I recently added the Wixey table saw digital scale to my rip fence.

I love it. Nice to see a digital decimal and fraction read out to
verify the reading on the fence scale.

BUT also it is now to easy to accurately place the rip fence "x"
distance from a stacked dado set. Especially helpful on a left tilt
saw. The blades stack to the right from the arbor flange so the scale
on the rip fence rail is no longer accurate. But slide the fence up
next to the blade and zero out the Wixey and you can now accurately
place the fence where you want. I use to use steel rules end on end to measure from the tooth of the stacked dado to the fence. A real PIA
when cutting dado's across a panel 24+" from an end. The current
cabinets that I am working on required 6 dado cuts across the width of
the side panels timed 4. They all came out perfectly. When the 3
fixed shelves fit into dado's on the side panels and all of that fits
into grooves and dados on the front and back face frames, all in one
glue up, it has to be perfect.

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On Aug 6, 2024, Leon wrote
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I recently added the Wixey table saw digital scale to my rip fence.

I love it. Nice to see a digital decimal and fraction read out to
verify the reading on the fence scale.

About a year ago I added the Wixey DRO to my DeWalt 735x bench top planer. I loved it so much that I immediately ordered one for table saw.

Precisely repeatable cuts are no longer an issue, and as Leon stated, it
plays nice with a dado stack.

If you’re debating about getting one, my vote would be a resounding yes.

Joe

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Just Another Joe <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

About a year ago I added the Wixey DRO to my DeWalt 735x bench top
planer. I loved it so much that I immediately ordered one for table
saw.

Precisely repeatable cuts are no longer an issue, and as Leon stated,
it plays nice with a dado stack.

If you’re debating about getting one, my vote would be a resounding
yes.

Joe

I can definitely see how useful it would be! Now you don't have to worry
so much about moving the fence before you get all the cuts done... Or if
you happen to have an oopsie after you've finished the cuts (no one here
has ever cut on the wrong side of the tape measure, have they?), a
replacement will still fit as well.

$150 is a lot cheaper than $1500 for a CNC!

Puckdropper

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On 8/8/2024 2:16 PM, Puckdropper wrote:

Just Another Joe <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

About a year ago I added the Wixey DRO to my DeWalt 735x bench top
planer. I loved it so much that I immediately ordered one for table
saw.

Precisely repeatable cuts are no longer an issue, and as Leon stated,
it plays nice with a dado stack.

If you’re debating about getting one, my vote would be a resounding
yes.

Joe

I can definitely see how useful it would be! Now you don't have to worry
so much about moving the fence before you get all the cuts done... Or if
you happen to have an oopsie after you've finished the cuts (no one here
has ever cut on the wrong side of the tape measure, have they?), a replacement will still fit as well.

$150 is a lot cheaper than $1500 for a CNC!

Puckdropper

Bob found a Grizzly DRO for his TS. I has a tape that the DRO reads
and the tape goes down over the existing rule. I'm waiting for his
report. $66. IIRC.

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On Aug 16, 2024, Leon wrote
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Bob found a Grizzly DRO for his TS. I has a tape that the DRO reads
and the tape goes down over the existing rule. I'm waiting for his
report. $66. IIRC.

The Wixey DRO mounts under the beam of my Biesemeyer fence, and doesn’t interfere with the the tape on top, so you can use either method for
measuring your cut.

Sometimes it’s just easier to use the tape rather than the DRO for quick cuts.

Just my .02¢

Joe

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On 8/17/2024 4:24 AM, Just Another Joe wrote:

On Aug 16, 2024, Leon wrote
(in article<[email protected]>):

Bob found a Grizzly DRO for his TS. I has a tape that the DRO reads
and the tape goes down over the existing rule. I'm waiting for his
report. $66. IIRC.

The Wixey DRO mounts under the beam of my Biesemeyer fence, and doesn’t interfere with the the tape on top, so you can use either method for measuring your cut.

Sometimes it’s just easier to use the tape rather than the DRO for quick cuts.

Just my .02¢

Joe

Joe

Yes the Grizzly DRO does add a tape to the top of the existing one and
requires the removal of the existing SS cursor.

Bob has reported that it looses calibration id the fence does not stay
grounded on the from bar. I think he is getting rid of it.

Back to the Wixey for him I believe. I do have the Wixey and really
like it. His issue is that he also has the Woodpeckers Rip Stop mounted
under the front rail. I think he is working that out now.

And yes the cursor on the fence is quick but with the Wixey I am finding
that I am looking at it over the cursor 100% of the time.

I build complicated furniture/ cabinets. Close, touching the right or
left side of the rule on the front rail, is close but not exact enough
for me. With the Wixey DRO I tune in to the closest thousandths. Anal?
Yes!

So I build front and back face frames. Those have grooves/dados on the
back of the front FF and front of the back FF. The cabinet carcass fits
into all of those grooves/dado's. Additionally the carcass top and
bottoms and any fixed shelves are dado-ed into the carcass sides.

I just finished 2 cabinets with drawers, fixed, and adjustable shelves.

I glue up the face frames first, rails and stiles. I cut grooves in all
of these pieces to receive the carcass parts. And then I cut short
dado's in the stiles to complete the grooves in the rails to intersect
the groves in the stiles.

The cabinet gets glued up completely all in one gluing process. In
this case the front and back face frames and the 3 fixed shelves and
side panels all at once. On all, X, Y, and Z axis's.
Every thing must fit perfectly to go together during glue up.

Sometimes I will test fit but that is a waste of time. It either fits
or does not fit. If it did not fit I would have to rebuild the front
and back face frames. Fortunately this has not happened in the past 15
years of building cabinets this way.

This is how it gets glued up. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lcb11211/53905035252/in/datetaken/

This is after the glue up. There are not nails or screws, only floating tenons, grooves, dado's, and glue holding all of this together. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lcb11211/53905035567/in/datetaken/

And the finished product. Dove Grey milk paint. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lcb11211/53950649135/in/datetaken/

And FWIW Harvey has just added a DRO to their Big Eye rip fence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZpKHOlisUI&t=2s
Start at 3:50.

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I forgot to mention that the DRO is great for recalibrating the location
of the fence when using a stacked dado. No measuring required!

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