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Has Biesemeyer gone completely to hell?
I am unlurking to ask a serious question. Has Biesemeyer gone completely
to hell? I've been intending to upgrade my TS fence to a Biesemeyer for a few years. Every time I use someone's saw with a Bies fence, I'm reminded that my fence is not strong enough. I love their old fences. So it was natural that I'd try Biesemeyer first when I decided to build a quickie, small miter saw station. I know I should have built the whole thing from scratch, but when I was tempted by "78-802 Biesemeyer Miter Saw Table System" I decided it would be nice to have a ready made set of tables. Plus they have a really (!) nice (but expensive) stop system. So I got two of their miter saw tables and they looked great until I put them on a flat surface. The little SOBs are both twisted - the worst one has one leg a quarter inch off (high). That much twist on such a short (24") table is terrible. I should send them back, but there seems to be no point in having them replaced, since more than one was twisted. So I clamped them to my old bench and tweaked until everything was straight and true (one fence need a bit of untwisting, too). And now they work great; it's a nice design if they would just put them together right. So the question is is Delta making Biesemeyer fences more carefully than their miter saw tables? I am not interested in doing any more of the factory's work, and I'm not sure I am capable of tweaking a table saw fence into good enough alignment. Plus I just don't want to start bending and twisting on something that expensive. If Biesemeyer has gone to hell, who makes the best Bies-clone fence these days? By best I mean strong, straight, square, able to hold alignment. Maybe General has kept up the Biesemeyer tradition. Anyone have recent experience with Bies clones? TIA PDX David |
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