call me mister butterfingers
i picked up this table saw today:
this is really going to come in handy when i do the framing, as the non-parallel walls are going to require lots of miter and bevel cuts. i'm normally not a big fan of ryobi's products, but this is a pretty decent unit and the price was great, too.
i gave it a test drive by cutting a piece of MDF to fix a cabinet in our current house. don't worry, i didn't have any emo philips incidents. it really shined on the rip cut, but it had a little more trouble with cross cuts. i cut a total of 3 boards, and on all 3 it either kicked back about 1/4" before finishing the cut, or threw the short side of the cut back about 4-5 feet. this may have been because i wasn't using any sort of push stick to gide the short side of the cut along--i'll do that next time.