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All of the comments have persuaded me to buy some feather boards. I am beginning to get the impression that feather boards are almost a necessity for working safely.

Those excellent photos of feather board setups are certainly helpful to me, and your ominous warnings about accidents and kickback have caused me to seriously rethink my plan. In my prior plan, if the fences were set just far enough apart to apart to allow the board to slide through freely along its ...

I'm not having any issues with my current fence. My plan was to buy an additional fence to set up parallel to my first fence when ripping long boards. The saw blade would stick up between the two fences. My intention is for the second fence to act as an additional guide and constraint. I am not the ...

I'm new to this forum. There has been a used Shopsmith 10ER in my family since 1965 and I have been its only user. The time has come to get another rip fence, and I want to get a better fence than the original fence if possible. Can anybody tell me if the Mark V 500 rip fence will fit and work ...