A 24" length of 3/4" thick x 3" tall Ultra Track aluminum extrusion serves as the fence and clamps to both rails, making it the most rigid fence available. There are different schools of thought regarding where the blade / teeth should sit on the wheel tyres. They shipped me off to Subaru school 3 weeks later and my instructor taught us how dead simple metric was.

I have a very old Willow 3-wheel bandsaw which is still in excellent condition but the table is not thick enough to accommodate the fixing holes in the mounting rail. Removing the Record fence was one of those wonderful delights even though I had paid too much for something to be so disliked. There's always just a little bit of drift that prevents you from getting precise cuts even when you are using a fence.i also wonder if you have an issue with the bearings below the table in that they cant be moved back behind the teeth gullets when using 1/2 blades and smaller .

Despite these humble origins, the fence is rock-solid, smooth as silk, adjusts for drift, and offers up to 9 in. The kit comes with large and small fences and both have adjustable resaw bars which is all very useful. For me, this fence is strictly functional, so I just cut out a rough box - but you could make it look nicer by cutting out a smooth organic shape, perhaps with rounded corners. I have my workarounds but I’ve thought about a fence replacement too if better versions exist for this size of machine.

Woodworking is your worldwide home for discussion of all things woodworking, carpentry, fine furniture, power tools, hand tools, and just about anything else about making - anything - from trees! Two simple adjustments allow you to set the fence to match blade drift, greatly enhancing cutting accuracy. It doesn't take much force to deflect it because the fixing points for the fence bar are far away (on the left side of the table) from where force is being applied.

Two 24" lengths of 3/4" thick x 1-1/2" tall Double Track aluminum extrusions serve as the front and rear fence rails. I started trying to more or less center the blade on the tyres but couldn’t move the lower bearings back enough with this configuration. In the field, we woodworkers do a great deal by eye to avoid measuring, spacing screws, even dovetails, without layout or rulers. Let the glue dry, then drill through the hinge block and into the runner to create a pilot hole for the threaded insert that will hold the pivot bolt. This piece of plywood was left over from another project, and I already knew the sides to be square and straight.

To maximize the pivoting action, the front of the fence needs to be spaced out from the end of the runner. I still like and use imperial more than metric and prefer it, despite metric-only users from mainland Europe not understanding why. In a world of dizzying change and uncertainty I thought I had settled on the calm of knowing what I would next do, and now I don't.