In article , charliebATaccesscomDOTcom wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:

In article , charliebATaccesscomDOTcom wrote:
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The General has the added feature of a tilting head
and a pivoting fence - handy if you want to do angled
mortises - chairs and splayed leg tables etc..

I've been wondering about that... does the fence pivot a full ninety degrees?
Seems to me it would have to, in order for the tilting head to do any good,
but I seem to recall, the one time that I looked at this unit (over a year
ago) that the fence pivot was limited to about 60 degrees.

The head pivots on the vertical axis left/right +/- 30 degrees and the
fence pivots on the horizontal axis to +30 degrees. Not sure why the
fence would have to pivot a full 90 degrees. For that you could just
clamp a piece of squared MDF or wood.

OK, maybe I'm being dense here... but I don't see how the tilting head can be
of any use at all in cutting an angled mortise in a chair leg, given that the
head tilts in the left-right plane. With the long axis of the leg running
left-right, the head would need to tilt in the fore-aft plane to cut an angled
mortise. And if you clamp a squared piece of MDF to align the leg in the
fore-aft direction, how the heck do you clamp the leg?

Like I said, maybe I'm being dense, but I just don't see how it helps in
making a chair to have the mortise head tilt from left to right, unless you
can pivot the fence and clamping mechanism a full 90 degrees to put the leg
into the fore-aft direction.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

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