pieceseeker wrote:...
The whole reason I jumped into this thread is because I have just a little bit of reservations yet on the accuracy of the SS. ... I guess I'm sorta looking for reasonable comparisons to dedicated table saws like a PM or Uni. I aspire to build fine furniture some day. Not a lot of furniture, but what I do build, I want to build right. I want joints and tops to be precise, square, flat and strong.
I do have a lot of patience and I like a job well done. I always say any professional looking job is all in the details.
Okay, here comes the $0.012 (adjusted for inflation):
The SS can deliver all the accuracy you can use, to deliver the best you can imagine. No question in my mind.
But that's a loaded 'can' there. It is impossible to make a fair comparison to another machine. The Mark V is unique. Please understand "unique": unique is, well, unique]single[/I].
The MV was not made to be a dedicated anything. If one insists on trying to make a comparison with such a thing one is doomed to disappointment. But that doesn't necessarily mean it is worse, less than, not as good as or, for that matter, better than a dedicated (fill in the blank).
Because it's, well, unique.
For instance, a brief perusal of the instruction sheet on a nice
Dedicated
Table
Saw will not reveal references to adding connector tubes and Auxiliary tables and tying them (en masse) to your Extension table and cinching them down (a matter of a minute er two onct yer used to it) to produce a work platform as rigid as one can possibly require for extrEEme accuracy and repeatability.
But that is indeed possible in the case w/ MV.
Does this make the MV
less than the dedicated machine?
No. (Just try setting up the DTS into Drill Press or Latha mode in less than 5 or 6 minutes!)
Also consider, the MV was meant to have that stuff attached to it in Table Saw mode. That is neither oops, accident or work-around. You might say that is the "default" position, where a quick rip or few can be done, and well, on just the bare Main table (like a DTS)-- a
bonus!
I mean, to be fair, one shouldn't any more try to crosscut a 10 foot 2x8 with a DTS on free-rolling caster base than with a MV in full (faux) DTS mode, n'est pas?
Others have mentioned it before- {it would be hard to have mentioned it in the future, no?} the short time spent preparing / configuring for an operation can also be used mentally reviewing one's plan of attack (or defense!), and is not only beneficial but pleasant.
Note: when you think of configuring for a cut, think of what makes that DTS convenient
and accurate- all of its parts are already rigidly tied together (motor to the base, 'table' to the base, extensions to the table and base, yada yada- should the MV do less?)
End of Spiel.
except, this is 'imho', of course
Mark V 520, Power-Pro!; Speed Reducer; B/S; Jointer; ShopMate DCS; SS Tenon Master; Rip-Strate; Incra; BCTW; DW734; var. SS sanding systems; Wood River;
Exceptional is right! Amazing projects he's done.
