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It may or may not be contributing to your problem, but that does not appear to me to be a Shopsmith riving knife. Where did you get it? While the knife was my problem, it was no fault of the product, just my own inexperience with the ShopSmith. It's a SharkGuard http://www.thesharkguard.com from Le...

Yesterday I went into the shop and took the fence on and off about 50 times or so and checked alignment and it was perfect every single time. So I figured it must have been technique. Then I took a scrap of wood and made a cut, still perfect. until I put the bladeguard and riving knife on, and made ...

I learned a similar trick from my dad years ago. Rather than putting the tape on the wood, I wrap the router bit bearing a couple of times and do my first pass. Take the tape off the bearing for the final pass.

When you tighten the fence to the front rail, do you first push it into firm contact with the rail? I think you may have solved my problem with that simple question. My old saw was a Ryobi BT3000 which registered alignment by pulling backwards before locking it down. It registered alignment on the ...

Last August I sold my bench top table saw, drill press and bandsaw and bought a used Mark V 510. I'm not really happy with the table saw aspect of the Mark V. I can't seem to consistently get the fence to be parallel to the blade after removing it for other operations and then placing it back on for...