My usable piece is always between blade and fence right of the blade, that's
the dimension you set your fence for usually. There are of course
circumstances, such as tilted blade, when the piece you want will end up on
the left side, but for me that is a rarity. On my delta contractors saw
fence settings go to right of the blade, if your saw is tuned properly, what
you set is what you cut. Why make it any more difficult than that?
"mac davis" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:20:12 GMT, max wrote:

Ok, in a post a month or so ago I picked out of another topic that people
rip with the useable piece to the left of the blade. This doesn't make
sense
to me. I have a $400 fence tweaked to be accurate, align the saw to death
so
there is no burning, machined a custom splitter and use magnetic hold
downs.
To rip multiple pieces of the same width I adjust the fence, and run the
piece until I have as many pieces as I need. To make more than one with
the
good piece on the left, I would have to move the fence each time and I
doubt
I could get the pieces critically accurate.
So... Which side of the fence do you rip on?
max

left? right?

how about good part of the stock (finished dimension?) between fence and
blade
or not between fence and blade...

hell, that's just as confusing!

I was taught that the piece you're "saving" goes up against the fence and
the
"waste" piece goes on the side of the blade away from the fence..
I do reverse this if the piece I'm cutting is too thin to (IMO) safely cut
between the fence and blade, especially if I only need one cut..


mac

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