I came home and finally remembered to measure the parts of my saw system. My saw has a 2 3/8 maximum depth of cut. The plastic shoe holds the saw off the guide 3/8 of an inch. The guide itself is 1/2 inches thick. So, if everything were dead on, I should be just barely able to cut through 1 1/2 inches. However, if the lumber is a 32nd thicker, or the max depth of cut is a 32nd less than 2 3/8, or the thickness of the shoe or track is more than what I measured by a 32nd, any combination of those could easily add up to a 16th short on my cut. Which is what is happening.
I am certain that my saw is sitting in the plastic shoe properly as it is just a flat piece of plastic on the top side. I often do just use the edge of the guide as a straight edge and calculate the offset, but my saw also happens to have a weird offset measurement, and I have messed up that calculation a few times, which is why I got the saw guide in the first place. Anyway, there are ways around all of this, I was just wondering if other folks had the same saw guide system and were running into the same issue. I can also just find a 7.25 saw that has a 2.5 inch max cut. Thanks for all the comments. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081
