The slider

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Dave Bair

Here, sliders are small hamburgers.

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Joe shelton

Naw, man, sliders are breaking pitches that both drop and move sideways...

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Dick Coers

I'm just the opposite. I think it's interesting that so many discuss sliders on the other forums. I owned a short 5' stroke Griggio when I ran my business, and have an old Minimax combination machine in my basement shop now. Really the only reason I wanted either was because of the scoring blade. What I missed the most on them is the miter gage slots in the table top. Neither of my machines had or have a super accurate way to relocated the fence after taking it off to rip. Just different approaches to woodworking.

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NickinMass

I have a Rojek slider that I bought partly because it was a bargain (the US distributor was trying out a new sales channel and I got lucky) and also for the scoring blade. I was using a lot of sheet goods at the time and the scoring blade is a nice thing. There are stops on my sliding table that set the fence perpendicular to the blade (they seem to be doing the job whenever I check), but I agree that it would be nice to have a miter slot for various jigs. The one thing I don't like is that I have to take the fence off the sliding table when I'm doing a rip cut with more than an inch or two of material to the left of the blade.

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John in NM

Just different approaches.

I worked for a shop that had a rarely used Robland combo machine. Owner bought it for quick and easy tenon cutting, but I was the only one who used it. Most of the guys had their own preferred methods, this was just another option.

Once set up correctly it was a nice machine, but it was a bit difficult to re-align if the table was out of kilter. It would have been a better choice for a shop that cut many more tenons than we did.

I also occasionally used it for large crosscuts, but these days I reach for the Festool and prefer doing it that way.

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William Duffield

Where I grew up, a slider is a kind of terrapin.

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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

I'm just the opposite. I think it's interesting that so many discuss sliders on the other forums. I owned a short 5' stroke Griggio when I ran my business, and have an old Minimax combination machine in my basement shop now. Really the only reason I wanted either was because of the scoring blade. What I missed the most on them is the miter gage slots in the table top. Neither of my machines had or have a super accurate way to relocated the fence after taking it off to rip. Just different approaches to woodworking.

Interesting comments. I imagine that we look at our sliders very differently. I visit a few fori, and SawMill Creek is the only one which where there appear to be several members with sliders. There has been a gradual, now increasing, interest in these saws over the past few years. About 4 years ago I was looking to upgrade my Taiwanese contractor saw and intended to purchase a Sawstop Professional 36". At that point I began to be aware of the advantages of a slider. I had the opportunity to examine the K3 and SS alongside one another. The SS is a great tablesaw, and I am sure I would have been happy had I purchased one. However, having the K3, I would not change.

Using a scoring blade suggests that you were working with laminates and, likely, large panels. Yes? Wanting a mitre gauge slot is beyond me. Actually, the K3 has one in the wagon, and I use that to hold a range of accessories, but that is not what you mean. Why would you want a mitre slot?

Regards from Perth

Derek

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Jim Matthews

Mention of this and watching Izzy Swan adapt a slider to a bandsaw lead me to DIY one for my Bandsaw. I'm shocked at how quickly stock can be ripped to accurate widths, even without a Frantz (^2) jigamathang.

I use handsaws for joinery, but a bandsaw really speeds up stock prep.


Sliding table after Izzy Swan