"Jerome Meekings" wrote in message
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Leon wrote:



I guess another big advantage to using a 1/8" kerf blade is during lay
out
planning. It is pretty easy to figure an additional 1/8" here and an
additional 1/8" there when trying to determine if you can get so many
pieces
out of a piece of wood while ripping. The typical 3/32" kerf almost
requires the use of a calculator. 7/64" here and there and here again
would
be a royal PIA. I mean what does 1.25" plus 1.25" plus 1.25", plus
1.25"
plus 7/64" plus 7/64" plus 7/64" add up to? If the blade was 1/8" kerf
the
answer would be 5-3/8", yes that S4S 1 x 6 will work.
Fortunately my software takes that all into consideration but if you only
need to cut a few pieces from a single board out of a stack of various
width boards, let me stick with 1/8"

If you went metric it would do away with those problems and you could go
back to simple mental arithmetic what ever the kerf width. ;-)



How would 5.556 mm be easier to do in your head? ;~)