Richard Kagen
12-15-2006, 9:02 AM
I am slowly building my shop and skills from the unfortunate postion of never having any friends or family with any woodworking experience, so I am very happy to have found SMC.
Question #1, I have a new right hand tilt Delta TS. I keep the rip fence (Beisemyer which is awsome!!!) to the right of the blade (WWII which is even awsome-er) and ripping is great. If I want to rip a bevel cut, why would I not move the fence to the left of the blade and then have a "tilt away from fence, left tilt" thing going on. There must be a reason as so much time, $ and energy goes into left tilt saws.
#2 Attaching things to the Beisemyer fence. I had a great set up for board buddies, tall fence down feather boards. etc on my old Jet fence. I drilled two holes in the top of the fence and inserted a peice of oak with embedded "T" nuts inside the extrusion, attaching the oak to the inside top with foam tape. This allowed me to attach anything I wanted with a couple of cap screws. Before I take the drill to my shiny new Beisemyer (ouch) and repeat this set up, any other ideas? Anyone try the GripTite (http://www.grip-tite.com/sub%20fence%20clamp.html) clamps? I question how well these would work for hold downs, would they slip up?
#3 I tend to be making lots of big things (14' x 8' set of built in book cases last year and a built in alcove desk now) using sheet goods, I plan on building a panel cut off sled with a front fence so I can easily cross cut panels wider than the front of my table. I also need an outfeed table. For the outfeed table, my thoughts were to build a standalone table on wheels, say 38" deep x 40" wide and align/attach it to the back of my saw when I need it. I was thinking about a flip top, so it could server multiple purposes. Any thoughts before I start tinkering?
Question #1, I have a new right hand tilt Delta TS. I keep the rip fence (Beisemyer which is awsome!!!) to the right of the blade (WWII which is even awsome-er) and ripping is great. If I want to rip a bevel cut, why would I not move the fence to the left of the blade and then have a "tilt away from fence, left tilt" thing going on. There must be a reason as so much time, $ and energy goes into left tilt saws.
#2 Attaching things to the Beisemyer fence. I had a great set up for board buddies, tall fence down feather boards. etc on my old Jet fence. I drilled two holes in the top of the fence and inserted a peice of oak with embedded "T" nuts inside the extrusion, attaching the oak to the inside top with foam tape. This allowed me to attach anything I wanted with a couple of cap screws. Before I take the drill to my shiny new Beisemyer (ouch) and repeat this set up, any other ideas? Anyone try the GripTite (http://www.grip-tite.com/sub%20fence%20clamp.html) clamps? I question how well these would work for hold downs, would they slip up?
#3 I tend to be making lots of big things (14' x 8' set of built in book cases last year and a built in alcove desk now) using sheet goods, I plan on building a panel cut off sled with a front fence so I can easily cross cut panels wider than the front of my table. I also need an outfeed table. For the outfeed table, my thoughts were to build a standalone table on wheels, say 38" deep x 40" wide and align/attach it to the back of my saw when I need it. I was thinking about a flip top, so it could server multiple purposes. Any thoughts before I start tinkering?