today I love the fence. A couple of years later I upgraded to a delta contractor and in 1992 got a General 350 cabinate saw.

Later I thought Saw Stop was just a gimmick saw, but after two professional woodworker friends had table saw accidents I reconsidered, and with one of the government stimulus checks, wife got one also I was able to sell the General saw and buy the saw Stop 3 HP saw.

I love the left tilt, and every other things about it. It is very well built and at 79 will probably be the last saw I buy.

Tom

Tom
Do not forget the 1956 Dewalt RAS with the 3/4hp you gave me. It is now up and running and just need to adjust the surface table

RE: What kind of table saw do you have - tablesawtom - 06-10-2025

(06-09-2025, 07:27 PM)Arlin Eastman Wrote: Tom
Do not forget the 1956 Dewalt RAS with the 3/4hp you gave me. It is now up and running and just need to adjust the surface table

Yes I did forget that one. I also have a benchtop Rigid table saw in my garage. I have a DeWalt 10 inch RAs that I also use. I do not have a Compound miter saw. I didn't mention it because I am asking about table saws but I have truly enjoyed reading about what every one has including RAS's. And I hope people continue to respond to this post because I love reading about how passionate people are about their love for working wood. And how that passion influences purchases. And Photos don't hurt.

Tom

RE: What kind of table saw do you have - EvilTwin - 06-10-2025

I've been through a few. First actual table saw was one of the Cman contractor saws with the cable drive (no belt). I lived with that POS for a while all through my first marriage. Upgraded the fence as the original was mostly useless.

That was replaced with a new Unisaw sometime in the mid 90's with the long Biesmeyer fence. I kept that saw quite a while, but I sold it and upgraded to a Delta 12/14 when I was in the OWWM era back around 2008. I was a serious knucklehead back then. I had just gotten two new hip replacements and a month later I'm jackassing out to the western part of VA to pick this thing up. Lucky for me there was another guy picking up a machine from the same place and he helped me take the top off and get the thing in the back of the truck. Otherwise I would have never managed it.

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It cleaned up nicely and looked like this after I finished with it.

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After a while I sold it off since it was more table than saw and I picked up a Bosch 10" saw on the gravity rise stand. I moved that saw out to the shed and filled the garage/shop with bikes(motorcycles). I still have that saw and it still sits in the shed along with a mitersaw on one of the Ridgid MSUV stands.

In an effort to get back into woodworking again, I picked up an INCA 10" saw, the kind where the table raises and tilts and the arbor is stationary. It was a very nice little saw, but the non standard miter gauge slots and tiny table just didn't work for me.

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My last and current saw is as old as I am, a 1956 Unisaw. I picked it up for 100 bucks and rebuilt it last summer. What is unique about this saw is I built a shroud for the blade that travels up and down and throughout the tilt range and has a 2 inch port to capture most of the dust before it floats to the bottom of the cabinet. I also engineered a blade guard with dust collection that seems to do a fair job at capturing dust at the top.

Blade Shroud:

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Plugging up the extra holes for dust flow :
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The blade guard with DC and CNC milled throat plate:

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RE: What kind of table saw do you have - todayIlearned - 06-10-2025

For the last 25 years I got the General 350.