The centre of the shop · review
The saw on this page whose fence clamps at both ends — the single detail that separates a machine you can trust from one you fight.
The bottom line The best-judged machine on this page. It spends its money on the fence, the brake and the electrics rather than on the number in the title.
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.
254 mm blade. A rip fence with double clamping. A motor brake that Metabo states stops the blade in three seconds. Overload protection, soft start and restart protection. A torsion-resistant tubular frame, cable and accessory storage on the body, an extendable table widener, and automatic reset of the blade tilt. It ships with a 40-tooth carbide-tipped blade, rip fence, mitre gauge, table extension and push stick.
Read that list again and notice what is absent from it: a bigger number than anyone else’s. Metabo has spent the budget on the fence, the brake and the electrics — the three things that decide whether the saw is accurate, whether it is safe, and whether it survives a stalled cut.
The double-clamped fence is the headline. It is the specification we open the table saw hub with, and this is the machine on this page that has it as standard. Everything downstream of the fence — the straightness of a rip, the squareness of a panel, whether the offcut binds — is decided by whether that fence stays parallel at the back as well as the front.
The automatic bevel reset is the quiet one. Any saw will tilt to 45°; returning it to a genuine 90° afterwards is the part that costs ten minutes and a square, every single time, on machines that do not have a positive stop.
Metabo does not publish a maximum cut height on this listing. On a 254 mm blade it will be in the same region as its rivals, but we are not going to state a figure the manufacturer has not — that is exactly the guess this site does not make. If cut height is your deciding specification, confirm it before ordering.
One reference, one EAN, resolving on all six markets. Buy it in Europe: the British and American listings are import-priced by a wide margin, and the service network that makes a Metabo worth owning is on this side of the water.
| Blade diameter | 254 mm |
|---|---|
| Rip fence | Double clamping (manufacturer description) |
| Blade brake | Motor brake, blade stopped in 3 s (manufacturer figure) |
| Motor protection | Overload protection, soft start, restart protection |
| Supplied with | 40-tooth TCT blade, rip fence, mitre gauge, table extension and widener, push stick |
| Amazon reference | B08CTRNS82 (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 4061792180307 |
It fixes the fence at the front rail and the back rail instead of the front alone. A single-clamped fence pivots about its lock, so the far end can sit a fraction of a millimetre off parallel while the near end reads perfectly square. That error burns the cut and pinches the offcut against the blade — which is also the mechanism behind most kickback on a rip cut.
A 254 mm blade coasts for a long time without one. The brake matters least in the moment you switch off and most in the minute afterwards, when the saw looks stopped and is not. It is a genuine safety feature rather than a specification-sheet one.
Because it is an import listing rather than local distribution. The reference resolves on amazon.com but the machine is a European one, sold there by third parties at an importer’s margin and without a local service network behind it.
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.
