Table saw fence with incremental positioning 

Years later this is still my favorite RU-vid project. I can't wait to have a garage shop of my own where I can afford this sort of space. Inspiring.

There are a ton of this kind of video -- very few of this high quality. What makes it exceptional is that you don't waste words or play loud stupid music that you are SURE EVERYONE would love to hear. Not a wasted moment. No stammering and backtracking and telling us what you should have done but did not do. You really do know how to make an instructional video. Of course, one could not attempt this project without detailed plans. I'm sure those are in the works. Bravo.

Watching this project come together is like looking into the mind of a GENIUS, plus the hand skills to match! I’ve watched it several times, and it still amazes me! A younger version of John Heisz!!!

That is one slick fence....you make it look so easy but we all know otherwise as much thought and patience went into the build.

Excellent build. Above my skill level, but with this detail, I am willing to advance until I find a failure point. I'll fix it from there. Thank you for all you do.

Well-made video, with minimal voice-over, no flannel, just the facts. Very neat design! I've been unhappy with my tablesaw fence for some time, so this has really inspired me to make a metric version - thanks!

This is easily the very best maker video I've ever seen. You keep it up Jer, and you will be giving Matthias Wandell, Marc Spagnolo, Stumpy Nubs, Jimmy Diresta, and John Heisz a run for their money. Absolutely brilliant work and really well produced tutorial, and thanks for not playing some weird crappy music in the background. People don't realize that when it comes to music,one man's food is another man's poison.

Very very nice. Always amazed at guys like you who make their own tool jigs or whatnot and include all the little pieces and parts that make the thing work. Nicely done. Keep it up!

Awesome build...and you explained it all VERY clearly.

the satisfaction of making this and using it must be immense, great job man.

My faith in humanity is renewed, a young man with such expert, highly honed skills is a joy to watch. Thank you Jer!

Oh, Man! You design and build great stuff! I got my saw for free with a Beis already on it but I think your design is better! I’m going to meld some of your cool features into mine to improve it. Ha! I’m upgrading my Beis to a Schmidt-1000!!! Cheers! 🙂

an excellent design, a well-done execution, and one of the best videos I think I've ever seen.

I just hate the fact that you have so many better tools than I do and I have been collecting for 60 years or so.LOL. Seriously, you do some very nice work, love your videos, keep em coming!

I've seen a lot of videos on making fences, and this one is by-far the best. Thank you for sharing. You should patent this, but if that is not possible... you should keep your other ideas to yourself until patent pending. You have the ability to be "RICH". Good luck in your future.

Great project. Only drawback I can see is that when you change blades, the calibration needs to be redone because no two saw blades are the exact same thickness unless they're the same make and model. So the only thing I would modify is the pointer mount by allowing it be adjusted sideways so it can point to an exact 1/16" mark after re-calibrating the fence.

I have been pouring over the videos for self made fences, both table and band saws. You have by far blown all the others away, and a great deal of the other designs are brilliant. Your accuracy and detail speak volumes about your abilities, and your design. Excellent workmanship. That is art you are making. I am sure your father is so proud, or would be. I would be. I would love to see this done to a band saw? Regards, Hairman.

Started watching this like... " Ishould build my own fence..." now i'm on Incras website looking at shipping options. Mad skills dude, awesome video!

I've only recenty stumbled on to your channel and must say that I'm impressed. You're quite clever in your problem solving and ability to invent with simplicity of design and repurposing seemingly mundane hardware. Well done on all counts. Looks like I've got a lot of videos to catch up on. Best of luck!

Wow ! Great idea and craftsmanship. Probably a little beyond my ability, but a pleasure to watch. Thanks for sharing

Brilliantly conceived, beautifully made, what an engineering performance!

Jeremy, this is a great vid and design. A bit on the heavy side but it works. I would have built it out of aluminum. Ive got 22 years as a fabricator and the only thing Id recommend is when drilling steel, Id use some sort of cutting oil or watered down liquid soap to save on drill bits. an old spray bottle with water and soap would do the trick if you dont have the funds to buy cutting oil. Keep up the great work.

@chaba, while it appears to be one end, or one point, as you say, it's actually 3 points and the end of the fence is "floating ". When you apply tension via cam or whatever you're using to snitch it down, you're applying a great deal of force to 2 areas (tension springs) in front of the guide rail and 1 behind it. (cam) A 16" span of metal 2x2" angle iron welded or bolted to another 2x2 tubing is pretty difficult to move or deflect once set. The success of this style of fence is little to no deflection running the length of the entire assembly. In fact, I can't think of a single place where deflection could be an issue. If you examine the Old Skool TS fences their short comings will become apparent. The area of my old Craftsman TS fence that held it "square" was 1.5"x6".

I thought Wandell was the only 1000" of an " woodworker, good job. You guys are great :-)

I’ve been things about something like this for my saw but your design is amazing more in depth though than I had. Awesome job !!!

Thanks for the comment. You and AskWoodMan inspired me to build my own Beisemeyer style fence for my old Harbor Freight saw. When I tried your method of gluing the UHMW tabs to the steel flatbar I had trouble with the UHMW coming unglued. Have you had any trouble with the epoxy sticking to the UHMW? Maybe I used too cheap of glue. I'm going to cut some grooves in the plastic to give it some tooth and I'll try again.

Just stumbled across your channel. Holy cow. What a great video/channel You have such amazing talent for a young man. Thanks for sharing your skill and knowledge w/ the world Keep up the great work.

Now that you have a year of using this fence behind you, is there anything you would change?

Lovin that depth gauge. Awesome idea man! Can't wait to build my own.

This is very clever of you, thoroughly enjoyed this video.

A very Superb, Brilliant piece of work; HOWEVER, although it might be cheap to make, your level and degree of workmanship surpasses any notion of a backyard or basement reproduction. the moment you came out with the metal milling machine I had to stop; although I do have a welder, the only milling I do is with my dual speed drill and some high speed drill bits; Yes i would love to build your fence, I love it, but the milling is where I'm stumped, maybe I'll find one a little simpler, but, keep up the good work,

You have the potential for some patents there. I would love to see this mass produced with the knob made of cnc aluminum with indents that would allow fence movement in 1/128" increments.

you are really a master of making things, well done . greetings from Kuwait.

absolutely awesome video. the saw I have isn't bad. But it needs a much better fence. This is the simplest design I have found. Fantastic job...

I like this from what you were saying all I would have to do is move the sticky back tape to the spot that was worked out to be the correct size with its corresponding number which in turn will place the zero (0) on the home spot correctly. Definitely worth making and taking the time with it😹 considering I do a lot of my sanding by hand marking up a tape measure would be a lot simpler to do😹😹😹 Thanks for showing how you made this will have to show Dad so he can help me make it for the new bench table saw I am making for him 😹😹😹

My God : are you a rocket scientist Jer ? Amazing work : I kept watching every second of this and thinking ( every second too ) : how talented can someone be ?? This is just sooo amazing . All my respect for this . Marc

Thank you so much !!! Congratulations !!! Its so easy and functionally !!

not bad thinking there! =) fine adjust and fast locking only thing i would change is that i might go with a trapezoidal leadscrew insted of a threaded rod =) good work =)

Great video! What an impressive set of skills you have, and brilliant planning. Thanks for posting this!

Credit to you young man. You are a master

Excellent design and video.

If this fence is simple, what is for you complicated and hard :)? Your work is not DIY anymore but industrial level. I like your solution for fixing and fine adjustment very much, this is here the big idea.

Great job, good technique and design values.

Excellent presentation, look forward to fixing up my table saw bench, thank you

Awesome BUILD !!! You are amazing mate

Nice job! Some very clever solutions

Very well done. I need to make one of these!

I was looking for you long time no see 👍

Wow! Very impressive skills

a very nice design Jer

This reminds me of the system Craftsman had on their saws like in the 60's.

Nice work Jeremy. Thanks for the video. Cheers

I was looking at building a similar fence but I hadn't thought of doing a cam with split hex nuts.. my design would've been similar to an X axis on a mill or lathe where you would have to crank the fence over to location with a handwheel. I am curious about the other end of the fence. It always seems to me that even the best fences have a little movement and that a linear shaft on the other side might help keep that from moving and keep the fence parallel to the blade. It also may be that I don't have enough experience with a table saw to mitigate that and that no one else has that problem..

thats what we call engineering :) great job, well done .

I sure hope you patented this design. You could be set for life

Brilliant brilliant brilliant.

Congratulations man! Wonderfull piece!

I'd give you two thumbs up but I had an accident on a table saw in the 80's.

Nice work and I love the detail about construction. I've watched it four or more times trying to remember everything. I dream about one for my saw. How do you adjust your new fence to be parallel with the blade? I missed that part. Thank you for hard work!

Great work! Didn't you worry about blade-deflection with your calibration?

This is really cool man.

на линейке ,используй ленту от рулетки и ещё лучше будет! Отличная работа!Супер!!!

After living with this for a while how do you like it? I just ended up rebuilding my table saw (one of the gears had some stripped teeth which I welded and re-cut and in the process disassembled most of it and shimmed it tight, cleaned everything up, readjusted everything...) and I'm looking at my fence again and debating this, bringing me back to your video. My concern is that when I'm metalworking this kind of repeatability is a great thing, but woodworking is less precise, I can't tell you how often (maybe dozens of times in a session) I find myself loosening my fence and gently tapping it over a hair just to get the fit a little bit better (I remember at one point having a dial indicator on it and measuring in thousands of an inch, though I don't remember why). Your setup locks down in 1/16" increments, and your detents will allow it to move 1/32", and you can probably accurately stop half way between the detents for 1/64" (about .016", which if I remember from measuring is about 2-4 of those little taps on the fence I do now). My concern is that I don't know how often the repeatability would get used, right now I tend to set up the fence and try to make all the cuts that I need to be exactly the same at one time before I move it, which wouldn't be necessary but it's not often a problem. OTOH, wood is imprecise and all that "I just need to shave half a hair off of this to make it fit perfectly," I'm worried I might find all the knob turning aggravating and on the other side of that I wonder if 1/16" steps might be too fine for quick work, like is there any tendency to "miss" and lock down a tooth off of where you want to be? I'm wondering if this might turn my workflow from "set the fence, cut, tap it over, cut, good..." to "lock the fence down, cut, unlock, twiddle the knob, cut, twiddle again, cut, OK, gotta twiddle the knob back before setting the fence for the next cut..." and getting annoyed at it, then an occasional "crap, I can't repeat that cut because I've twiddled the knob," or worse, twiddling the knob over and ending up 1/16" off of where I thought I would be and needing to recut something. Potentially it could go the other way, where the accurate repeatability means that I don't need to do much "shaving a hair off that cut" but that would surprise me considering how much of the time I'm repairing things and trying to match something up to existing stuff.

Question: For those of us that do not know how to weld, could this be done using a Riveter?

Very nice. Very detailed.

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome video... I have to watch this a few times. Once question. How do you keep the fence of the iron table top? I know you put something on the end, but doesn't that hit the miter track? ...

absolutely amazing!

Awesome...very well done

Très beau travail, cela donne des envies, Merci. Thanks !

Truly amazing build!! Now can you do the same thing in my house? lol Just kiddin. You have some awesome talent. May I ask how old you are and what you work/study?

Nice work sir please keep it up

your welcome Jeremynoticed after researching you that you sell your plans but I don't have a lathe or a welder so that's me outmay buy them anyway and get a local engineer to make it for me, I have a brand new scheppach ts315/or now the HS120it uses a t bar on a cam and its rubbish really really bad design, so I need something like you have made.regardsnick

phenomenal work. do you think it's possible to make a fence & rail system only out of extruded aluminum & parts readily available? basically plans for people who don't have metal shop equipment or welding experience.

fantastic job!!!

Thanks for the Video! Good job!

nice and pretty JOB

Jeremy, can you recall the source of threaded rod that actually had uniform thread spacing of 16 tpi ? I'm not sure whether it was one of your videos or someone else's that illustrated varied (inaccurate) thread spacing, a phenomena I've seen in other allthread. If you know, who sells the good stuff? Thanks.

wow. very impressive

I like your thoughts on the design. Did you ever think to do this all in wood? (Except for the lead screw)

hola muy buen video solo quisiera saber el tamaño del angular y las dimenciones tambien el tamaño del tubo y sus dimenciones por ejemplo si el angular de 3"x3"? y en que grosor y el tubo de 2"x 2" ? en que grueso o de que tamaño es

ESPETACULAR

well done

genius dude

I love the design and looks and the operation of this fence how ever can these plans be converted to wood cause I would like to try and build it but don't want to waste a bunch of wood to find out half way thru that it won't work using wood. ( I'm new too wood working and NEVER work with Metal so Please forgive the dumb question). But all in all I Love this fence. Now I'm trying to figure out how to make a table sled on a Ryobi RTS31 cause they did't put the miter channels on the table top any ideas?

Good job!

Felicidades muy bueno.!!!

Great idea, but what do you do when you need to take a 32nd or a 64th off of a piece?

все здорово, классно, но покажите замеры пожалуйста, прямой угол и замер бруска после распиловки!!!!

Extremely jealous of the lathe

What for have you been using the incremental positioning? Looks neat :)

Wow! This is exactly what I have been looking for. Would you consider making another to sell? If so, what would be your cost?

The etsy link seems to be broken?!!

If you're not a freakin Mechanical Engineer, you missed your calling.

Nice build build buddy :-) Is it accurate? Test it with a DTI?

Great! Maybe make this product for sale. make it smooth, paint it and sale!

Excellent

VERY impressive work and I really like the idea! Any problem finding a rod machined accurately enough over that distance? A lot of the normal threaded rod I've seen loses or gains as much as 1/64" over as little as 12"

“...and that’s it...” humblest of humble brags ever. That’s it? That’s impressive. Nice work.

I had this same idea, but i don't have your tooling (or skills) (...or creative brilliance). I'd pay money to buy this product from Incra, but it doesn't exist. The Incra incremental fence system for a router table is amazing, but the implementation on a table saw leaves some things to be desired in my humble opinion.