We are talking about the miter saw stand from American Design and Engineering, St. Paul, MN. Mine arrived by UPS today. I will be fitting the saw to it over the next weekend and tuning things up.
If you have one of these, how well are you able to make length cuts without measuring and marking, just by placing the board end at the appropriate place on the tape?
I’m not talking about the flip stop, used for repetitive chops.
Gene Davis, Davis Housewrights, Inc., Lake Placid, NY
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I don't know that I'd recommend that. You have a lot of variables at play. First, the brackets that attach the guide rails to the saw can move - as you've discovered when you slid them into place and bolted them down. You will find as you go from job to job that tweaking the alignment after you get it set up again is going to be something you do periodically. You are the one who puts the tapes on, so if you miss, you miss. Then you're off. And changing blades will impact it too. Regular vs thin kerf. Now is it a big deal, no, but it would matter between rough framing and precision trim work.
I use the tapes as a guide. I know I want a piece 48" to fit an outside miter. I grab a 16', set it at 50", whack it down, and go mark it where it wants to be.
In the event that you're mounting this to a Bosch, building a separate deck for the saw or welding the brackets to the stand is a great way to avoid chopping off the top part of the fence. I built a separate base with storage bins in it. That lets me still use the stubby little extensions on the saw as well as move the fences out. And now I've got an 18' wingspan to boot.
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
That is one sharp stand. Keep us updated on how you like it. Gary Katz had an article on his site about some modifacation he made to his. I can't remember what it was though.
Shout out to Andy C. Namaste my friend.
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Here ya go...http://www.garymkatz.com/Tools/ad-e.stand-remodel.htm
Geez, if they were going to go to all that trouble, why didn't they just make the wings too ?
Are we there yet ?
Only thing I can think of is once you have an AD&E stand, you get spoiled by it. The flip stop is a nice feature, & I guess it could be replicated, but if you already have the stand with the wings & stop, you may as well modify it to fit a new saw, I suppose.We're buying a new 10" Bosch slider, & I like my old AD&E stand so much, I'll probably do what one of the guys in the article did, & make boxes to mount the wings to. I looked around to see if there's another stand out there that's better than the AD&E, & didn't find one, so I guess I'll modify mine to fit.