BEST BANG FOR THE BUCK: Fulton Precision Miter Gauge with Aluminum Miter.BEST OVERALL: KREG KMS7102 Table Saw Precision Miter Gauge System.This comprehensive guide may help you find the best miter gauge for your woodworking needs. These invaluable tools range from budget models for basic joinery to high-precision devices for fine furniture making. The solution is to use a miter gauge, which holds the workpiece at the required angle to guide it into the blade by using a bar that connects into slots in the saw table. The only drawback is that a table saw’s blade can’t be rotated to cut angles. However, a miter saw can’t compete with a table saw when it comes to cutting wide boards or sheet material. Adding a stand makes it a great choice for job site use. A powered miter saw is often the tool of choice for cutting posts and narrow boards. It’s a quick and easy way to make picture frames, for example. Simple miters can be cut by hand using a miter box. If you want the ultimate in fit between your miter slot and the guide for your carefully-designed cross-cut sled, order the Woodpeckers Miter Bar today.The miter is perhaps the most common of woodworking joints. The bar is drilled and tapped in seven locations for 10-32 machine screws to help you attach different platforms…whatever your project calls for.

The T-washers come off with simple counter-sunk machine screws. If your saw has a T-track miter slot, the Woodpeckers Miter Bar has two stainless steel T-washers, not just one, giving you extra support when making wide cross-cuts. This improves accuracy by spanning inconsistencies in the miter slot and gives you an impressive foundation for your cross-cut sled or jig. To complement the leaf springs, we made the bar 25-1/2' long, the longest on the market. Even if the slot varies in width from end to end (and it probably does), the leaf springs expand and contract to keep the right edge of the bar perfectly tight against the miter slot wall. Our new patent-pending design has 5 specially-engineered nylon leaf springs built into the edge of the miter bar that automatically adapt to either undersized or oversized miter slots…no adjustments needed. Woodpeckers new Miter Bar solves many of these challenges. Never mind the worn-out condition common on older saws.

It’s not unusual for slots to be excessively wide and sloppy and even vary from end to end.

Unfortunately, that’s no longer the case. There was a time when the machining of the miter gauge slot in a table saw was held to strict tolerance.

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