Guide rail square

[Guilliaume woodworks]

Does anyone have easy way of mounting a large woodpeckers or incra square to a guide rail without having to be a machinist? I'm mew to fog and just wanted to say thanks for all the members advice..its been great.also bought some aftermarket acces. that I discovered here!

 

[sancho57]

What exactly are you trying to do?

 

[Alan m]

welcome to the fog.
i mounted a large folding  square to my rail using rmws brackets.
works great

 

[Guilliaume woodworks]

Just thought it would be faster and more accurate.I sometimes check guiderail alignment with square before cut..this generally is in the field without mft

 

[Guilliaume woodworks]

Thx alan...rmws bracket? I'll look in to it...

 

[Peter Fish]

RMW is a member with great ideas and has posted often in the " Festool Jigs and Accessories " section
If you look through there you will see entries " Started by " RMW. These make great reading and the finished products are very nice indeed, great guy to deal with
Good luck
Peter

 

[peter halle]

Certainly not a polished solution, but this thread might give you some ideas:

A quick Cheap Way to Set Your Rail Square to your Work

Peter

 

[Trumpet]

Depends how accurate a square you need. In the field cutting, the dewalt T Square which fits the festool tracks fine is my solution. It is small though, so not super accurate, but it is durable and I don't worry about it getting knocked about.

 

[rmwarren]

Does anyone have easy way of mounting a large woodpeckers or incra square to a guide rail without having to be a machinist? I'm mew to fog and just wanted to say thanks for all the members advice..its been great.also bought some aftermarket acces. that I discovered here!

The brackets Alan and Peter so kindly referred to (thanks guys!) are left over from another project:

[attachthumb=#]

There is an old thread about adapting them to a 1/4" thick square here:

http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-jigs-tool-enhancements/guide-rail-t-square/

I recently purchased the big Woodpecker square and when I have time (and can force myself to drill into the beautiful red finish...) I plan to drill/tap it to add the little studs to it.

RMW

 

[Stone Message]

I recently made up an attachment for a guide rail that does the job. It is certainly cheap and cheerful, it took less than an hour to make and is accurate. I hope the pictures are self explanatory.

Peter

I rememered that I had posted a description of this at....

http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-how-to/guide-rail-tee-piece/msg229025/#msg229025

 

[Dongar]

I bought a Woodriver angle guide that with a very small modification work with the Festool rail. I keep it on my short rail and find it accurate.I never tried it for cross cutting a full 48" sheet. Discussed in this thread. http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-jigs-tool-enhancements/guide-rail-cross-cutting-jig/
Don