FS-WA Angle Stop & Guide Extension Combo - Impromptu Parallel Guide?

[mino]

One quick comment from my recent use of it. The great feature, compared to a GRS 16, is that there is something above the material which prevents the weight of the square tipping the rail by raising the cutting side.

I used it for some dado work on 4x4 framing along with the GRS16 PE.

In the past, I would just use two of my GRS 16's to "restrict" the 4x4 having the squares tightly go from both sides of it. The problem was there is nothing preventing the 600 mm rail from constantly wanting to tip in the square side direction. Using one FS-WA and only one GRS solved this - the FS-WA preventing the tipping.

Based on this experience, I would advise anyone liking the TSO concept to still get _one_ GRS16 PE and couple it with the FS-WA.

I will see, but if I find I do not use the 2nd GRS 16 for a year or so, replacing it with the FS-WA, I will probably sell it and keep only one.

 

[TinyShop]

[member=71478]FestitaMakool[/member] - the one mod I didn't think to try! Yup, all good now.

 

[TinyShop]

The English auto translation function works pretty well so I concur that the presenter liked the tool. Using the five cut method, he realized only a .02-degree error the length of the work when in the 90-degree setting. Less clear is the accuracy he found with the tool set to 45-degrees.

 

[FestitaMakool]

The English auto translation function works pretty well so I concur that the presenter liked the tool. Using the five cut method, he realized only a .02-degree error the length of the work when in the 90-degree setting. Less clear is the accuracy he found with the tool set to 45-degrees.

Yes it does, if viewed through a browser on a “very personal computer” or via the browser on my iPad. But; the YouTube app on iOS does seldom work, I get ie in this instance, just German (which do help, but there’s som funny “text to speech” translations even within the same language [big grin])
I’ve noticed that after the video has been out for a while it kicks in with translation to English which is my default language in the app. Delay in translation for iOS?

 

[mino]

The English auto translation function works pretty well so I concur that the presenter liked the tool. Using the five cut method, he realized only a .02-degree error the length of the work when in the 90-degree setting. Less clear is the accuracy he found with the tool set to 45-degrees.

Yeah, but what he was testing is utterly non-representative. The guy apparently had no clue he was misleading buyers there.

The FS-WA "precision" - using the built-in detents - is only approximate and is entirely dependent on chance. The detents are not meant and cannot be really precise. For short cuts, that is usually fine though.

But for precise, 90-degree or other, angles, when you need precision over 1' or more, you MUST use an engineer's square to align it. That is the price of it being dual-sided. It provides flexibility but also means no "fixed" stop even for 90 degrees.

This is unlike with the GRS16 (or the FS-WA/90 clone) which is an engineer's square on itself.

That is not to detract from its value. I love the FS-WA! Possibly more so than the GRS as it is so flexible.

But it is not good to create the impression the FS-WA is (as) precise as the TSO GRS 16. Far, far from it. Like 10x far.

Fact is, the FS-WA is not precise but can be made precise when aligned using a known-good engineer's square. But not by itself.

 

[FestitaMakool]

I’ll agree on that Mino.

I’d love if it had a really positive and hard dents on 90° and 45° though.
This would probably have brought it to very acceptable level for shorter cuts.

And yes, I’d urge anyone to buy a TSO 90° square anyhow, especially if doing those cuts on a regular basis.