A quick and accurate method to square your miter gauge:
Enjoy
On my table saw the miter gauge slot is perfectly square to the front edge of the table. To square the gauge it's a simple matter of putting the gauge up side down in the miter gauge, run it up tight to the table's edge and lock it down.
This presumes that the blade is aligned dead on with the miter slot. It would also help to have an extension fence attached to the miter gauge face, for the same reason that you use a #8 to joint an edge instead of a block plane.
That said, I now have another use for my indicator and my
18" Starrett combo square.
Try doing that with an Osborne EB3 (my bread and butter gauge), big Incra or TS-Sled and report back to me. :^)
Yes. Mine is dead-on. I use a TS-aligner Jr for that.
I used that gauge for video purposes only. I use an Osborne EB3 normally.
That said, I've always wondered if there was any practical way to align a blade to the miter slot if they were not parallel from the get go? ~ Unless of course, there was some type of adjustment built into the arbour shaft of the saw, something I've admittedly never investigated.
The only two ways I can envision to fix such a problem would be to shim the blade in the arbour or possibly to sand/grind the miter slot so that it was parallel. Both these methods would be quite difficult to accomplish properly in my opinion.
You would have to loosen the table from underneath and wack with a mallet until aligned. Re-tighten bolts.
If it isn't you've got other problems.
Any saw that doesn't have _some_ means of aligning the blade is a piece of crap.
Good idea. Guess I wasn't thinking big enough when trying to think of a solution. :)
This 'old dog' certainly plans to change. Very slick. Thanks for posting that, Brian.
You're probably right. Fortunately, it's a problem I've never come across.
If your trunion assembly is attached to the bottom of your table, that method won't work.
If you one doesn't care enough about accuracy to square their blade to their slot, then I doubt they're going to care enough to square their miter gauge with a dial indicator.
Cool. Definitely give it a try. I NEVER square using any other method. And I often re-check for square in the middle of a woodworking session. -It makes ya feel good.
Brian, glare and insufficient contrast on that vid make it so that I cannot see the face or needle on the dial indicator, even in the inset shots, even with my computer glasses on. ;)
-- "Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." -- Clarence Darrow
The table on my Unisaw was delivered with the miter slot parallel to the blade and hasn't deviated from parallel in 30 years. But then I don't use the saw top as an anvil. We ought to be looking for horses not zebras.
Joe G
Me, too. I just assumed it was doing what he said it was doing. :-)
Wow, ok..... never heard that one. Enlighten me, please.
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