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Bosch Professional GTS 18V-70 review

A cordless table saw with a 70 mm (2.76 in) cut height and no battery in the box — and a French price nearly €300 below the British one.

The end of it A serious cordless saw with a serious omission on the listing — and a price worth crossing a border for.

Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.

What the specification says

Part number 0601B44100, on the Bosch Professional 18 V AMPShare system. A 70 mm (2.76 in) cut height, tool-free bevel from -2° to 47°, a rack-and-pinion parallel fence, a mitre gauge, and two Click & Clean extraction ports. It arrives with a 216 × 30 × 1.6 mm (0.06 in) Optiline Wood blade, an angle stop, a push stick, an extraction adapter, a guard, a profile rail and the wrenches. No battery and no charger appear on that list.

Kickback is what a table saw does when it goes wrong

The blade rises at the back of the throat plate. If the kerf closes on those rising teeth — because the offcut pinched, because the workpiece lifted off the fence, because the timber released its tension as it was cut — the saw picks the piece up and throws it back down the line of the cut, where the operator is standing.

The riving knife is the part that holds the kerf open behind the blade, and it is the guard that stays fitted. The rest is procedure: the rip fence and the mitre gauge are never used together on one cut, the last part of every rip goes through on a push stick rather than a hand, and the offcut is left alone until the blade has stopped.

What the listing leaves out

No rip capacity to the right of the blade, no table dimensions, no weight, no indication of how many cuts a battery gives. Cut height is the figure Bosch leads with because 70 mm (2.76 in) is genuinely good for a cordless machine; rip capacity is the one that decides whether a sheet of plywood fits, and it is absent.

The good side, and the catch

Strengths

  • 70 mm (2.76 in) of cut height, which Bosch calls best in class for a cordless table saw
  • Rack-and-pinion parallel fence rather than a clamp-and-hope one
  • Two extraction ports, on a machine type that usually has one blocked one
  • One reference and one EAN across five European markets

Compromises

  • The published delivery list contains no battery and no charger
  • No rip capacity, no table size and no weight on the listing
  • Not sold on amazon.com

Specifications

SystemBosch Professional 18 V, AMPShare
Cut height70 mm (2.76 in)
Bevel range-2° to 47°, tool-free
Supplied bladeOptiline Wood, 216 × 30 × 1.6 mm (8.50 × 1.18 × 0.06 in)
ExtractionTwo Click & Clean ports
Part number0601B44100
Amazon referenceB0FQV2FGNZ (identical on 5 markets)
EAN4053423329865

What comes up most often

Is this the GTS 18V-216?

No. The listing we hold carries part number 0601B44100 and reads GTS 18V-70. We name the product the listing names, not the one the search asked for — and on a saw the difference between two model numbers is usually a different cut height.

Does a battery come with it?

The delivery list published on the listing runs from the saw to the hex key and does not mention a battery or a charger. Budget for two batteries and a charger, and compare the total against a corded saw before deciding.

What does the missing rip capacity cost me?

It is the number that decides whether the saw will break down a sheet of plywood, which is the main reason people buy a portable table saw. Bosch publishes the cut height and not the rip width. Ask the seller for it before ordering.

Where this model is listed

A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.

  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom

Our score

8.6/ 10

A serious cordless saw with a serious omission on the listing — and a price worth crossing a border for.

Who buys this one, among woodworking machines

Site work and small shops already holding Bosch Professional 18 V batteries

Sources

Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.

How we assess these woodworking machines

Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.