ashki

I've been using a Bosch 4100 for about 1 1/2 years. I needed a relatively small, accurate tablesaw and for safety reasons a riving knife appealed to me. I also work mostly with hand tools in a very small shop so a tablesaw was not going to be the center of activity.

The saw performs well. Blade, riving knife and fence alignment were dead-on out of the box. I did not expect expect it to be a cabinet saw so the limitations of power and table size were not a problem.

My disappointment with the 4100 has been the following:

The table is not as flat as I would like it to be. There is a mild hump and twist that I can work around but it is somewhat annoying considering how accurate everything else was out of the box.

I returned the first saw and the second had a similar amount of out-of-flatness. Bosch customer service was great and they paid shipping both ways. I spoke with someone at Bosch after getting the second saw and the table was within their acceptable specs. I had hoped their specs had tighter tolerances in this area.

The coating on the aluminum table scratches and comes off easily. Though I am using it to cut wood (duh!) the effect on the table is like using metal utensils on a Teflon skillet. Not a big deal but it doesn't make sense to me that cutting wood should damage the finish of a saw table.

Dust collection is awful even with a zero clearance insert and a shop vacuum.