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For folks who own the FS-WA (577040), did any of you also purchase the "Guide Extension" a.k.a. FS-WA-VL (577041)?
Anyone unfamiliar with it can watch Frank rather embarrassingly demo it here:
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Anyways, the Angle Stop paired with a single Guide Extension, at a package cost of between US$195 and US$250 (depending on which side of the pond you reside), would appear to offer some repeatability in not only cutting material to length (as shown rather awkwardly in the above video) but also processing sheet goods (in lieu of a set of parallel guides) as demonstrated a couple of years ago by fellow FOG'er [member=4105]tjbnwi[/member] using TSO kit:
Now, the graduations on the stock guide extension are limited in length to 45" (1160mm) - the graduations don't extend all the way to the end owing to the design of the flip stop (which uses up a lot of real estate aft of it) - so that's a limitation.
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And another limitation is that there's no allowance for producing rips narrower than about 17" (430mm).
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However, these limitations aside, it looks like this combo could be put to use in a pinch as an impromptu single arm parallel guide. I wonder if Festool realizes the potential here and if a Version 2.0 might be in development that expands on the idea? Good opportunity to redesign the Festool parallel guides which are starting to look a little prehistoric in the face of all the competing versions now in the marketplace.
Finally, for anyone contemplating adding a second length of extrusion: at first it occurred to me that one could potentially expand the capacity by adding a second length of guide extension. But then I realized this won't work given how the flip stop relies on one of the two t-tracks on the underside of the extrusion, the same t-tracks that the connectors use. Bummer that. If the flip stop instead relied on a t-track located on the top face of the extrusion then this idea would have legs.
Nonetheless, I figured I'd share this potential use for anyone who hadn't yet thought of it.
For folks who own the FS-WA (577040), did any of you also purchase the "Guide Extension" a.k.a. FS-WA-VL (577041)?
Anyone unfamiliar with it can watch Frank rather embarrassingly demo it here:
=5s
Anyways, the Angle Stop paired with a single Guide Extension, at a package cost of between US$195 and US$250 (depending on which side of the pond you reside), would appear to offer some repeatability in not only cutting material to length (as shown rather awkwardly in the above video) but also processing sheet goods (in lieu of a set of parallel guides) as demonstrated a couple of years ago by fellow FOG'er [member=4105]tjbnwi[/member] using TSO kit:
Now, the graduations on the stock guide extension are limited in length to 45" (1160mm) - the graduations don't extend all the way to the end owing to the design of the flip stop (which uses up a lot of real estate aft of it) - so that's a limitation.
[attachimg=1]
And another limitation is that there's no allowance for producing rips narrower than about 17" (430mm).
[attachimg=2]
However, these limitations aside, it looks like this combo could be put to use in a pinch as an impromptu single arm parallel guide. I wonder if Festool realizes the potential here and if a Version 2.0 might be in development that expands on the idea? Good opportunity to redesign the Festool parallel guides which are starting to look a little prehistoric in the face of all the competing versions now in the marketplace.
Finally, for anyone contemplating adding a second length of extrusion: at first it occurred to me that one could potentially expand the capacity by adding a second length of guide extension. But then I realized this won't work given how the flip stop relies on one of the two t-tracks on the underside of the extrusion, the same t-tracks that the connectors use. Bummer that. If the flip stop instead relied on a t-track located on the top face of the extrusion then this idea would have legs.
Nonetheless, I figured I'd share this potential use for anyone who hadn't yet thought of it.
