"Leon" wrote in message
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"GarageWoodworks" wrote in message
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I can have mine dialed with a dial indicator before your last "trial
cuts" saw dust hits the floor.

This is what you keep missing Leon, 'SPEED', not just accuracy.

I kinda mixed up my answer. I DO NOT make trial cuts to check a fence or
miter gauge setting, I make trial cuts only when "setting up/tuning " the
saw or fence. No trial cuts necessary except for those occasions, as few
and far in between as they seem to be. When working on a project I use an
electronic tilt box to set up bevel angles but miters and fence settings
are set strictly by the degree and measurement marks on the tool.


Now having said that, IIRC you have a Olson miter gauge.... I would use
something to verify that tool each time I changed a setting. I had one,
acutally had 3 of them and could never rely on it/them holding a setting
when the fence was adjusted to a 45 degree setting with the telescoping
angle adjustment bar. There was too much play in all 3 units that cause
the gence angle to deviate by as much as 1 degree. I could actually grab
the fence and wiggle it back and forth. With the fence at 45 in the other
dirrection it was rock solid.


May be Osbourne It has been about 8 years since I had one. ;~)