Years in the past, I fell in love with the performance of the Unifence on my previous Delta Unisaw. Sadly, the Unifence stayed with the noticed after I bought it. Nonetheless, I’ve missed having the performance of the Unifence with its sliding aluminum face that may be positioned in varied methods for various capabilities. My favourite configuration for any such fence is having the ability to slide the face of the fence towards the rear of the noticed to make use of the fence as a cease. In reality, in lots of components of the world, fences with this performance are necessary.
Whereas there are a number of totally different aftermarket fences accessible at the moment that operate just like the Unifence, I used to be excited when SawStop introduced its T-Glide Advance Rip Fence. Putting in it on High quality Woodworking’s SawStop PCS was a breeze. The brand new fence dropped proper onto the inventory fence rails, and it solely took a few minutes to regulate the fence parallel to the blade and sq. to the desk.
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| Ups and downs. The fence face is definitely switched between its excessive and low orientations. There are dual-scale indicators, one for the excessive place and one for the low. The face will also be used as an L-fence. | |
The fence extrusion was straight, and the face has a dovetailed slot that accepts two included inserts for shop-made fence attachments. The best facet of the fence options three-quarter-turn toggle screws that loosen and tighten the fence face with ease. One other function that’s simply ignored however very welcome is the inclusion of rollers on the far finish of the fence, making the T-Glide Advance Rip Fence transfer over the desk like a dream.
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| Good cease block. The face is adjusted with three cam locks on the suitable facet of the fence tube. Loosen the locks and pull the fence again away from the blade, and you should utilize it as a cease block when crosscutting together with your miter gauge. The rip fence’s scale indicator offers you the right studying for the crosscut. | |
Nevertheless, there are two issues that potential customers ought to concentrate on—neither of them is an issue, extra of a consideration. In case you have any fence attachments that straddle your previous fence, the toggles on the suitable facet of the fence may intrude with them. Additionally, in the event you’re apt to make use of your fence on the left facet of the blade, it is best to know that whilst you can swap the face to the opposite facet, doing so is tedious, however this shouldn’t be an issue for the overwhelming majority of woodworkers.
On the High quality Woodworking store, we are going to seemingly rotate between the inventory fence and the T-Glide. —Ben Strano, Instruments and Supplies editor
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