45 degree bevel problems with ts55 on CMS table

[ChuckM]

If a situation is not applicable, it doesn't make the concept of proper terminology less valuable in situations that it's applicable. Terminology still helps when or where it can help.

 

[Eggy Toast]

Hello chaps, bare with me ( i am an amateur!) but i've come across this thread as this week i have set about making a couple of weather bars from a piece of 2x1. I needed to run a bevel along the length & it was then i realised the CMS/T55 wouldn't do this for me (or can it?). I used a plane in the end but am a bit peeved that i couldn't achieve this on the CMS & i couldn't get as sharp an angle on the weather bar i'd have liked with the plane. I'm just wondering how you would go about this yourselves as it seems to me now i'd have been better off purchasing a dedicated table saw (which would have been far cheaper!).

 

[Coen]

Yes. CS-50, CS-70, or any other brand of saw.

Especially since the CMS is no longer offered in the European countries, I would not buy into it if you don't already own some.

 

[Eggy Toast]

Hello chaps, bare with me ( i am an amateur!) but i've come across this thread as this week i have set about making a couple of weather bars from a piece of 2x1. I needed to run a bevel along the length & it was then i realised the CMS/T55 wouldn't do this for me (or can it?). I used a plane in the end but am a bit peeved that i couldn't achieve this on the CMS & i couldn't get as sharp an angle on the weather bar i'd have liked with the plane. I'm just wondering how you would go about this yourselves as it seems to me now i'd have been better off purchasing a dedicated table saw (which would have been far cheaper!).

As luck would have it Peter Millard has just released a video titled 'tricky track saw cuts' which shows me a decent way of getting over the problem i had. I had kinda realised but i was trying to do it with a thin strip of scrap wood i had lying around. Anyway, interesting video.

 

[Birdhunter]

You nailed the answer when you mentioned a good solid table saw could easily akethis cut.