Editor's Review: How to Tune Up Your Tablesaw

by Roland Johnson

review date: September 25, 2012

Being an admirere of European automobiles, I appreciate well-engineered machines like the new Hammer K3 Winner tablesaw (I tested the 31x48-in. model). The right-tilting saw is a smooth operator with a 3-kilowatt motor (a bit more than 4 hp) that delivers serious cutting power, an adjustable riving knife for enhanced safety, an electronic motor brake for safety and convenience, and a European-style rip fence that can be used in a high or low profile, all for less than most other sliding saws on the market.

Micro-adjust rip fence. The Euro-style fence lets you dial in the cut with precision.

Of course, the sliding table is the big selling point. Seldom seen on American saws, it provides super-accurate cuts with support close to the blade, replacing your shopmade crosscut sled and making miter cuts, trimming doors to fit, and a host of other fussy operations easy and safe, not to mention how excellent a sliding table is with sheet goods. This slider is silky-smooth in operation and has a locking pin that secures the table for ripcuts. The long crosscut fence is accurate and easily adjusted for miter cuts, and it features a stout flip-up stop for repeat crosscuts.

The 12-in. blade has a unique double 9mm pin arbor mount with a central 30mm bore. It’s available from Hammer, and dado blades are available from forrestblades.com (item No. DK06244; $337, with custom bore).

Editor Test Results:

Table Flatness	N/A
Parallel Test	N/A
Arbor Runout	N/A
Noise Level	N/A