Band saw fence

The Jet fence came with my saw. Adequate, but that is about all I can say for it. If you want to do a lot of resawing, especially on wide boards, I'd look to buy or make something better.

I've got the Jet that came with my 16" saw. I agree... just adequate. I've added taller auxiliary slabs of 1/2" Melamine for resawing and learned that out of the box I couldn't get the fence square to the table. I had to do some fiddling to make it so. It ain't no Biesemeyer, that's for sure.

Look at this guy's work... very nice and can be adapted to about any saw currently built...

Rick Samuel wrote:

Build your own.. that way it's not only simple, cheap and effective, but it can evolve as your needs and skills change without modifying an expensive fence..

I've borrowed several types of fences for resawing and general stuff, and the one that cut best was 18" of straight 1" x 6" hardwood and a couple of clamps... It's ridged, adjustable and gets out of your way when you're not cutting straight lines..

Note: alignment of the fence to the blade path is much more important than the brand of fence, IMHO.. without alignment, you'll be unhappy with any fence..

I use the redneck method: find a piece of scrap flat stock with at least 2 square sides...

Draw a line using the square edge down the middle of the stock...

Cut 1/2 way through the stock, following the line and turn the saw off, WITHOUT moving the stock...

Draw a line on the table with a pencil along the side that's square to the cut..

Align your fence to this line, or measure the angle and set your fence to it..

YMWV

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The fence on the King saw is the Toolex fence I guess -- it is OK. You=20 have to drill it to add high fences for ripping etc... Here is a link to =

a picture of the fence.

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At some point you're going to make a larger top for you bandsaw. While you're at it you can make your own fence. Here's enough info to do it.

If you wish to buy one and not build one, definitely go for the Kreg fence. it is very nice and fully adjustable to compensate for blade drift etc. I previously used a clamped piece of wood as a fence but find the Kreg fence quicker and simpler to use now.

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The Kreg fence used to be called Fasttrack and was sold by BS god Mark Duginske. Kreg bought it. It's a nice fence and I'm thinking about getting it myself. I like the micrometer adjustment.

Mule also makes a nice BS fence.

I bought the Kreg after comparing it to the FastTrack predecessor. (The woodcraft store had both at the same time).

Some points:

You can adjust the fence for alignment two dimensions. This is handy for resawing and compensating for saw drift.

You can flip the fence so that it works for a low cut.

You can add various attachments to the T-fence, like a flip stop, the 4" or 7" resaw fence, micro-adjustor, etc. Or make your own.

I re-drilled the mounting holes to make the fence more useful, as the left side rail had a lot of useless space on my 14" Jet.

It is more expensive, but I think you won't outgrow it.

And they made several improvements to it. See my other post.