Circular saws with transparent windows that extend within blade guard openings and cover fastening structures. The circular saws include a motor and an arbor configured to operatively attach a circular saw blade to the circular saw. The circular saws also include a blade guard. The blade guard includes a blade guard opening, which is positioned to permit a user of the circular saw to view a leading edge of the circular saw blade as the circular saw cuts a workpiece. The circular saws also include a transparent window, which extends within the blade guard opening, and a cover fastening structure, which is configured to selectively attach a splinter guard to the blade guard while the transparent window extends within the blade guard opening.

Circular saws are disclosed herein. The circular saws include a cutting assembly, a base plate, a pivot assembly, and a pivot bias mechanism. The cutting assembly includes a motor and an arbor. The base plate defines an assembly-facing side and an assembly-opposed side. The pivot assembly operatively attaches the cutting assembly to the base plate. The cutting assembly and the base plate are configured to operatively rotate, relative to one another and about a pivot axis of the pivot assembly, to selectively vary a region of the circular saw blade that extends on the assembly-opposed side of the base plate. The pivot bias mechanism is configured to apply a linear force between the cutting assembly and the base plate in a linear bias direction that urges the cutting assembly and the base plate in opposed directions along the pivot axis.

Circular saws are disclosed herein. The circular saws include a cutting assembly, a base plate, a pivot assembly, and a pivot bias mechanism. The cutting assembly includes a motor and an arbor. The base plate defines an assembly-facing side and an assembly-opposed side. The pivot assembly operatively attaches the cutting assembly to the base plate. The cutting assembly and the base plate are configured to operatively rotate, relative to one another and about a pivot axis of the pivot assembly, to selectively vary a region of the circular saw blade that extends on the assembly-opposed side of the base plate. The pivot bias mechanism is configured to apply a linear force between the cutting assembly and the base plate in a linear bias direction that urges the cutting assembly and the base plate in opposed directions along the pivot axis.

Track saws with self-adjusting rib-guide assemblies and methods of operating self-adjusting rib-guide assemblies of track saws are disclosed herein. The track saws include a motor, an arbor, and a base plate. The base plate defines an arbor-facing side and an arbor-opposed side. The base plate includes a rib-receiving channel and a self-adjusting rib-guide assembly. The self-adjusting rib-guide assembly at least partially defines the rib-receiving channel and is configured to automatically accommodate a range of raised rib transverse widths. The methods include positioning a raised elongate rib of the track within a rib-receiving channel of a base plate of the track saw. During the positioning, the methods also include establishing a contact force between the raised elongate rib and the self-adjusting rib-guide assembly. Responsive to the contact force, the methods further include moving at least a portion of the self-adjusting rib-guide assembly relative to a remainder of the track saw.