"Woodchuck34" wrote in message
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Should have been more clear on the safety issue of the 30" vs. the 52".
We were talking about making tall cabinets and being able to trim the
excess of a long side board. He said that its not safe to crosscut a
piece that is much longer than it is wide, which is correct, but we
didn't talk about dados or consider the use of that same fence for the
router table. Probably not worth if for the router, since its really
in a set position.


A saw with wider rip capacity does not make you do unsafe cuts. You can
just as easily try the same unsafe cut on a 30" capacity fence. If you put
your hand down on a spinning blade, that is unsafe also. The rip capacity
has nothing to do with how safe a saw is.