James Nugnes
03-02-2015, 1:41 PM
Just wondering what people here think about the router jig, edge guide and guide stop options open to them.
I was initially looking at just the Festool options to use with a Festool router. But it takes the Guide Stop and the Edge Guide plus a rail of some length just to get off the starting line and for something like an OF2000 you are at a little over $300.00 for middling guide accuracy and you are not cutting any arcs yet with that set up.
However while MIcroFence gets you an edge guide, a guide stop and cutting arcs and circles their set up will cost you about $500.00 to do that. measurement accuracy appears to be better and their Circle Jig at least in the videos looks like it is light years ahead of the circle jigs that you can buy out there. I am impressed with that for a number of reasons, not the least of which, you can get you and your router in a bunch of trouble real fast with a circle jig with a bunch of slop in it and I don't mean just a ruined workpiece either.
While the rail end of the MicroFence system is way down the list as a component of cost, I do wish it was more of a rail and less of a clamp. Yes you can use the Festool rail with all of this MicroFence stuff but now you just added another $50 to your tally as the Festool rail is a bit pricy for what it is. The rail is just the one piece that you might feel comfortable ripping out of the MIcroFence System substituting the Festool rail for it. Other than that, since MIcrofence is pretty much an integrated system, if you want to cut arcs, get an edge guide and a guide stop then trying to pull other components out of the Microfence System substituting other stuff for it probably does not make much sense.
Is there some alternative that sits in the middle of a MicroFence System and picking up the Festool pieces plus a circle jig? Maybe some company that is trying to do what MicroFence is trying to do for routers, maybe with slightly less accuracy but also less cost? I would think that if there was some alternative between the Festool edge guide and guide stop stuff and the MicroFence System it should be plenty accurate because the Festool stuff is not bad while the MicroFence stuff seems awesome.
- So for those that have used it does the MicroFence System works like it appears....awesome
- Does the M/F Contractor Clamp which for MicroFence is the rail part of the system give you everything you expect of a rail for a edge guide, guide stop system or do you find it lacking?
- Is there something for handheld routers that sits between the Festool edge guide, and guide stop stuff and the MicroFence System?
I was initially looking at just the Festool options to use with a Festool router. But it takes the Guide Stop and the Edge Guide plus a rail of some length just to get off the starting line and for something like an OF2000 you are at a little over $300.00 for middling guide accuracy and you are not cutting any arcs yet with that set up.
However while MIcroFence gets you an edge guide, a guide stop and cutting arcs and circles their set up will cost you about $500.00 to do that. measurement accuracy appears to be better and their Circle Jig at least in the videos looks like it is light years ahead of the circle jigs that you can buy out there. I am impressed with that for a number of reasons, not the least of which, you can get you and your router in a bunch of trouble real fast with a circle jig with a bunch of slop in it and I don't mean just a ruined workpiece either.
While the rail end of the MicroFence system is way down the list as a component of cost, I do wish it was more of a rail and less of a clamp. Yes you can use the Festool rail with all of this MicroFence stuff but now you just added another $50 to your tally as the Festool rail is a bit pricy for what it is. The rail is just the one piece that you might feel comfortable ripping out of the MIcroFence System substituting the Festool rail for it. Other than that, since MIcrofence is pretty much an integrated system, if you want to cut arcs, get an edge guide and a guide stop then trying to pull other components out of the Microfence System substituting other stuff for it probably does not make much sense.
Is there some alternative that sits in the middle of a MicroFence System and picking up the Festool pieces plus a circle jig? Maybe some company that is trying to do what MicroFence is trying to do for routers, maybe with slightly less accuracy but also less cost? I would think that if there was some alternative between the Festool edge guide and guide stop stuff and the MicroFence System it should be plenty accurate because the Festool stuff is not bad while the MicroFence stuff seems awesome.
- So for those that have used it does the MicroFence System works like it appears....awesome
- Does the M/F Contractor Clamp which for MicroFence is the rail part of the system give you everything you expect of a rail for a edge guide, guide stop system or do you find it lacking?
- Is there something for handheld routers that sits between the Festool edge guide, and guide stop stuff and the MicroFence System?