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Customer Review: This is an outstanding fence
When I purchased the Bench Dog cast iron router table wing for my tablesaw, this is the fence that was included. I am thrilled with the quality and design of this fence. I have noted many things that I wanted to share, including: 1. The fence is very ridgid and straight 2. It locks down tight without warping or twisting out of square 3. The sub-fences are dead flat and easy to adjust and actually remain square to the table in every position 4. The dust port is relatively efficient when used with my Fein Turbo II 5. There are several tracks that accept the excellent Bench Dog feather boards 6. Though I don't joint boards on my router table, there is a very clever and accurate way to do so with this fence Honestly, there is nothing here that I don't like. The only complaint I had initially was that the lockdown knobs were a bit hard to turn because the plastic hadles were molded incorrectly (the plastic was rubbing the threads of the bolt). One call to Bench Dog had a couple new ones at my doorstep in 3 days. If you have need for a router table fence, I don't think you can do any better than this one!
Customer Review: Don't Fence Me...
I bought this fence as part of a package that included the table and top as well. The basic structure of the fence is heavy machined aluminum (with front and back t-tracks) using MDF for the running boards. Clear plastic parts form the bit guard and dust port. One of the nicer features of this board are a pair of metal bars (or shims) that fit into one of two pairs of slots these allow for offsetting oun side by either 1/32 or 1/64 of an inch for light horizontal jointing. The fence uses a cantilevered gripping system to hold the fence in position, and thereby lies the only rub in this design. Because this gripping system has to be loose enough to avoid binding it's a bit sloppy and setting up takes concentration. I found it more precise to make the fit tighter than recommended. It still to concentration to set the fence, but stayed a bit truer. This was a surprising design decision (to me anyway) and I'm likely to replace with one of Jessem's one fine day. In the meantime, it will work better than almost very fence I've seen. There are countless accessories for this fence - hold downs, risers, you name it. Changing the MDF boards is easy enough to justify having a set of zero-clearance boards. For it's price, this is a very fine fence. [Part III of 'How to Build a Really Expensive Router Table']


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