On 9/13/2019 2:42 PM, Puckdropper wrote:
Unquestionably Confused wrote:
On 9/13/2019 10:54 AM, Puckdropper wrote:
I don't have as much shop space any more, as my shop now has to share
duties with a garage.
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Those board buddies look like they'd work nicely. The RAS is my most
accurate tool, I'm sure it will give me accurate rips as well as
crosscuts.
They do work quite well. I bought mine to use with my cabinet saw which
I bought used. It was missing the guard and anti-kickback device. It
was also old and so had no riving knife.
Board Buddies mounted to the fence work very well.
My RAS is an old Craftsman (one of the models recalled for the lack of a
proper anti-kickback device). Define proper! I never had a problem
with it and always set the provided guard and kickback protection as
designed and while I experienced my share of kickbacks, the device
always nipped it in the bud and the board and saw would lock up. No
harm, no foul.
That's a great saw if you take the time to adjust it properly. Mine
stays true and once tweaked, the only time I bother to check it or
readjust is if I suffer one of the aforementioned "attempted" kickbacks.
Outfitted with Freud's best 10" rip blade, I ran a number of 12' 2 x
10's through it for a project. Didn't need the cut to be "planer
smooth" but that's what I got. I could have glued up any of those
boards just as if they'd come through planer.
When ripping, do people add a temporary work surface as well as fence?
When cutting to different lengths, the RAS blade will make shallow
grooves in the table, I just want to keep my table in great shape for as
long as possible.
Yes, you will get a gully in your top but I've never had a problem with
it. It still cross cuts quite well and, of course, the gully doesn't
even enter into the picture when you're ripping.
If it bothers you (and remember you're going to get a lot of grooves in
the table if you do angled cross cuts, just tack a piece of ΒΌ" plywood
to the top. When it gets too ugly, replace it and the underlying table
will be pristine.