reese551•4d agoOG Member

Remember when everyone knew how to properly set a table saw fence?

I was helping a friend in his garage shop the other day and saw him just push the fence against a ruler. He was off by a full sixteenth over 24 inches. That's how you get cabinets that don't fit right. We used to check it with a dial indicator against the blade at the front AND back. Now I see so many folks online just trusting the scale. It matters because that tiny error gets multiplied across every cut. Does anyone still use a good old Starrett indicator for this, or is there a better trick now?

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the_ben4d ago

What's a dial indicator, my fence is just a warped 2x4?

rowan_thomas4d ago

Tell that to @the_ben and his warped 2x4.