Leon wrote:


I will say that with enough repeated passes most anything will cause a
wear pattern on cast iron. I have those all over the place running
parallel to the blade and perpendicular to the blade. Parallel marks
from the miter gauges/sleds/wood. Perpendicular marks from the fence
support pad that slides across the back of the TS top, that is the low
friction plastic stuff. Anyway the wear marks are only visible you
certainly can't feel them nor are they more susceptible to rust.

What so many of these comments clearly miss is that most of those
"scratches" are not in the base material itself, but in the finish of the
base material. They are scratches in the sheen (shean?), and not noteworthy
scratches in the base material. Sometimes it seems there is way too much
focus on stuff that just does not matter...

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-Mike-