Thread: Fence upgrade - Carbatec/Sherwood Biesemeyer style vs VerySuperCool vs Incra

My usual method is unlock red main fence lever, unscrew thumb screw, near fence closest to you, then untighten the other one at the far end of the fence. If i leave it loose i find when feeding sheet stock through the back end will flex. So i've just gotten into the habit of tightening and untighten every time.

I was specifically referring to roughing down sheet material, eg i need it aprrox 400mm wide, standard method would have been move fence to 410mm then cut, significantly faster then releasing and tightening the incra fence. The other annoying thing is reading the measurements much easier on the standard fence. Plus often times I've resorted to using a tape measure as most of the time I'd double check with a tape measure before the cut as I also find the magnetic steel ruler can move due to vibrations etc

Hrmm lots to consider! I guess I’ll just keep fine tuning the stock fence and see how I go over the Christmas break when I’m doing some builds. I’ll be building a workbench and grinder stand for the shed first but once I have my workspace set up I want to move onto making furniture for the house. That will be a bed, a console table for my tv, some bedside tables and a chest of drawers. After that who knows, I want to get into doing some turning as well so it all depends what interests me I suppose.