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Chems":20w9ih7t said:Now nowhere there does he say he's using a riving knife. Surely if he was he wouldn't have had the wood pinch, I say this because he says he uses push blocks and guards I don't know weather that includes it.
Why are the Americans so against riving knives and guards?
Bit of a generalisation there. Granted the US manufacturers/importers had few machines equipped with riving knives but that's all changed in recent times. Most new cabinet saws now have some version of the feature on their machines:
http://www.deltaportercable.com/unisaw/ ... _knife.pdf
Don't know why people refer to the Xcalibur as a "Unisaw Clone", it's not, it's simply a Chiwanese generic cabinet saw that's been sold around the world for he last 30 yrs or so. The Xcalibur just has different stickers from all the other similar models. Never understood why this forum of all the 100s of WW forums on the net seems to be the only place that uses the term. Still a fine saw but not a clone of the older version of the Unisaw. Maybe Philly is to blame......