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a table saw for cabinetmaking versus a track saw for cabinetmaking you can see right off that I own both of them and I will explain to you why I own both of them and it does have to do with cabinets but why would I want one over the other this table saw is quite a bit more expensive than this track saw so why not just buy a track saw so let's talk that through let's talk about the characteristics of these and I want to point out that we also have videos about each of these three to each of these two tools and probably more information about those that we will put in links down below and if you like the content you see in this video as always we suggest that you subscribe by hitting the subscribe button so that you'll get notified when we produce new content so a table saw just as a quick basic review you can do rip cuts which means cutting wood along a fence pushed up near the blade so you make the cut along the length of the wood or you can do cross cuts where you put the piece of wood in some kind of a miter gauge and you push it into the saw blade and you cut across the width of the wood as opposed to the length of the wood track saw can do those same two cuts the track saw utilizes a track that it goes on and that's what imparts an accuracy and makes it capable of producing cabinet type of cuts so it's it's important to know that I can take this saw to the job site much more easily than I can take a table saw to the job site so one of the differentiators between using a table saw and using a drak saw is whether or not you have to do your work at the job site or whether you're going to do your work in your workshop with your table saw you certainly can do everything on the table saw and I want to tell you you can do all the things also at the job site with a track saw although cutting small thin pieces of wood that are small can be a little trickier with a track saw than using a miter gauge and a cross cut on a table saw so why would I want to own let's say I'm making cabinets in my shop why would I want to learn this track saw at all does that give me any value added in the job of making cabinets and the answer is at least for me yes it does and the reason is because this saw is very good at taking large pieces of sheet good goods that is four by eight sheets of plywood or any size sheets of plywood and cutting them down to size because trying to pass a large sheet of plywood handle and pass a large sheet of plywood over the surface of this table saw both safely and accurately is not trivial is it it can be difficult and it's very heavy work if you use the track saw you can go outside for instance and you can put it on a piece of insulation that you sacrificial insulation that you could cut through foam insulation and you put your track your your the wood to be cut the piece of plywood on top of that then your track then your saw on the track and you make the cut without ever moving this big piece of wood once you've placed it on the ground because you line up the cut by lining up the track on the top surface of the plywood and then run this over you don't have to run the wood over the top surface of the tool so for me I use this to break down large pieces of sheet goods before I bring them in to do the rest of the milling for cabinets but again you can do all of the milling for cabinets using a track saw and you can do it portably and outside the cost is also significantly different this is not a terribly inexpensive saw it's many hundreds of dollars but this saw in many cases is thousands of dollars and it's also you need a lot of room in your workshop to use it that's another consideration so another reason potentially for making this choice rather than a table saw for doing your precision work is if you only have a small workshop a small space in which to work and putting a large table saw in that space is going to rob you of a space to do put other tools or do other things so space can be a consideration as well so here's an example that I want to show you to illustrate a couple of the differences and similarities between the table saw and the track saw if you were going to make a simple shaker this is a cabinet pretty much completed except for finish if you are going to make a shaker cabinet where you had just square edges here and no bevels and no raised panel kind of stuff that you can do on either the table saw or the basic cuts can be done on the track saw but if you look at this side you'll notice that we have this beveled edge in here for decoration which really looks nice it's sort of a raised panel without actually doing a raised panel but this you would not be able to do in any way on the the track saw but with the table saw it is possible to push put this decoration this decorative edge on here even without a router you can do it just with a table saw so again you can use both of them one is a little bit more flexible than the other but you can do the basic job with both of 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