The center of the shop · review
The one saw here that will cut steel as well as wood — a genuinely useful trick, and a compromise on the wood cut that goes with it.
The end of it A specialist tool that happens to be cheap. If you never cut metal, the money is better spent on the Scheppach or the Metabo.
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.
255 mm (10 in) multi-material blade, 1,800 W with soft start, bevel to 45°, mitre to ±60°, and a 3 m (10 ft) cable. Evolution rates the supplied blade for wood, metal and plastic.
Evolution built its business on carbide-tipped blades that cut mild steel dry, without coolant and without the shower of sparks an abrasive disc produces. It works, it is genuinely useful in a mixed workshop, and no other saw on this page offers it.
The question is whether you cut metal. If the answer is no — and for most people reading a woodworking site it is — then this is a 255 mm (10 in) saw whose blade is a compromise, competing against saws whose blade is not. The Scheppach above has more table and a stand at a lower price; the Metabo has a better fence.
A blade that cuts steel has a tooth geometry that cuts steel: more teeth, a different grind, a different rake. On wood that produces a cut that is acceptable rather than clean, especially across the grain and on veneered material. The fix is straightforward — keep the supplied blade for metal, fit a dedicated wood blade for wood — and it costs the price of a blade.
Hot metal chips and a bin of fine sawdust are a bad combination, and an extractor connected during a metal cut delivers the first directly into the second. Either empty and disconnect the extractor for metal work, or accept sweeping up afterwards.
No such listing: the American Amazon shop answers the reference with a search box rather than a page.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
| Blade diameter | 255 mm (10 in) |
|---|---|
| Motor | 1,800 W, soft start |
| Bevel | 45° |
| Mitre | ±60° |
| Supplied blade | Multi-material TCT — wood, metal and plastic |
| Cable | 3 m (10 ft) |
| Amazon reference | B0CZTZKRPH (identical on 5 markets) |
| EAN | 5056583007696 |
It cuts wood perfectly well and it does not cut it as cleanly as a dedicated wood blade with the right tooth count and grind. Treat the supplied blade as the metal-cutting one, buy a proper wood blade for wood, and swap — the saw is then better at both jobs than any single blade makes it.
On a machine designed for it and with the blade it was designed to use, yes — that is the point of this one. The hazard people miss is downstream: hot metal chips into an extractor full of wood dust. Empty the extractor first, or run the metal cuts without it and sweep up.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
7.6/ 10
A specialist tool that happens to be cheap. If you never cut metal, the money is better spent on the Scheppach or the Metabo.
A mixed workshop where the same machine has to handle timber one day and steel section the next
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.
254 mm (10 in) · 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
216 mm (8.50 in) · 1,600 W · 30 mm (1.18 in) bore
Bosch’s compact site saw: lighter than the class, sensibly guarded, and built around a blade small enough to limit what it can rip.
Best for: Trim, second-fix and repeated small rips, where the saw has to move between rooms or sites
18 V · 70 mm (2.76 in) cut height · 216 mm (8.50 in) blade · bare tool
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.
Best for: Site work and small shops already holding Bosch Professional 18 V batteries
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.
