Originally Posted by
Grant Wilkinson
I want to thank both of you again. I'm really not trying to be stubborn here. It just comes across that way.
I'm sitting here with pieces of paper representing saw blades, miter slots, miter gauges and chunks of wood. At some point, the light bulb will come on and I'll get it. The damn thing is that I do quite a bit of flat work. It simply has never occurred to me that having the saw blade anything but parallel to the miter slot is no big deal, at least when it comes to the accuracy of the angle of the cut.
Interestingly, the author of the video that started all this discussion is mistaken. He says that his method of dialing in a miter gauge depends on the miter slot and the blade being parallel.
Take care, and thanks for the discussion.