The original orange one is not impressive. After close to a year of tolerating it, I'm ready for a replacement, but still no standouts for aftermarket. Biggest question for those with a slider, does (or should?) the hood/guard reach back enough to cover the scoring blade, or am I severely limiting my options by thinking it should be large enough to do so?
In consideration:
Harvey - absolutely beautiful, but seems too small for even the 12" blade, never mind the scorer
Grizzly- Shop Fox with the larger bubble shaped guard seems okay - any users of it?
Grizzly - has an odd looking one they claim comes from Germany, limited to stock on hand. Looks like the one on a Martin, as well as the offerings in another thread (about the jointer guards) from the German Sitec/Panhans group. https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread....-jointer-guard
Grizzly - has a Euro-style sliding saw with a good looking over-arm setup - checked out buying it as a full on "replacement part" and sure enough, can be done, but closer to $1,300 and indication that it's backordered. In that case, I probably should just go back to my SCM dealer to check on options straight from them...
Some great threads here recently on this topic discussed homemade units hung from the ceiling, but in my shop that's 16 feet. Seems an over-arm is the better direction in this case, so hope to hear from others with slider and over arm setup.
Again, at very least, am I off-base thinking it should cover the scoring blade?
jeff