The centre of the shop · review
Bosch’s compact site saw: lighter than the class, sensibly guarded, and built around a blade small enough to limit what it can rip.
The bottom line The one to buy if the saw has to be carried. The one to skip if it lives in one place, where the same money buys more blade.
Hands-on testing pending. Nothing below is presented as our own measurement. Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgements 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.
216 mm blade on a 30 mm arbor, 1 600 W, and a self-closing blade guard described by Bosch as part of the safety package alongside the safety switch and the lightweight construction.
Every compact site saw trades cut height and table area for the ability to be picked up. The GTS 635-216 makes that trade explicitly: a 216 mm blade instead of a 250 or 254, and a smaller table than the stationary machines further down this page.
Whether that is the right trade depends on one question you can answer in a second — does the saw move? If it lives in a garage and never leaves, you are paying for portability you will never use and giving up capacity you will. If it goes into a van, none of the stationary saws here are in the running.
A self-closing guard matters more than it sounds. Guards get removed because they are in the way of a specific cut, and the ones that are awkward to refit stay off. A guard that drops back into place on its own survives the second week, and a saw that still has its guard in year three is a meaningfully safer machine than one with better paper specifications and a guard in a drawer.
The reference resolves on all six markets we checked, on the same EAN. Note the US price relative to the German one: that is an import listing, not local distribution. If you are buying in the United States, this is not the saw to choose — you will pay a premium for a machine with no local service behind it.
Fence parallelism under load, and the actual proportion of dust captured. Bosch publishes an extraction port but not a capture figure, and no manufacturer in this category does.
| Blade diameter | 216 mm |
|---|---|
| Blade bore | 30 mm |
| Motor | 1 600 W |
| Guarding | Self-closing blade guard, safety switch (manufacturer description) |
| Amazon reference | B07R3X3MQM (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 3165140947008 |
For everything up to about 65–70 mm in one pass, yes — which covers sheet goods, trim, and most softwood framing on edge. It is not enough to rip a 100 mm oak blank, and no accessory changes that. Blade diameter is the one specification on a table saw you cannot upgrade.
Because European blades are made with a 30 mm centre hole and much of the rest of the world is not. A saw with a 30 mm arbor takes them directly; anything else needs a reducer ring, which is one more part to lose and one more source of runout.
18 V · 70 mm cut height · 216 mm blade · bare tool
A cordless table saw with a 70 mm cut height and no battery in the box — and a French price nearly €300 below the British one.
Best for: Site work and small shops already holding Bosch Professional 18 V batteries
≈ £820 / 620 €
210 mm · rack-and-pinion fence · 65 mm cut
The most refined compact saw here: a rack-and-pinion fence that moves squarely by design, in a body small enough to carry in one hand.
Best for: Site work and small workshops where accuracy matters more than capacity
≈ £540 / 480 €
254 mm · sliding carriage · 2 000 W
The only saw here with a sliding carriage built in — which is what turns a table saw into something that crosscuts panels accurately.
Best for: A workshop that regularly breaks down and squares sheet goods
≈ 635 €
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.
