Here's something I noticed last night and thought maybe someone could provide a cause. I was running close to 1" walnut through the tablesaw. As soon as the blade finished the cut, no noise came from the blade, meaning, as I finished the pass between the blade and the fence, the blade did not touch the wood. I cut some 1 1/2" pine, basically a 2x4 milled down to the right dimension, and as I finished the cut, the blade was making contact with the wood several times. The pine was 2 - 3 times longer than the walnut. Both were edged on a jointer with that edge against the fence.
I checked and the blade is perpendicular to the sawtop as is the fence.
Any ideas why the blade hit the pine but not the walnut?
Thomas