Table Saw fence

I use the standard fence that came with the grizzly 1023s. It is a Biesemeyer clone, your typical T-square fence. It is not marked but I think it is made by Shop Fox. I can’t imagine any better results using a biese. After dealing so many years with a small Craftman bench saw, the T-square is a died and gone to heaven event in my life as a ww’ing hobbiest. The front to back alignment is absolutely dead on, no slop at all. The scale is dead on also. I got into the habit of always measuring the width of a ripped board in several places when I used the bench saw, just because of the poor quality fence. I measured using a Incra scale, down to 1/64. I can’t measure a 1/64 difference in width using the T-square fence. I attribute great cuts to the fence, but I believe a good quality blade (I use a forrest woodworker blade, proper blade to fence parallelism, larger table, 3hp motor, and good outfeed table also contribute to precise rips. I sometimes wonder how that little craftsman would have ripped with a good quality T-square fence. Probably not much better.

-- david roberts, houston area, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but that has never been a problem for me."

I’ve been using an HTC fence for a qouple of years now and am very happy with it. No complaints at all.

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-- measure once, cut once, swear, start over

I have been useing a Unifence since 1995, it’s been a good fence, allways stays aligned, couldn’t really ask for better.

I installed a Delta T2 on my Craftsman saw, as have others, and really like it. Here is Jamie’s blog about his T2 experience. http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Jamie/blog/2817

-- Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

I have a 60” true rip fence on my contractor saw there made by a number of company’s and a 60 is great if you cut alot of sheet goods and its very adjustable and dead on accurate.

-- rob, ont,canada

I just installed a Delta T2 on my Craftsman 10 in saw it works great. I bought it online from Lowes it was $150.00 with free shipping . It took me about a hour to install it, you do need to drill and countersink holes to retro fit it If you have a drill press it is quite simple to do.

-- Dan, New Hampshire