http://www.woodworkerz.com/woodworking-tips-list/

NICE TIP!! THX!!

Pretty cool Gene. Thanks. Will have go through it more when I have more time.

Thanks, Gene! Booked marked that one!!

Cool, Thanks

http://www.woodworkerz.com/woodworking-tips-list/

 

here :

http://www.woodworkerz.com/10-tips-for-a-better-rip-cut/

It offers what I think is terrible advice.

It tells you that the blade and fence must be parallel.

This is not merely impossible to achieve with a tape measure, but it is counter productive even if it were possible.

 

In an ideal setting the fence should toe away from the fence by a couple of thousandths to prevent the  teeth on the back end of the cut from skiffing against the work and messing up a perfectly fine rip, burning, or worse;  binding and causing that ever dreaded kick back by picking the work up  ever so slightly and  accelerating it back at the operator.

 

Bear in mind please that the Bearings are imperfect and the Blade is imperfect, so no matter how dead on parallel one thinks one can achieve, a partial rotation of the blade tosses all supposed perfection out the window.

 

I keep my rip fence as well as my slider set  to toe away by a lousy few thousandths.  this  insures that the teeth on the lee side of the saw blade are not causing problems.

 

The net downside of shooting for parallel is that because it is an impossibility to attain perfection the odds that the fence will cause the work to contact the work on the back side is about 50 / 50. 

 

 

Back  several years ago when I first discovered this practice I struggled with the ramifications of the fact that my cut edge would be sliding ever so slightly at the angle across the front of the blade and thus creating a cupped cut edge.

 

 The math boggled me trying to calculate the amount of imperfection that might be caused by this practice.

So I turned to my trusty TURBOCAD and  did the math by drawing it out in 3D.  The amount of imperfection caused by a rip fence tow out of as much as 0.010"  (which is an  insanely  large amount of toe out)  is so small that it takes something like 10 or 15 decimal places to represent it.   That's 0.00000000002" or smaller of an imperfection. Essentially, there is no imperfection from the toe out.  At least not one that you can measure with any equipment that exists anywhere on the planet that can measure wood.

Cliff,

Maybe I can go back to using my framing square for table saw setup! 

That, sire, is a pot load of tips.  Thanks for the URL.  I now have it in my favorites.