Back to the OP's original query-
I built the bolt together fence when the article came out in Fine Woodworking magazine years ago, still have it stored around here somewhere.
It works great! I built mine with basically a pistol drill and a set of hand taps with the exception of the steel locking bar which I drilled on a friends drill press so it would be square. I used set screws instead of rivets to lock the handle in place. I never bothered to put a cursor or self stick tape to it being so used to setting the fence with a rule or tape.
I used the fence on three different saws over the years, and never had any problems with it. I plan on using it again when I can wrangle the space to set up another saw as I made mine to be able to rip 50". I could get a shorter piece of Unistrut, but i prefer to have the larger capacity.
Build it, you'll be very happy with it