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Nice! Looking forward to seeing the finished product.
Doing mine, I ended up using a piece of wood and a clamp to put pressure on the fence to make that square. The blade to the table was easy enough.
Sold my table saw now though. Will be getting a new one in a couple of months so looking for recommendations.... @Hovis ?
When it gets a bit warmer, I’m going to sand mine back again, fill some of the gaps I’ve noticed and spray on a varnish finish (it was brushed last time).
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Big question. All depends on what kind of work you're doing, how much space you got and what your budget is. For me personally, I had decent space and mostly working on furniture so I went for a cabinet saw with a cast top. If I were doing it again I'd look at older sedgwick, wadkin type saws with the aim of being patient. I have a 30 year old kity which I'm pretty happy with. It's current sold as a scheppach precisa 3.0 which is more or less the same machine. I dig the sliding table, a real luxury that has rendered my mitre saw obsolete for everything other than construction work.
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Given your huge disposable income you should consider the Festool CMS system. I've had one for 15 years and it's pretty decent.
Hovis
Airhead
Started making a desk top today, copying the @Soul herringbone desk.
Discovered that my table saw is skew af, and the riving knife is a liability.
In straightening it up, I discovered it's all but impossible to square the blade to the table, as somewhere along the line the chassis holding the saw to the tabletop has been bent. So I didn't bother, as I can square it to the fence well enough.
I just took the riving knife off, as it was bent & again, all but impossible to make parallel to the blade.
I did make a zero clearance insert, though, and built a fence & zero clearance base for my chop saw (as I won't be able to make a usable cross-cut sled on the table saw).
In hindsight, I should have cut the radius first, then cut the straight bits - as it is, I'll have to feather in the curve with a bit of sanding.
Next up - squaring up the miter saw & chopping up the strips into 4x1 lengths, then a whole lot of gluing up.