SpeTool 90 Degrees Precision Track Saw Square --- Really nice and impressive track saw square here. As it should be at over $150. It is however a nice square, works well and has a smooth high quality finish. All edges are rounded over, soft to the touch and it just gives the impression of a quality tool. No gleaming flaws or short cuts to see here it looks like they were trying to make a quality product worth its price.
I do have to admit.. my first thought when seeing its listed price (at time of my order) of 169.99 was... has SpeTool really made a big enough name to command a price within $15 dollars or so of the almighty bright blue TSO version with its immediately recognized "V" shape that's bragged about on all the YouTube channels? That said, to my experience so far, it seems it probably does anything that other color tool does.. although I don't have any experience with TSO to be honest. I can say this SpeTool version works very, very well.
I must say the first immediate impression it made on me (outside of nice finish and good looks) was how easy it was to use.. which is probably truly the biggest selling point besides accuracy. Although Accuracy was the second big feature noticed, simply as that's the order they're revealed as you put this tool into use.
So to use it, just reach underneath and loosen the two big knurled **** and the spring loaded track bar just moves up into position. I liked that these knurled **** were big enough to get a hold of without being too oversized.. perfect size. Anyway.. make sure the black cam-lever in the center is in the open position, slide the now ready track bar into the track, reach back under and tighten the two **** then swing the cam-lever closed. Done.. simple, quick and easy. There appears to be adjustability to the cam-lock with two slot head screws but to my experience it worked perfect out of the box. You can see the cam-lock is closing off all extra tolerances in as the squares shape perfectly mates to the track but it doesn't really take any force it just swings around in place and the connection is rock solid with a dead 90 when checked with a square. Also as seen in my pics there's cut-outs on the underside to provide space for your track clamps.
For what it's worth I'm using this for now with an economical pair of Wen tracks and a Milwaukee track saw. This is designed for the basic universal tracks such as Milwaukee, Festool, Makita, PowerTec and Wen. I know DeWalt, Ridgid and Kreg have their own propriatary tracks.
There's a big difference between this full size track square and the small compact cheaper squares I've been using. I'm not sure what this tools value should be or what you may think its worth to you but I am sure it seems to work great and I'm certainly glad to have it. 5-Stars for quality, ease of use and performance.
