Leon
2024-08-06 14:58:57 UTC
I recently added the Wixey table saw digital scale to my rip fence.
I love it. Nice to see a digital decimal and fraction read out to
verify the reading on the fence scale.
BUT also it is now to easy to accurately place the rip fence "x"
distance from a stacked dado set. Especially helpful on a left tilt
saw. The blades stack to the right from the arbor flange so the scale
on the rip fence rail is no longer accurate. But slide the fence up
next to the blade and zero out the Wixey and you can now accurately
place the fence where you want. I use to use steel rules end on end to
measure from the tooth of the stacked dado to the fence. A real PIA
when cutting dado's across a panel 24+" from an end. The current
cabinets that I am working on required 6 dado cuts across the width of
the side panels timed 4. They all came out perfectly. When the 3
fixed shelves fit into dado's on the side panels and all of that fits
into grooves and dados on the front and back face frames, all in one
glue up, it has to be perfect.
I love it. Nice to see a digital decimal and fraction read out to
verify the reading on the fence scale.
BUT also it is now to easy to accurately place the rip fence "x"
distance from a stacked dado set. Especially helpful on a left tilt
saw. The blades stack to the right from the arbor flange so the scale
on the rip fence rail is no longer accurate. But slide the fence up
next to the blade and zero out the Wixey and you can now accurately
place the fence where you want. I use to use steel rules end on end to
measure from the tooth of the stacked dado to the fence. A real PIA
when cutting dado's across a panel 24+" from an end. The current
cabinets that I am working on required 6 dado cuts across the width of
the side panels timed 4. They all came out perfectly. When the 3
fixed shelves fit into dado's on the side panels and all of that fits
into grooves and dados on the front and back face frames, all in one
glue up, it has to be perfect.