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   oldusty | Mar 20, 2008 06:51am | #1

     Hi cool ,

              Is it burning the whole length of the cut or just when you start and stop on your feeding rate ?

            I usually rip my stock then send them through the thickness planer on edge to clean the saw kerf .

                regards     dusty

              how did that kitchen / island come out ?

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   coolbreeze | Mar 20, 2008 07:11am | #2

   Dusty,

   I was thinking about you today. I still have your eaddy. I kept it so I could send you pictures. I finished the three panels on the back of the cook island today. I really appreciate your help. I am going to deliver in about two weeks but I will photograph the island before It leaves and send you copy.

   I get the burn when I slow down to adjust my grip on the push stick for any reason. The burn is on the inside of the cut. The blade does throw some sawdust on the outfeed side of the blade indicating the work piece is moving into the blade ever so slightly. Without something like a featherboard holding it tight against the fence, I guess that is the nature of the beast. I also clean it up sometimes with the planer but that is a little extra work that i would like to avoid. If I move the work through the cut at a moderate or slow pace, the blade cuts so smooth and is very accurate. I use the planer and dial calipers  for the face dimension, but generally rely on the saw and sand or plane the edge.

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   [email protected] | Mar 20, 2008 07:26am | #3

   Try adjusting the riving knife, to line up with the left side of the blade, and putting the fence on the left to make the cut.

   One of the draw backs with a left tilt saw is that:  the blade is indexing of the arbor flange on the left, and the right side of the blade shifts left and right if you change to a blade with a different kerf width.  This makes it impossible to align the riving knife or splitter to align with the edge of the blade nearest a fence on the right. 

   So, aligning the riving knife to the left side of the blade, and ripping with the fence on the left may clear up some of your problem with burning. 

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   coolbreeze | Mar 21, 2008 04:31am | #4

   Jigs,

   Right now I am going back and forth so much with my dado and the regular blade that I have taken the riving knife off. I did note, however, that I get the burn when the knife was in place. The burn is not something I would fence the left side of the blade to prevent.  There must be a better way.

   Thanks for your reply.

    

   Cool

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   flairwoodworks | Mar 21, 2008 05:26am | #5

   That's an interesting note on left-tilt saws that I had never heard of and never thought about.Chris @ flairwoodworks

    - Success is not the key to happines.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   [email protected] | Mar 21, 2008 07:17am | #6

   I hadn't really heard of it, and not thought about it until I tried to help a buddy set up his saw. 

   I went over and showed him how to set the cursor on the fence, by locking the fence, ripping a piece of wood, measuring the width of the cut piece and then adjusting the cursor to match the cut piece.  Which worked fine just like it always had. 

   A few weeks later he mentions that it seemed to have drifted.  Went over and checked things out, and he had changed to a standard kerf blade, so the cursor was off about a 32nd of an inch. 

   I'm ambidextrous, (at least for large motions like guiding wood into the saw), so if I had a left tilt saw, I would just mount the fence left, and not be bothered by it.  But it would drive me nuts, not being able to adjust the fence and have it stay within a few hundredths of true. 

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   Daviddevine | Mar 21, 2008 09:14pm | #7

   I know you said you checked the aligment of your saw but is your fence toed in towards the blade?

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   coolbreeze | Mar 22, 2008 03:03am | #8

   David, I Checked the whole shebang, 90. 45, fence parallel to the blade, blade parallle to mitre slot, fence square to the table, the whole shebang.

   I am wondering if I would get the same resulte with a Fusion.

   Cool