On Jan 7, 12:11*pm, Jim Weisgram
wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:06:58 -0800 (PST), "



wrote:
On Jan 6, 11:25 am, Chris Friesen wrote:
On 01/06/2010 07:19 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:

Q for Left-tilters: Is LT really that much more beneficial than a RT
blade, or is it just a tad more safe?

Swingman's got it.

It's safer on a beveled rip cut. The primary benefit is that the offcut
is not trapped between the blade and the fence. If you put the fence to
the left of the blade you can get he same effect with a right tilt saw..

This is an unusual configuration with tablesaws for some reason,
although it's common with bandsaws. Go figure.

Which leads be to ask, why are miter gauges normally set up for the
left side of the fence?
The extension table is on the right, so...

There's no reason you have to use it on the left side (of the blade).
I'm not sure why "left side of the fence" is relevant anyway, since
I'll often remove the fence from the table when the crosscut is large.

Sorry, I meant "left side of the blade".

In fact I heard a fellow named Hendrick Varju, who has been writing
articles for Fine Woodworking and making "how to woodwork" DVD's, say
on a podcast that he uses his miter guage on the right side whenever
he can.


I doubt he is the only one.

I thought it easier on the left too, given that there is a lot of
table on that side, but I had to pick which way to set up the gauge,
so chose the "standard". I may change it back (but that'll require a
new tape measure sticker) because I don't like reaching across the
blade and I usually stand to the right of the blade.