I am returning to woodworking after a 30 year absence due to working. I have purchased a router (Porter Cable 893PK) and router table and am reading everything I can (I am currently reading Gary Rogowki’s, Router Joinery, Taunton Press, 1997) which I find easy to read and helpful.
At a woodshow in Phoenix several weeks ago, I saw a demonstration of a product called “WOW Spacer Fence System” which claims (and appeared to accurately claim) that it permitted very easy setups for a range of joints. The sales material says
Box Joints of any length with no limitation on the length of the project. Your stock can be as thick as 1-1/4″. Combination Joints, Rabbet, Dado, Spline Dovetails, Double Dovetails and Sliding Dovetails are all easily done.
The demonstration certainly appeared simple enough (particularly important to someone who has never used a router before), but I was hoping that someone in this group knew about the product and/or had used it and would share their evaluation of it.
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First time I heard of the one you mentioned but keep researching. Look the Incra and other fences. There's also digital readouts available. I looked at their site. They made the ringmaster. In my opinion they don't really have anything earth shattering and really new to offer. A lot has changed in 30 years and it's easy to got lost in the glimmer of gadgets and doo-dads offered to the home woodworker. We used to have to invent and make all this stuff ourself. Now they can buy push sticks ar the store. There's a lot more books to read as well. When I started we had Ferrier for the industrial woodworker and Ernest Joyce for furniture building.
Try http://www.digi-kit.com for something different
I've read quite a few WW books and breezed through scores more. I don't think there is one as comprehensive as Joyce's "Encyclopedia"."WISH IN ONE HAND, S--T IN THE OTHER AND SEE WHICH FILLS UP FIRST"
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