On 1/19/2018 6:55 AM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
What do you think of this setup tool? Scroll to the bottom of the page for a video.

http://www.chipsfly.com/product/35-572.html



I use a digital caliper for setting up my dado set width, measuring
plywood thickness for groves, and for measuring resulting thickness
after running material through my planer or drum sander.

I find that test cutting yields the best results when setting up the
router bit depth and setting TS blade height. I actually will measure
the results vs. tying to set the machine to an exact specific setting
before cutting.

The TS blade height is the hard one to measure. Which tooth is the
highest and is it at its maximum height when you take the measurement?
Same with the router and router table. With circular cutting tools it
is difficult to determine where to measure exactly, especially when you
get into measuring thousand's of an inch.

The measuring tool looks to be a good price and probably pretty accurate
but do you know exactly where to place it and where in the rotation of a
blade the tooth should be? Will that tooth be the one that cuts the
deepest or will it be the tooth 5 spaces away? Again, I like to measure
the results on test scraps vs. trying to set the machine up to be cut
perfectly the first time. I think you will find if you try to set up
the machine with this tool that you will end up making adjustments after
checking the results.

Pretty much the same goes with setting a rip fence to be parallel to the
blade. This is theoretically the idea setting for "Perfect" wood. But
who has perfect wood. Once again, when I adjust my rip fence to the
blade, I look for results/smoothness of cut on the wood.

I'm absolutely not saying that you should not try to be as accurate as
you can with your measurements, you absolutely want to be accurate. I'm
just saying that results of a set up are are more important than
accuracy of the set up. Remember, wood is not perfect.