Rick Potter
03-01-2017, 3:41 AM
I have had a set of Jessem TS guides for 6 months or so, and haven't used them much. I have two table saws, so I put the mounting kit on the Beis-type fence on my SawStop PCS, and also made a mounting setup on a Peachtree fence extrusion for my Unifence. This way I can use them on either saw. It was easy to mount, with good instructions, and the usual great Jessem quality.
I have the router table guides also and use them often, but I just have not used the table saw guides, until today. Confession...I ripped all the stock for these pieces a couple weeks ago and never thought of using the guides:confused:. When I did the initial ripping I encountered a lot of stress and burning, and the wood pinched so hard on the riving knife I could hardly push it through, and all the time, this idiot never thought of trying the guides.
Return to today: Anyway, I am in process of doing 18 cabinet doors in red oak and had already precut all 72 rail and stile pieces slightly oversize, and let them acclimate for weeks since they had a lot of stress in some of them. Jointed one side of each a couple days ago, and today I trimmed them all to 2 3/8" width. The pieces ranged from 8" long to 28".
I put the stock guides on the saw, and adjusted them per instructions, but I did not like how hard it was to shove the stock through. Since it was such a light rip I decided to try a little less pressure to see how they would work. Instead of setting the guide using the shoulder of the arm per instructions, I set the rollers on the stock, and pushed down with a little finger pressure using just one finger. They still held tight against the fence.
It worked very well and I alternated short pieces with longer ones, feeding one right after the other, four or five at a time, before having to stop to keep them from falling off the outfeed table. I only had to use a push stick when I stopped feeding to clear the table. I even stopped briefly a couple times and the stock just sat there, without burning.
I do not leave the guides on the saw because, to me, they are in the way when I am not using them, and it only takes a minute to set them up for use. I was not sure they were that useful until today when I was singing their praises.
I am glad I bought them. I am also glad I bought that Infinity Super General blade, it is a very nice all purpose model and cuts very cleanly.
I have the router table guides also and use them often, but I just have not used the table saw guides, until today. Confession...I ripped all the stock for these pieces a couple weeks ago and never thought of using the guides:confused:. When I did the initial ripping I encountered a lot of stress and burning, and the wood pinched so hard on the riving knife I could hardly push it through, and all the time, this idiot never thought of trying the guides.
Return to today: Anyway, I am in process of doing 18 cabinet doors in red oak and had already precut all 72 rail and stile pieces slightly oversize, and let them acclimate for weeks since they had a lot of stress in some of them. Jointed one side of each a couple days ago, and today I trimmed them all to 2 3/8" width. The pieces ranged from 8" long to 28".
I put the stock guides on the saw, and adjusted them per instructions, but I did not like how hard it was to shove the stock through. Since it was such a light rip I decided to try a little less pressure to see how they would work. Instead of setting the guide using the shoulder of the arm per instructions, I set the rollers on the stock, and pushed down with a little finger pressure using just one finger. They still held tight against the fence.
It worked very well and I alternated short pieces with longer ones, feeding one right after the other, four or five at a time, before having to stop to keep them from falling off the outfeed table. I only had to use a push stick when I stopped feeding to clear the table. I even stopped briefly a couple times and the stock just sat there, without burning.
I do not leave the guides on the saw because, to me, they are in the way when I am not using them, and it only takes a minute to set them up for use. I was not sure they were that useful until today when I was singing their praises.
I am glad I bought them. I am also glad I bought that Infinity Super General blade, it is a very nice all purpose model and cuts very cleanly.