Mike Delyster
06-16-2019, 9:11 PM
I’ve had a Delta HD shaper in my shop for many years. Mine has the older style fence with no dust collection, which was pretty easy to add. A couple of magnets and some plywood and your good to go.
The fence itself though could be better. I’ve always liked the fact that I could add the Felder style safety bars to my bigger shapers and thought it would be nice to do something like that with the Delta. The small opening just didn’t make that possible.
Then last winter another member over on the Canadian site started a thread on upgrading his new to him shaper fence. Joe posted some great pictures which got me thinking.
I came up with this and I’ve been using it since the beginning of the year and I’m very happy with it.
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I used a piece of miter slot extrusion because I had a short piece in the shop. I just cut an angle piece off of it the size I needed. Then I cut a saw kerf in the bottom of my insert which the 1/8” aluminum fit into perfectly. This makes it easy to get the slot perfect to line the bar up with the face of your fence. It’s important that the bar align perfectly with the front face of the fence. Doing it with the saw kerf is easy because you can dial it in perfectly on some scrap material on the table saw.
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I made some solid inserts for this fence when I was making it, to work as a break through fence. In the last six months of using this I have only used one of the break through blanks.
The fence itself though could be better. I’ve always liked the fact that I could add the Felder style safety bars to my bigger shapers and thought it would be nice to do something like that with the Delta. The small opening just didn’t make that possible.
Then last winter another member over on the Canadian site started a thread on upgrading his new to him shaper fence. Joe posted some great pictures which got me thinking.
I came up with this and I’ve been using it since the beginning of the year and I’m very happy with it.
411451411452411453411454411455411456
I used a piece of miter slot extrusion because I had a short piece in the shop. I just cut an angle piece off of it the size I needed. Then I cut a saw kerf in the bottom of my insert which the 1/8” aluminum fit into perfectly. This makes it easy to get the slot perfect to line the bar up with the face of your fence. It’s important that the bar align perfectly with the front face of the fence. Doing it with the saw kerf is easy because you can dial it in perfectly on some scrap material on the table saw.
411457
I made some solid inserts for this fence when I was making it, to work as a break through fence. In the last six months of using this I have only used one of the break through blanks.