As the title says. Why do most American woodworkers have a regular cabinet table saw and not a sliding one when the latter is much more practical and also safer? Instead every YouTube video is not about the product itself but about making jigs to be able to make the product. Jigs that would be totally unnecessary with a slider. I know that a sliding saw takes more space but there are quite compact sliders, not only those huge formatting saws that occupy 15 square meters. And many of those woodworkers have a sawstop with all the extension tables and a huge outfeed table anyway. And for a half price of a sawstop you have a Hammer k2s which is a top quality slider (or other similar saws). In the end the slider is easier to operate and more precise. submitted by /u/AleLover111 [link] [comments]