Miter Gauge recomendation

[TracyP]

Osborne sells the EB3 on their site for 109.00 on a regular basis. You can also watch a video of it in action there.

[skysharks]

I thought that I might chirp in here.
After allot of reading and internet searching I thought that I had it nailed down to 2. the Incra or the Dubby systems.

But then my wife made my decision for me.
She got me a the Rockler miter sled for my birthday a few weeks back. I have to say that it has been the most accurate thing that I have ever used before.
I now use it to check the squareness of anything that I need to check or to make square.
I can't say anything about the others as I have not had the pleasure of using those.
It has a large sled base with integrated material hold down.
The fence moves easily to desired angle and locks in place by large knurled knobs.
the angle indicator has a nice sized magnified viewer (helps with the over 40 eyes)
the Fence also comes with a material stop with flip up action.
The fence will also extend out in length to almost 26" I believe.
It was easy to square up to the table saw and start to use.
Be sure to tune up your table saw prior to squaring the miter to it.
It is large and will take up some space. But not overly big in my book.
the miter track that engages into the tables saws track comes with adjustable tension to take up any sloppiness that may be between the two.
I do allot of panel cutting for cabinets so I needed one that was sturdy, accurate, and big enough to handle cabinet side panels.
But I also wanted one to do small parts too. I think my wife found one for me.
She alos purchased the drop off section for it. making the system zero clearance.
Flaw is if you have to put in any other size blade in your saw other than the one that you used to square the unit to your saw with. You will end up cutting the base sled shorter ie putting in a stacked dado blade.
You will no longer have a zero clearance, but for the dado.
Hope this helps.
SOme other had asked me to write something about this.

[welldigger]

I went with the Incra 1000SE. I like the flip-stop and the adjustable fence. The angle settings are pretty much idiot proof. Dead square out of the box except that the fence isn't square with the table.There is a slight gap between the miter bar and the gauge itself on the fence end. I tried to tighten the screw that mounts gauge to bar but it won't tighten any further. It seems like the screw is too long/not threaded far enough. Anybody had this problem before?

[DaveO]

My Incra 1000se need a little shimming to square the fence perpendicular to the table surface. I just loosened the screws mounting the fence to the angle protractor plate and slid a double folded piece of index card under there. Squared it right up. Other than that it was dead on out of the box. I don't know if what I had to tweak would have made any difference in it's use


Dave

[welldigger]

I made an auxillary (does any one know how to spell that word?)fence and ripped a bevel on the fence side and got it square to the table. I thought about shims but figured they would fall out when I shifted the aux. fence

[welldigger]

Oh yeah... pix and gloat to follow!

[Allan Campbell]

I have both the Incra 5000 sled and a JDS Accu-miter. Both are extremely accurate.

The Incra allows you to pull ther miter gauge and fence further toward the infeed side of the saw so that you can crosscut boards up to about 2 feet wide. The weight of the sled and the "T" on the tip of the miterslot bar keep it from dropping down.

The Accu-miter is really sturdy. The Connecticut Valley Woodworking school uses these and claims that once set up they have never needed to adjust them even with students using (abusing) them. The fence is heavy and does drop when pulled back past the edge of the saw table.

I wouldn't hesitate to buy either one again.