Paul B. Cresti
02-06-2007, 11:01 PM
Hello all. It has been a while since my last installment for European Format Sliding Table Saws (EFSTS) been real busy here and plus I took a little vacation ;). Some of you that have followed my past posts hopefully remember some of what I have already talked about....for all the new members or the ones that just plain forgot :eek: just check the archives or my posts for the lasy 9 installments. Well here it goes....pull up a chair, grab your coffee enjoy......
This use for my EFSTS I kind of stumbled upon by sheer dumb luck and maybe just a bit of head scratching (now i know where all my hair went to). I needed to cut some very odd angles on some stock and each cut was at no particular angle. I was fitting some pieces in a very special piece I was making and each part was marked as I was holding it in place. Now at this point I sold my Festool saw because I just did not use it due to the fact that I have been avoiding field installations like the plague plus after all I do have a slider...right? Well one of the best features of a guided saw system is the ability to cut right to a line at any crazy angle you can come up with.
Soooo here I am trying to figure out how to quickly cut these odd one off angles without doing any measurement at all. Then all of a sudden...whamo...it hit me like a brick wall. I said to myself, "self there has got to be a way to do this with this slider of mine, hey maybe if I can figure out how to mark where my cut line is". This is what I came up with
In the first picture you will see (for demonstration purposes of course) the lowly culprit with a pencil mark across it at no particular angle.
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In the next three pictures you will see my bright idea of using a scrap piece of none other than Luan. I clamp it to my slider via the back (closest to me clamp) but let it hang over the slider in the path of the blade. You will notice in the close up picture the black plastic piece on the end of the crosscut fence...this is a sacrificial zero clearance end piece, it is exactly where the blade cuts.
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The end result you will see in this picture is what happens after I slide the Luan past the blade. I now know exactly where the blade will cut. This is my edge guide!
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continued in next post......
This use for my EFSTS I kind of stumbled upon by sheer dumb luck and maybe just a bit of head scratching (now i know where all my hair went to). I needed to cut some very odd angles on some stock and each cut was at no particular angle. I was fitting some pieces in a very special piece I was making and each part was marked as I was holding it in place. Now at this point I sold my Festool saw because I just did not use it due to the fact that I have been avoiding field installations like the plague plus after all I do have a slider...right? Well one of the best features of a guided saw system is the ability to cut right to a line at any crazy angle you can come up with.
Soooo here I am trying to figure out how to quickly cut these odd one off angles without doing any measurement at all. Then all of a sudden...whamo...it hit me like a brick wall. I said to myself, "self there has got to be a way to do this with this slider of mine, hey maybe if I can figure out how to mark where my cut line is". This is what I came up with
In the first picture you will see (for demonstration purposes of course) the lowly culprit with a pencil mark across it at no particular angle.
57255
In the next three pictures you will see my bright idea of using a scrap piece of none other than Luan. I clamp it to my slider via the back (closest to me clamp) but let it hang over the slider in the path of the blade. You will notice in the close up picture the black plastic piece on the end of the crosscut fence...this is a sacrificial zero clearance end piece, it is exactly where the blade cuts.
572585725757256
The end result you will see in this picture is what happens after I slide the Luan past the blade. I now know exactly where the blade will cut. This is my edge guide!
57259
continued in next post......