Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

Buy Canadian. I have a King saw and I plan to get the Mule fence.

Ed

"Yves" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

"Yves" wrote in message

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

I have an Excalibur and it works really well. Very accurate up to 1/64" and
better for cutting tolerances. Some people don't like them because they
fasten down on both sides of the table saw as compare to a Biesemeyer which
clamps down only at the front. I can see advantages to both types. One thing
I like about my Excalibur is that it has to slots along the top of it for
use with jigs and T-nuts. Different saws have different options. Suggest you
go to a woodworking show or find dealers for both types and check them out
yourself before making a decision.

You're also going to have to decide how much money you want to spend on a
fence and guide. You could probably get away with spending as little as $200
(Canadian) or up $600 or more like the one on Lee Valley Tools website.

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...gory=1,41 080

I bought the Biesemeyer based on recommendations I'd seen here. It's
close enough to perfect for me. Haven't tried the others.

DonkeyHody



I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

In article ,
Yves wrote:
Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.

It's a toss-up between the Unimeyer, and the Beisalibur, and the Accu-RIp..

grin

Seriously, _Any_ of the major names are "good stuff", get the one that
'feels right' to you. Some _hands-on_ time, just playing with the adjustments,
not necessarily acctualy doing any cutting, is critical to making a good
decision.

If you do significant amount of work with 'jigs', etc, or plan to, take into
consideration _how_ they mount to the fence.

"Yves" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

I'm a biessemeyer fan myself. I've used a few of them and this one tops
them all imho.
SH

Thanks, all for your comments.

No one in my area carries Fences of different makes, I might have to wait
'till the woodshow in Ottawa... in november.

If I can't wait, Biesemeyer, General, LeeValley and Accusquare... I'll go
get a coin!!!
They are, between 245.00 to 500.00 (CA$)

At least, I removed Align a rip and Excalibur, to add LeeValley I knew about
this one but thought it was too expensive, and a friend just bought a
General 350 TS and is impressed with the native fence.



"Slowhand" I'm@work a écrit dans le message de
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"Yves" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

I'm a biessemeyer fan myself. I've used a few of them and this one tops
them all imho.
SH

Yves responds:

No one in my area carries Fences of different makes, I might have to wait
'till the woodshow in Ottawa... in november.

If I can't wait, Biesemeyer, General, LeeValley and Accusquare... I'll go
get a coin!!!
They are, between 245.00 to 500.00 (CA$)

At least, I removed Align a rip and Excalibur, to add LeeValley I knew about
this one but thought it was too expensive, and a friend just bought a
General 350 TS and is impressed with the native fence.

Native fence? I'm not sure I want to know how that thing is dressed!

The fence you call the Lee Valley is the HTC. I did a review of fences that
popped up not too long ago in Woodworker's Journal. All the fences had
something going for them, but, IMO, the HTC was the best Biesemeyer clone
available. And it has improvements over the Biese itself.

Nice to see Rob agrees with me.

Charlie Self
"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers." H. L. Mencken

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:21:13 -0400, "Yves"
wrote:

Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

take a look here.
http://www.biesemeyer.com/specials/index.htm

skeez

Incra is AWESOME!!!!!!

I love mine. Have it on a Jet Contractor saw and it's a fantastic combination!!!

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:23:50 GMT, "Yves" wrote:

Thanks, all for your comments.

No one in my area carries Fences of different makes, I might have to wait
'till the woodshow in Ottawa... in november.

If I can't wait, Biesemeyer, General, LeeValley and Accusquare... I'll go
get a coin!!!
They are, between 245.00 to 500.00 (CA$)

At least, I removed Align a rip and Excalibur, to add LeeValley I knew about
this one but thought it was too expensive, and a friend just bought a
General 350 TS and is impressed with the native fence.

Whet I did was get a fence from biesemeyer from their scratch-n-dent
page and make the rails from locally purchased steel. total cost was
about $150. US.

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:21:13 -0400, "Yves"
wrote:

Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

My PM66 came with a Biesemeyer fence and I love it. I've made several
jigs that fit over the top of it. It removes easy and adjustments
are accurate. I really like the locking mechanism.

Hi,

Finally I went to a tools store that carries, Biesemeyer, General, Unifence
(delta) and King.

And I decided to go with the General, it's the one that had the same
feeling, since all of them appear to have the same precision.

And it's made here in Quebec!!!

Thanks.

"Phisherman" a écrit dans le message de
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:21:13 -0400, "Yves"
wrote:

Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

My PM66 came with a Biesemeyer fence and I love it. I've made several
jigs that fit over the top of it. It removes easy and adjustments
are accurate. I really like the locking mechanism.

Vega is a better one.

"Yves" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Finally I went to a tools store that carries, Biesemeyer, General,
Unifence
(delta) and King.

And I decided to go with the General, it's the one that had the same
feeling, since all of them appear to have the same precision.

And it's made here in Quebec!!!

Thanks.

"Phisherman" a écrit dans le message de
...
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:21:13 -0400, "Yves"
wrote:

Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though
of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

My PM66 came with a Biesemeyer fence and I love it. I've made several
jigs that fit over the top of it. It removes easy and adjustments
are accurate. I really like the locking mechanism.

"Yves" wrote in message ...
Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

One concern I don't see mentioned much is how well the fence stays
parallel to the blade at different positions on the rail. Seems to me
that the fence will only be as consistently parallel as the rail is
straight, and very small deviances at the rail would seem to be
magnified at the end of the fence. Can it be assumed that the
Biesemeyer rail is straight enough? Are tolerances listed somewhere
for this stuff?

Get a Vega. You won't be sorry.

"ap" wrote in message
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"Yves" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

One concern I don't see mentioned much is how well the fence stays
parallel to the blade at different positions on the rail. Seems to me
that the fence will only be as consistently parallel as the rail is
straight, and very small deviances at the rail would seem to be
magnified at the end of the fence. Can it be assumed that the
Biesemeyer rail is straight enough? Are tolerances listed somewhere
for this stuff?

On 6 Sep 2004 07:59:08 -0700, (ap) wrote:

"Yves" wrote in message ...
Hi,

I'm planning the purchase of a new fence for my old King TS, I though of
Accusquare, but there are quite a few systems out there.

Align a Rip,
Biesemeyer,
Excalibur,

Any comments, and how does Accusquare compare to the others.


Thanks.

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I have had a Biesmeyer on my saw for almost 15 years ... and I love
it.

Just rock solid ... plus I can not remember when i had to re set the
thing...IF EVER...

I can not compare the newer clones of the Biesmeyer because honestly I
stopped looking at fences the day I mounted mine...just no need to
replace a great fence with anything else...

It does lack a micro adjustment ...but again I see no need for that
anyway...

Bob Griffiths `

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 15:16:06 GMT, "Ace" wrote:

Get a Vega. You won't be sorry.


No complaints with my Biesmeyer. I've used it for over 10 years and
it is very accurate.