What methods do you guys use to "square up" tables

[13eightyfour]

As the title really, id like to have an accurate way to square up my table saw (blade, mitre guide, fence) ive looked around and some people use bits of wood and screws and others recommend a proper gauge, Rutlands do a woodpecker 1 for £80 which seems alot but if its a good piece of kit i dont mind paying for it.

So what methods do you recommend and how do you square your own up

thanks

1384

 

[OLD]

Aldi/lidl digital caliper measure slot to blade front and back and adjust framing square for 90 deg..

 

[tnimble]

The saw gauge seems a very nice piece of kit but it not really necessary to set-up table saw (parallel align anything). Only a dial gauge and piece mdf or ply and a few small strips of wood are enough. (screw one piece o wood under the piec e of ply or mdf, so it will ride in the mitre slot . then secure the dial gauge on the piece with a couple of strategically placed pieces of wood. Calipers are very unsuitable for paralleling especially when paralleling to a thin profiled and rotatable piece of steel. (too little registration, bad contact point etc). Rules, tapes, scales are totally useless for this kind a job.

Dail gauges are cheap even the simple digital one are cheapish.

A good engineers square can then be used to align the mitre slot to the mitre gauge (make sure the mitre gauge fits without to much play in the slot first). No need for feelers (unless your uncertain about reading the gap along the squares blade)

 

[John McM]

http://www.americanwoodworker.com/aspx/ ... 0&PageNo=1

SCROLL DOWN TO TABLESAW ALIGNMENT VIDS

 

[wizer]

http://thewoodwhisperer.com/episode-55- ... neup-pt-1/

http://thewoodwhisperer.com/episode-56- ... neup-pt-2/

 

[Digit]

Aldi/lidl digital caliper measure slot to blade front and back and adjust framing square for 90 deg..

Same here. About then that I discovered that if patience was a virtue I wasn't very virtuous.
But then, once do that's it!

Roy.

 

[Ironballs]

Engineers square and the Mk 1 Eyeball for me