ok, I reread your post and then figured you had them made before
deciding where to mount. Another case of "just in time" engineering. I
have the Jet also so it should not take any time to put one of these
together. Delivered my current project today so I should have time in
the next 3 weeks to get some of the shop upgrades done.

Let me (us) know how the blade works out and which one it is. I have a
lot of small logs that I would like to turn into turnings also.

BRuce

Ken Vaughn wrote:

BRuce wrote in message news:1070455474.882406@sj-nntpcache-3...

Hi Ken,

great looking fence, look like it goes on the short list :-) One thing
in your description confuses me, you have gone to extreme lengths to
insure that the t-track does not separate from the rails but there is
very little "up" force put on the fence if the rails are flush with the
table. Am I missing something? I have a t-track in my router table and
it sits 1/32 low in the table and I have never had any problem with the
track lifting.

BRuce


You are correct in that there should not be much lifting force with the
rails mounted flush with the table. When I started to make the rails, I was
thinking of dropping them down below the edge of the table, and was
concerned about the lifting force. I've been told that I tend to
over-engineer.

One of the reasons that I chose to flush mount the rails is that I plan to
make a simple sled for slicing small log sections and tree branches in
preparation for making turning blanks for my lathe. The rails add an extra
3 inches to the front to back table footprint (several inches left to right)
and should help with stability. I have an aggressive cut thicker blade on
order from Suffolk Machinery for this purpose.

Ken