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Default Bandsaw Resawing: Fence Type?

yet. Should I? What advantages does it offer over the flat fence?


The ability to neutralize the "lead" of the blade by changing the
direction of feed.

Don't need a fence at all really. Pivot board works great.


'Splain "pivot board' ... that's a new term to me. Is it another name for
the rounded thingy that gives you a pivot point as you try to follow a
line?

Bill


That is almost exactly what it is, Bill, just with a point rather than a
radius to contact the wood to be resawn.

The pivot board being this----

and the other type of fence is this-----)

Easy, no?

Luck

Mike