Monday, I need the three days this week!

Re: Monday, I need the three days this week!

Well, to be honest, I use a Forrest blade. I follow Forrest's recommended guidelines of having my fence out of parallel by .003" at all times. So maybe I'm not getting the question?

Tommy

Re: Monday, I need the three days this week!

Same here Tommy,

I set my fence up on my General 8 years ago, out by 1/64 at the far end... I have had no issues with that in my work...I still need to add that splitter I keep saying....I bought one a few weeks ago.

Take care,

Jim

hmmmm....

Don't know if this is what you're going for, but I have used the tablesaw to make deep coves (boy I could really use a shaper) in panels and my "fence" was a straight 8/4 stock on the diagonal ...

I know where you're headed but...

it's not what I was looking for. The thickness of a piece of writing paper off the fence at the rear of a tablesaw blade will prevent burning. Without a splitter (does anyone actually use one?) kick back is the risk you take--as you well know. We talked about the speed of kicked back work coming from a 10" blade in earlier trivia. The paper "trick" will work, but for this question you are assuming too much. Randy gets credit and a star for his forehead for the cove cut as I didn't think about that application for my question. For the answer I was expecting expand your arena a tad.

Re: Monday, I need the three days this week!

Actually to me this is always desirable. This is one of those religious issues with some people like whether or not to use water-based poly over oil stain, but I always set my fence a few thousandths out at the back. I just find thet there is less burning and saw marks from the back of the blade. It doesn't affect the cut otherwise.

Rob

Answer:

Some assumed that my trivia question was about a table saw. Actually I was thinking about a band saw. Even the best of band saws want to move the cut to one side or another of the board. To solve the problem it's much easier to set the fence caterwompus not parallel to the blade and take advantage of the tendency of the blade's tendency to wander from straight. Called "drift". To solve the problem place a line on the board and feed it through. Stay on the line. Half way through your board will to some degree not be parallel to the blade or table. Use this angle as your reference to set the fence.