Description
Original, Patented Guide Rail Square for FESTOOL®, MAKITA®, Milwaukee®, POWERTEC® & TRITON®
Introducing the newest version of the best-selling guide rail square on the market: the GRS-16. Incorporating a number of user-driven enhancements, the TSO GRS-16 guide rail square is still the fastest, easiest and most accurate way to square cuts with your FESTOOL, MAKITA, MILWAUKEE, POWERTEC and TRITON track saw guide rails.
Featuring New Enhancements
Thanks to feedback from the TSO user community, the GRS-16 guide rail square now includes:
- Our lightest design ever despite being CNC machined from 25% thicker aluminum, with a mating vertical edge providing maximum guide rail support
- Latch hook resilient coating grasps and protects the edge of your guide rail
- Easier to install onto your guide rail with a reshaped T-feature lead-in
- Accessory mounting holes tapped for M6 threads—enables connection to the TSO Parallel Guide System and Angle Accessory
- Available Dual FoamPac Systainer Insert fits both the GRS-16 and GRS-16 PE in a single Systainer
- New, fully recyclable all-corrugated white packaging
See How It Works
Simple, Automatic Accuracy
Introducing the fastest way to dead square cuts with your track saw: the GRS-16 Guide Rail Square. With its custom-made and powerful draw latch, the GRS-16 instantly self-squares while it clamps down to your track. And with a one-piece design made from a solid chunk of CNC-milled aluminum, you won't have to worry about losing that screw, clamp or other necessary accessory. Simply slide the GRS-16 onto your guide rail, clamp it down, and get to work.
Accurate cuts with your track saw may require using a screw or quick clamp to secure the guide rail to your workpiece. For this reason, the GRS-16 features notches to accommodate popular clamps from Festool, Axminster, or the like.
Built to be a Lifetime Tool
The GRS-16 is precision CNC machined from a single piece of 5/8" (15 mm) thick 6061-T6 aluminum and then anodized for a non-marring, high durability finish. The high-strength draw latch is custom-made from stainless steel to resist rust and pitting over time. Despite its high clamping strength, a comfort coating on the latch handle makes it easy to generate the leverage necessary to engage, release or reposition the square along your length of track. The GRS-16 guide rail square is made in the United States, and comes with our five-year warranty.
So Which Tool is Right for You?
If you want the absolute smallest and lightest form factor and anticipate using the square for conventional cuts referencing the front edge of your workpiece, choose the GRS-16 (the product you see on this page). If you need the ability to reference off the front and back edge of your workpiece, select the GRS-16 PE.
A System Approach
The GRS-16 is much more than a guide rail square; in fact, it's the foundation of a broader system of TSO Products designed for interoperability. Case in point: the GRS-16 includes attachment points to connect to the TSO Parallel Guide System. Once connected, you can repeatedly square and parallel rip multiple workpieces in a single operation.
Technical Details
- Dimensions: 15.2 x 6.0 x 1.4 inches (385 x 152 x 36 mm)
- Weight: 1.7 lbs (772 g)
- Material: 6061-T6 aluminum, anodized, 5/8 in (15 mm) thick
- Compatible Guide Rails (Both): Festool, Makita, Powertec, and Triton (not compatible with Festool HK 55 Carpentry Saws including the FSK 250, FSK 420 and FSK 670; not compatible with Bosch or DeWalt tracks)
- Clamping Mechanism: Over center draw latch (304 stainless steel) with compensating spring; secured with M4x0.7-10 stainless steel socket head screws
- Accessory Mounting Holes: Tapped for M6 threads for compatibility with TSO Parallel Guide System and Angle Accessory
Documentation
- GRS-16 User Manual (PDF)
- GRS-16 Dimension Drawing (PDF)
Videos
Quick video walkthrough of the original GRS-16.
Special thanks to Eric at The Poplar Shop for his unexpected video review of the original GRS-16!
Guide Rail Square Comparison Table
GRS-16 Guide Rail Square |
GRS-16 PE Guide Rail Square |
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Best for… | Squaring your guide rail by referencing off the front edge of your workpiece | Squaring your guide rail by referencing off either the front or back edge of your workpiece |
Price | $179.95 | $189.95 |
Optional Add-ons | TSO Parallel Guide System TSO Limited Edition Systainer³ M 112 FoamPack Storage Insert for T-LOC Systainer & Systainer³ M 112 Angle Accessory |
Videos
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TSO Products GRS-16 Guide Rail Square. Quick review.
TSO Products sent me the GRS-16 guide rail square and asked me...
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New Release: GRS-16 Track Square
Damion Fauser, furniture designer/maker and Wood Review author...
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GRS-16 Track Saw Guide Rail Square Review
Looking for a quick and accurate way to make square cuts with ...
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One month review of my TSO Products GRS-16
I found thus company on the internet while searching for other...
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Testing the TSO GRS-16 PE Square with the FESTOOL FS1400 Guide Rail
The friendly people at TSO send me their TSO GRS-16 PE. I cut...
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GRS-16
An accessory tool for track saws that gives you perfect 90 deg...
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Track Saw Guide Rail Square - Presenting the GRS-16
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woodpeckers doesn't want you to see this video
I used to drool over all these red Woodpecker squares you see ...
Warranty & Returns
193 Reviews
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Must Have For Plunge Saw Users
High quality product for use with Makita, Festool, etc. plunge saws. Makes perpendicular cuts a snap and easy to use. A little pricey but worth it.
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Essential accessory for track saws
Perfect accessory for cutting sheet goods with track saw. Improves Festool MFT set-up time and accuracy. I probably should have opted for the GRS-16 PE as this allows you to use the tool at either end of the track. Be nice to see TSO offer buyers of one of these squares a discount on purchases of additional squares. They are not inexpensive - but save a lot of time and headache - especially if precision is really important.
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GRS-16 Guide Rail Square
Exactly what my Festool guide system was missing, I have several guide rail lengths and will probably be adding at least one more if not two to our shop. Best added product ever.
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Easy, quick and accurate!!
First off the build quality is great! This thing will last many many years and the time it will save you it will end up paying for itself and then some! This should definitely be the first on your list of accessories for track saws!
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GRS-16 Guide Rail Square
This guide is the perfect accessory to the FESTOOL saw guide rail. The guide makes alignment of the rail accurate and easy. It is very well constructed. I used it to set up my guide rail to cut 4 X 8 ONYX synthetic shower wall panels.