all right why did i buy the festool kpx in today's exciting episode we're gonna
discuss that and we're also gonna unbox
it so the capex the festool kpx this thing's a beast all right let's take it to the job
it fits i'm not going to pretend that i'm not excited because
i'm i am excited i'm very excited about the saw let me tell you why
so the main things that i like about the festool kapex after the times trying it and researching
it is the blade change the accuracy the angle adjustment the forward sliding motion believe
it or not the handle just to name a few things one thing i don't like about the festool is the stand
that you can buy with it so i'm going to modify it to fit my dewalt stand
fishing and swimming golf tennis
i'm gonna have to have a bit more of a think about how it works with the dewalt stand
original idea wasn't quite working the base of the festival capex is too big for the dewalt
arms so i was gonna use ply and everything but yeah i'll figure that out later
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it's saturday 4 30 in the afternoon and i literally just finished all the skirting
all the pieces and everywhere see the thing about polish floors is there's
no room to hide any imperfections in the skirting every skirting had to be scribed to the floor
100 year old floor wavy skirting i had my laser set up and everything to get the top
of the skirting level in some cases i had to put it slightly at a level but
hey i'm really happy with how it turned out now i say all that to say that
this is the perfect job for this kpx trying it out and getting a good first impression of it
and my first impressions are still good um the only reason i don't seem so excited is because
i'm tired so let's start with some things that i didn't expect uh good and bad now we'll start
with the good um the accuracy of the laser it's got this two line laser system here so
the gap in the middle represents your blade if i want to keep this side i would go like
that and if i wanted to keep that side i would go like that that laser system was really good
for cutting the skirting it was like bang on every time i knew it had a laser but i didn't realize
that's how it worked and it works great um the other thing i really like is the depth adjustment
amazing amazing depth adjustment so that's the lever there so when you pull it down that engage
that when you pull it down that engages the depth adjustment so when that lever's down all you have
to do is twist this dial and you can literally see the blade moving up so you can actually do
micro adjustments of your depth so yeah that little micro adjustment on the depth is great
this vacuum thing is another positive it clicks into place so you just twist it pull it out twist
it and then it's locked in so no hoses flying off the back of the saw as you're making cuts
some negatives that i didn't expect you'll notice here i don't have the fence on the back and that's
because pretty much in any miter position the rubber hood here gets caught on the fence
so i want the dust extraction and the dust extraction has been great but in order to
maintain the good dust extraction you've got to keep this rubber hood here and i keep hitting
the fence with it so i take the fence off i'm cutting the skirting flat so it's fine but if
you were trying to cut it nested you know like vertically um yeah that rubber hood would get
quite annoying i've seen guys that fold it back on itself but i tried that and i i still hit stuff so
not so good and one of the things that have annoyed me quite a bit is this guard this guard
tends to grab the offcut of your timber and shoot it that way it's a little bit unnerving the first
time it happened i was just it just slingshotted forward and snapped and gave me a bit of a freight
but all it is is the guard just grabbing the off cut and pushing it forward and snapping it
and that just i don't know a way around that now everything else were things that i was expecting
and was good which is the quality of the dust extraction um i quite like the handle i know that
is unpopular for a lot of people but i feel like your hand is in line with the blade so you feel
like you're pushing all your pressure in the right place right above the blade and pushing it through
the angle system the way you flip the back up and then adjust the handle from the front
and because there's a spring supporting the body of the saw it doesn't just fall on you you don't
have to hold it up as you're adjusting it it just holds itself that is fantastic i really like that
and even this thing here this comes with pretty much any mitre saw you buy um festool's one is
extra cool obviously they're the festool touch with a little quick latch lever this is one of
those things that you put in the base and then it clamps down your stuff most builders just throw
these away straight away we never use them but i actually use this one maybe it's the
lever how quick you can just lock it down but um when i had skirting that was sort of arching out
this um this came in handy the angle finder on the back the sucker here i didn't use this at all
for the skirting i had mostly right angles and i didn't have to really worry about it i
coped some internal corners and the external corners were all square we built the walls
uh so i just went 90 degrees so it didn't i don't have any tricky angles to figure out but
you know stay tuned on a future exciting episode i might use this
who knows but it's great how it clips in the back of the uh clips in the back of the saw
and one of the things that made me buy it was the weight of it it's very lightweight compared
to some of the other saws out there that saves my back which is great going in and out of the van
so yeah i really like it oh and the the base thingy as well so most miter saws have indents
that are set on zero degrees 22 degrees etc the indent bypass on this one's really great you just
put your thumb down and if your thumb is pressed down and then you lock the lever and it could
you could lock it on any point and it will stay there in short i really like it and it
made working a saturday fun i pretty much play with a toy holder and the skirting is
done that means pretty much all the inside stuff is done door handles are going to put
door handles on we're nearly there we're nearly finished painter monday floor standard wednesday
this renovation is nearly done i've really enjoyed doing this renovation i'm tired now
but this renovation has been great fun project all right catch you guys in the next exciting episode
oh yeah and i've got to come up with a bench system because right now my bench system is
a recycling bin the workbench with that on it a little too high a box that went there
and this stack of boxes for the extra long pieces not all right