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Hello, Oh, my. It seems the reason I stopped posting here years ago still hasn't gone away. I'm sure people here do not read and understand, just oppose anything that they have no experience of because it is different. Jacob said: Either resurface the "motherboard" every time and then...

Hello, Re. comments above. The idea of this jig is to always maintain the same reference face, which it achieves. It reduces waste by not having to re establish a reference face every cut, which it achieves. It effectively measures the cut on the offside of the fence, so the main bulk of wood...

Hello, Elisha designed the jig for my use, so I should clarify a few things, since I know what she has done and why I wanted a jig that elicits the results that it does. Re concerns: Having to move the fence every time introduces errors both for verticality of the fence and slight variation...

Hello, No-one worries about the sawn faces of a tenon from the backsaw, or roughness on the walls of the mortice from the chisel. I can achieve smoother cuts off the bandsaw than either of these, so why should I worry about planing the glue surface. A quick fettle with a card scraper will be...

Hello, For heaven's sake fellas, cut the young woman some slack. She clearly has to design and make something; she can't get an A level by saying there is no point doing it any differently than the old farts here say they do it. Has it not occurred to you that your objections are based...

Hello, Tall fence hand power and some fiddly fence adjusting. First I did it on some old American cast iron. As I posted earlier a big 36in Yeats American and an Oliver. They could tension any blade. I dare say they could just be tensioned to make any blade snap, without straining the frame...

Hello, It is funny when people tell you something can't be done, when you've been doing it for years. I'm not sure if people don't belive what they read or don't read things properly, but when I said earlier that I had cut and lain veneers straight from the saw, and was taught to do so (others...

Hello, There is something that needs addressing with the jig. The cam device used to set the cut thickness works from a datum that has been set to the saw and blade that is currently being worked on. There is no way to set a new datum, if the blade is changed to a different one, (narrower or...

Hello, I would then refer you to the reasons why I don't always want to do that, i.e. waste form the surfacing between each veneer losing numbers of veneer from a given board and the bigger grain miss-match when book-matching due to removing more material than necessary. These things are...

Hello, Let me try to explain why this jig is a good idea. If I wanted to cut a series of sequential veneers from a thick board I would begin by planing and thicknessing the board, making sure that there was at least one edge square to the face side. If I ran that face against a tall fence to...

Hello, Just to be absolutely clear, the timber is cut to thickness on the outside of the blade, not between the blade and the fence. Elisha's jig allows for the kerf in this instance, which the standard fence does not do. Mike.

Hello, Micro adjusters on the rip-fence are great, but do not allow for the lost kerf from the previous cut. Advancing the micro adjuster for 1.5mm veneers would also need the kerf to be added, and who knows what that is exactly, since tooth pitch, blade thickness and different manufacturers...

Hello, Kerf isn't accounted for if the thickness required is on the off side of the fence. This jig allows for the veneer to be cut to thickness (thinness?) on the offside of the fence, not between the fence and the blade. I have cut (and indeed was taught to cut) 15-16 inch wide 3/32 thick...

Hello, The timber is cut in conjunction with the fence, and the jig could also easily be used to cut joinery. It measures the material on the 'off side' of the blade, so in fact automatically allows for blade kerf. Sawn veneer in many shops is often fitted directly from the saw, and even if...

Hello, I think Elisha has forgotten to mention that there are slides on the top surface that runs in grooves on the bottom, which keeps everything parallel at different settings. In other words, transverse mitre slots. The jig has been set parallel to the rip fence, so if that has been adjusted...

Hello. It has now sold! Mike.

Hello, for sale is a very lightly used charnwood 8 inch TS. It has been in storage for about 1year and only used as a backup when my main saws were set for other jobs etc. I have reduced the extension table so it has one table ext fitted to save space. It still has an adequate fence to blade...

Hello, I have a Startrite PT available, if you are still looking for a machine. Fairly new, very light use SD 300. It was a backup and seldom used, so near mint. Mike.

Hello, I'm selling my Startrite SD300 Planer Thicknesser. 240V single phase. 12 inch width capacity. It has a cast iron fence, not the alloy version that was made for a time. It is in pristine condition, as it has had very light use; it was only ever a supplementary machine to my main machines...

Hello, You can use the Veritas with an open throat. The cutter reverses on the toolpost, and the tool is used from the other way round. Mike.