It sounds pretty basic……. but I know someone will have the answer
I have a meddle fence on my table saw and would like to be able to build and attach a semi permanent sacraficial wood fence to it. Anyone have a plan ? or any experience with this already? thanks for you time in advance.
Best Regards Ryan
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A few ways. Depends on the TYPE of fence.
Either make a saddle that shoes OVER the fence and can be clamped on. Or drill a few holes in the existing ( what I do) and screw it on, or just clamp a hunk of jointed 2x4 to what ya have.
I keep a straight hunk of poplar 1x4 handy, it already has a cut out for the dado blade. I true it up if needed and have used teh same hunk for yrs.
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If your fence has T-Slots on the sides, you can use 1/4"-20 carriage bolts. Here are a couple of pictures of my sacrificial fence.
Just remember - it's not a REAL sacrificial fence until it's got blood on it - prefferabbly a virgin's!
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Actually, I use a piece of MDF for mine (for bevels, mostly), and screw through the back side of my UniFence into it with some short fat sheetmetal screws.
I do that mostly.I did have one once made of MDF in U shape that I ccould snap right down over the metal fence nice and snug with no cclamps or screws
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never used them, but Rockler is selling clamps for this purpose:
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Universal Fence Clamps
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Edited 11/11/2007 11:51 am ET by dustinf
I rarely use a sacraficial fence except when double mitering, for that I have a U made of strips of ply that slips over my DW 744 fence, no clamps needed.
Most of the time, I'm too busy to look for it so I use a squeeze clamp and a scrap of MDF.
I use the same squeeze clamp to hold a 4' level against the fence when running sheets of ply through the saw, easier to keep the sheets straight on those skimpy little portables.
Gord