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Received one of these a couple of weeks ago - I was really a little worried when I ordered it as all reviews praised it but they were only in mags; no user reviews
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=5717
I decided to go for this one in place of the Incra, Osbourne or other competition as it is considerably cheaper whilst giving the same accuracy.
The second reason was the length of the track they sell at Rockler. 38" rather than the more common 32 or 34" and my router table is 38" wide!
Finally, I also rather liked the width adjustment on the mitre bar as it adjusts along the entire length rather than in points such as when the place small adjuster screws in the side of the bar or the eccentric washers that some use. This is much better when feeding a larger piece of wood into the cutter with the bar extended out of the slot at the start of the cut
The angular locking is derived from interlocking teeth cast into the bar and the mitre head. These give an angular resolution of 1.5 degrees which struck me as odd (why not 1 degree?) but works fine and is not a problem.
Once I had installed it, I checked the angles against my magnified protractor with 5 minutes of a degree resolution. Spot on :shock: I checked at usual set angles such as 45, 90, 22.5 etc. and all were within 5 minutes of a degree
Finally, I decided not to go for thee aluminium extrusion fence as I will use it in a router table and do not need that length. Why waste money? I knocked up an oak fence in 15 minutes that works fine and is the right size for the router table.
MONEY
Well, I paid for cheapest delivery which was by snail and it took about 6 weeks to arrive but the postage cost was nice and cheap at £10
I got hit for import duty at £12.
Total cost to me was under £75 including the mitre track which is a huge saving on the equivalent Incra mitre gauge of similar spec.
Overall, I am very impressed and pleased with it.
Received one of these a couple of weeks ago - I was really a little worried when I ordered it as all reviews praised it but they were only in mags; no user reviews
http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=5717
I decided to go for this one in place of the Incra, Osbourne or other competition as it is considerably cheaper whilst giving the same accuracy.
The second reason was the length of the track they sell at Rockler. 38" rather than the more common 32 or 34" and my router table is 38" wide!
Finally, I also rather liked the width adjustment on the mitre bar as it adjusts along the entire length rather than in points such as when the place small adjuster screws in the side of the bar or the eccentric washers that some use. This is much better when feeding a larger piece of wood into the cutter with the bar extended out of the slot at the start of the cut
The angular locking is derived from interlocking teeth cast into the bar and the mitre head. These give an angular resolution of 1.5 degrees which struck me as odd (why not 1 degree?) but works fine and is not a problem.
Once I had installed it, I checked the angles against my magnified protractor with 5 minutes of a degree resolution. Spot on :shock: I checked at usual set angles such as 45, 90, 22.5 etc. and all were within 5 minutes of a degree
Finally, I decided not to go for thee aluminium extrusion fence as I will use it in a router table and do not need that length. Why waste money? I knocked up an oak fence in 15 minutes that works fine and is the right size for the router table.
MONEY
Well, I paid for cheapest delivery which was by snail and it took about 6 weeks to arrive but the postage cost was nice and cheap at £10
I got hit for import duty at £12.
Total cost to me was under £75 including the mitre track which is a huge saving on the equivalent Incra mitre gauge of similar spec.
Overall, I am very impressed and pleased with it.
