Table Alignment Tool New

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 2:33 pm

To me, anaway. Got email from Woodpecker via Highland Hardware I believe, announcing a "new" tool to help in checking saw table (or other) alignment to blade, and fence to, etc.

It's a clever twist to an old open question, methinks, and eminently copy-able for personal use. Uses rods of two sizes to center the gauge in the miter slot for deviation free (wish we could get that in the Boy Scouts, say) readings as one moves from front to rear of the blade (reference).

Solves all kinds of nagging little "oops's" trying to get a stable and sure reading, seems to me. I gotta try this here and see- should be a super easy test...

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 3:01 pm

keakap wrote:To me, anaway. Got email from Woodpecker via Highland Hardware I believe, announcing a "new" tool to help in checking saw table (or other) alignment to blade, and fence to, etc.

It's a clever twist to an old open question, methinks, and eminently copy-able for personal use. Uses rods of two sizes to center the gauge in the miter slot for deviation free (wish we could get that in the Boy Scouts, say) readings as one moves from front to rear of the blade (reference).

Solves all kinds of nagging little "oops's" trying to get a stable and sure reading, seems to me. I gotta try this here and see- should be a super easy test...

Is this the new tool that you are talking about?

If it is, are you really thinking about that kind of money to get rid of the slop in your miter bar? I am much too frugal for that.

debrown · Post by **debrown** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 8:54 am

I also "built" on similar to the theirs. I already had a dial indicator, and the Shopsmith Miter gauge. I found at HF a dial indicator magnetic base and combined them all together. With a little initial fiddling, the system works great, especially since I only need it once or twice a year.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 9:13 am

debrown wrote:I also "built" on similar to the theirs. I already had a dial indicator, and the Shopsmith Miter gauge. I found at HF a dial indicator magnetic base and combined them all together. With a little initial fiddling, the system works great, especially since I only need it once or twice a year.

This one looks as though it would do the trick just as well and costs $0.00 + a dial indicator.

That non-standard miter slot sure gets a lot of attention.

BuckeyeDennis · Post by **BuckeyeDennis** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 11:13 pm

[quote="dusty"]This one looks as though it would do the trick just as well and costs $0.00 + a dial indicator.

Yup. I built one of those, and it works swell. I tweaked it a bit -- left the back side vertical for a positive registration surface, and increased the angle on the front side to get about the same amount of wedge effect.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 12:32 am

BuckeyeDennis wrote:
dusty wrote:This one looks as though it would do the trick just as well and costs $0.00 + a dial indicator.

Yup. I built one of those, and it works swell. I tweaked it a bit -- left the back side vertical for a positive registration surface, and increased the angle on the front side to get about the same amount of wedge effect.

My SS tool kit and miter gauge still work as well as they ever did!:rolleyes: No extra cost or time.

keakap · Post by **keakap** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:52 pm

dusty wrote:Is this the new tool that you are talking about?

If it is, are you really thinking about that kind of money to get rid of the slop in your miter bar? I am much too frugal for that.

Yes, that is the one. [But in my text new was in quotation marks, for a reason.] Looks perty, all new and shiny and all. But perty costs, as with most things. Hence my comment "eminently copy-able for personal use". As in, my version to 'try here' will consist of pieces of old scrap hardwood dowels that be layin around...[total cost, aka "that kind of money", $0.0. I guess I'm just not clear enough.]

'tis the idea ...