Doesn’t seem flat enough to me. I’ve always heard the tablesaw is the flattest surface in your shop. Is this okay?

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    1 year ago

    I hate to say it, but it’s probably an acceptable amount of flatness for a jobsite saw. I’m willing to bet their cast iron offerings have better tolerances. You do have the safety features, though.

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    When I purchased my first woodworking equipment, I was thinking much more like an engineer than a craftsman. I pretty quickly found that wood is a fairly forgiving material, and being off by a few thousandths on a table saw isn’t usually a big deal. But, it depends on what you’re building and what other tools you have.

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      1 year ago

      The diagonal table flatness spec for the Sawstop Jobsite Pro is 0.033 inches. (The CTS doesn’t have a specified flatness on the Sawstop site.) The gauges in your pictures are 0.015.

      So yes, that is normal. Yours is twice as flat as the specified tolerance for a model that is twice the price.