Maybe I'm only saying that because I spent part of my morning one day this week ripping up hardwood which had so much tension in it that it was clamping itself to the riving knife and required frequent stops. the manufacturer is still deficient in not applying basic safety principles which are well known and documented and which have been for more than 80 years. My point, though, is that the manufacturer should have designed this in! They didn't. You could always knock something cheap out of MDF to solve this problem though. The bessy fence got very good remarks in an issue of fine Woodworking a couple of months back while it did make a note about the full-length of the fence and the imminent dangers of kickback. They may be better then the Chinese TS fence, but let's not pretend that they are engineering masterpieces. But why should you need to modify this much hyped fence design? It should work properly out of the box. The cure, of course, is to make a low auxilliary rip fence. The fact that American machinery manufacturers deliver a sub-standard product (splitter rather than riving knife, poor rip fence in general) is perhaps more indicative of the cheeseparing that goes on in US industry and the almost complete disregard they seem to have for consumer safetyīessy fences some saws foul the crown guard when making very narrow cuts, especially bevel edge ones.
Yes, you might get away with using a fence for years and have no kickback, but the amount of timber I machine tells me that it will eventually happen. Currently in fence design the Americans lag more than 30 years behind Europe, The bessy are more accurate and more rigid than the OEM rip fences on a lot of American saws benches - they are, however, sold in the main to untrained and inexperienced woodworkers and the design is wrong in both theory and in practice. Delta Unisaw 10 Table Saw Model 36 815 With Biesemeyer Fence System.
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