Inside a Sliding Table Saw + Long-Term Review + Upgrades

A long-term review of the HAMMER K3 Basic sliding table saw after six years of private use. In addition to that, I made a few upgrades to the saw that add a lot of conveniences and should be standard. I wish I had made all of them years ago.

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[MariusHornberger]

Long break since my last video. I hope you like this one again. BTW, I made a new logo. What do you think about it?

[MrPatdeeee]

Oh how I wish all "DIY'rs" on YouTube, would use the tactics that Marius does. He is one of THE greatest instructors around. No waste of time and he "Cut's to the Chase!" and makes it interesting; instead of boring Thank you kind Sir for sharing your innate talents with us.

Oh, wie ich mir wünsche, dass alle "Heimwerker" auf YouTube die Taktiken anwenden würden, die Marius macht. Er ist einer der besten Instruktoren überhaupt. Keine Zeitverschwendung und er "Cut's to the Chase!" und macht es interessant; statt langweilig Vielen Dank, lieber Herr, dass Sie Ihre angeborenen Talente mit uns teilen.

[fastbike]

An interesting in depth real world review by a guy who has bought the gear with his own money - this is very different to the sponsored channels.
I have a bigger brother with the integrated spindle moulder and love the precision and safety these saws provide.
I installed a decent ducted dust collection when I purchased the saw and a couple of years later designed and built and automated control system to handle the 2 gates on the saw/moulder, 2 on the planer/thicknesser and the one on the bandsaw. This is one of the best productivity improvements as it allows me to concentrate on the cuts rather than turning the collector on and making sure the correct gate is open.

[Itslvle]

I got the K3 winner a while ago. My girlfriend was watching your conclusion very carefully if it's a piece of crap. When you said you wouldn't get it again, her eyes narrowed. And then you said the winner was better, and I was relieved. Thank you. :D

[GertrudeGrindhorn]

Hello Marius, I remember when you bought that Felder table saw, and visited the factory, if I'm not mistaken, and helped the Felder designers re-engineer that 'flip-stop' mod..which was rolled out to existing customers, and used in later factory customer builds on your machine type. It seems not very long ago, ha ha. Clearly the Felder machines are first class, as your saw still looks very new. I am very jealous of your lovely table saw..sadly, where I live, the import duties would probably double the cost of a similar machine sent to where I live. I manage with a much lesser table saw...with a lot of mods, but will never approach the precision of a decent factory built tool. Keep up the videos, you are one of the best engineer YouTubers, and we appreciate your no-nonsense, and very human style of videos..we all make (many!) mistakes which we learn from when doing woodworking, and I love that you include some mistakes on your builds. Many thanks for all the hard work that goes into quality videos that you make.

[Mike--K]

Great video, and thank you for the look inside the K3. I wanted the K3 Winner for my shop, but the delivery time was too long. Instead, I bought the Minimax SC2 Classic for about the same price as the Classic from a distributor in Mannheim. The delivery time was one week and the cost included the scoring blade option, delivery, assembly, and commissioning.

Your ability to recognize an opportunity and develop a working solution never ceases to amaze me! Your solution for the extension table is wonderful, and I hope Felder is watching and paying attention as it did with your flip stop design. The extension table for the SC2C is similar to your design which makes installing and moving it simple and easy (Einfach ist immer besser 😄) . I attached an Incra LS25 positioner to an extension table to create a point in space for ripping with the slider instead of the fence. I haven't used the fence since.

[nils]

20:52 Marius flexing that he still owns plastic straws.

[briturner]

missed this channel so much. I have a Felder K700S in storage waiting for my shop to be built. And this video has got me so excited. Cant wait to make these upgrades to my saw too!

[martykorn]

To acquire all the finer nuances of master woodwork you need passion, patience, a real job to fund woodworking hobby, and probably above average IQ.

Which is why we see so many true craftsman these days.

[gregoranda]

The endcap zero clearance was mind-blowing. It's so silly easy. Its so brilliant. Im making one for my felder asap

[chrissscottt]

Marius is such a likeable chap which compliments his extreme cleverness.

[chillyspoon]

Utterly brilliant cross cut "sled" design, and I love the end cap idea -> I have an aluminum fence on a cross-cut sled that's going to be mod'd that way tomorrow!

[zbynekchmela]

I just love your ideas. Double clamp joint mechanism - cool, with magnets - supercool. But placing that support piece just a bit sorter than size of sliding table? Thats bloody brilliant!

[AndreaArzensek]

Because of your first video on K3 my brother and I got the K3 Winner. But we were quite unfortunate - there are 2 videos on my channel.
Finally we upgraded to Felder K700 6 months ago (Felder helped us with the budget a bit) and we couldn't be happier now.
I'm glad that you're happy with your saw.
Best regards from Croatia 😊

[OlivierGomis]

Dude, that straw tip is GENIUS. Also I always love a good opportunity to shit on the imperial system.

[StefanGotteswinter]

Sieht im inneren haargenau aus wie unsere alte Felder in der Firma. Unglaublich Robust gebaut, wir sägen seit Jahren damit Aluplatten bis 40mm, ich glaub Holz hat unsere noch nie gesehen :D
Motor könnte bei uns gerne doppelt so stark sein.

[BassadorWoodworking]

The table saw was impressive enough but that sled was next level. Great work!

[troykruse]

Christmas came early. Marius is back!!!👏👏👏

[joecnc]

The English expresion: "Don't fix it - if it's not broken". Love the sliding table on that table saw - I wished American made saws came standard with them (they don't. I have a Delta Contractor Table saw as well as an older high end Powermatic 66 table saw.")

[LostWhits]

The two lugs on the Arbour are for the braking. I worked for a company that bought a new saw, and then couldn't use any of their existing blades because they didn't have the twin holes.