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Bosch 1640VSK Fine Cut Finishing Saw Kit with Miter | 
| Brand: Bosch
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $300.00
Buy New: $164.00
You Save: $136.00 (45%)
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 4108
Media: Tools & Hardware
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.8
Dimensions (in): 18.2 x 14.3 x 5.9
MPN: 1640VSK
Model: 1640VSK
UPC: 000346309645
EAN: 0000346309645
ASIN: B0000223FQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 3.5 Amps, 2,000-2,800 RPM | | • | Precision sawing, including flush cutting in wood, wood composites, and plastics | | • | Variable Speed - match speed to workpiece and task | | • | Flush-cutting ability - blade can lie flat on work surface while cutting | | • | Blades mount on left or right side for excellent visibility and total versatility |
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Amazon.com Review
It might look like the world's largest safety razor, but Bosch's fine-cut saw is a handy little niche tool. Essentially just an electric handsaw, the 1640VSK was designed for flooring installers and remodelers. It feels good in your hand, with a nice grip and contoured angles. The large on/off switch is conveniently located where your thumb would rest. The blades mount easily, too, with the option of mounting to either side. Though the saw doesn't look powerful, we were impressed with its smooth operation. It's precise and works equally well with wood, composites, and plastic. It makes a cleaner cut by far than a reciprocating saw and fits into much smaller places. We used ours to shorten a bunch of door trim before installing new kitchen flooring. It worked great. Why not just use the old handsaw? Well, good question. We guess it depends on how often you have to make these sorts of cuts (and how tired you are of banging your knuckles while making them). The saw also comes with a miter table attachment--which we have to admit we'd be unlikely to use, owning as we do a nice compound miter saw. A floor installer, however, might think it worked just fine. --Michael Shilling
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
Bosch 1640VSK December 28, 2007
Very good tool for cutting in pleces where it is difficult to reach with other tools. The miter is also good, but it is less accurate than a circular saw. The tool is good considering that is also inexpensive compared to other, more precise and professional solutions. The tool is a must have for difficult to reach places. Bosch 1640VSK Fine Cut Finishing Saw Kit with Miter
 bogus December 5, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is actually a review I wrote for the Bosch planer. But as I already had written a previous review It would not allow a 2nd one. So I am writing it here.
I think some of these reviews are fake. After cmy problems with this planer I noticed that some of the other reviews were so glowing. so I clicked on " Ted Peterson".
Surprise, surprise. He has made 8 reviews. All 8 were Bosch products!! All 8 were rated 5 star!! And all 8 were gushy in their praising of Bosch perfection. All 8 repeatedly mentioned the Bosh name and could not find ONE bad thing to mention in the performance of 11 tools. Have you ever bought 11 perfect tools?
Same for " Skip Morris". 9 reviews. 9 Bosch tools ( and nothing else). Nine 5 star reviews. Nine Bosch love affairs.
I think they work for Bosch.
Not that Great October 30, 2007
I've read most of the reviews on this saw and had to add my two cents. I've owned this saw for almost 5 years and used it quite a bit each year - until I got exasperated with it each time. Each time I've ended up regreting using it, primarily on the bottom of door jambs where it is supposed to excel. The problem I have with it, is that it is TOO powerful and despite the appearance of being "variable speed", it isn't. It can easily rip up a jamb if you don't get it just right and you must hold it VERY firmly or it will tear out your hands as well. It does a decent job on smaller trim work, working with it in the miter box. Here the miter box attachment helps control this beast. Still, it needs a true variable speed control. It could also use thinner blades, more in line with the Japanese pull saws. The thickness of its blades and its un-variable speed make for burning of the blade and/or the jamb, as well as sticking in the jamb cut while you are doing it. I've often resorted back to my Japanese pull saw after starting a cut with this. Anyway, that's my two cents. It sounds like other do like this, but after 5 years of experience with it, I just don't use it any more because of these problems and unreliability.
 Awesome saw and miter box August 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a contractor and I use this Bosch saw regularly. We use it on the job for cutting door jambs and casings to allow flooring to fit underneath. The miter box is a great addition to the saw, especially for small and/or delicate trim. Regular saws just chew them up, but this saw makes fine cuts easily.
Bosch hand power saw with Miter April 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The saw works great. However, the miter kit is a different matter. It does not give you the height adjustment for the type of moldings you want to cut. Also, the miter angles, I am not sure they are totally accurate. For small molding, I think it works. It not the best in terms of the miter kit.
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