Introducing the UJK Parf Fence - a must for MFT3 or custom benches

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I woke up to an email from Axminster telling me the Parf Fence was now in stock.  Jumped out of bed and grabbed the laptop.  It let me put it in my basket but when I went to pay for it, it told me it was backordered, arggggg.  But, it did let me place the order, with the backordered part.  So who knows when or if I will get one.  Frustrating...

Hi Rick,

I tried to call my contact at Axminster to check on this for you but got no reply. He does spend a lot of time between his desk and the shop floor where the kit is made. I am away on business for the next 2 days and will not be able to dig any deeper for you but you can message me and I will pick it up on Friday and try and help then.

Peter

 

[Rick Herrick]

Hi Rick,

I tried to call my contact at Axminster to check on this for you but got no reply. He does spend a lot of time between his desk and the shop floor where the kit is made. I am away on business for the next 2 days and will not be able to dig any deeper for you but you can message me and I will pick it up on Friday and try and help then.

Peter

Hi Peter.  Thank you for that.  I hope its just a web site issue.  I have seen those before.  Be safe on your business trip.

 

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Hi Rick,

Many thanks.

My email address is on my profile page if you need to get in touch.

Peter

 

[Dusty.House]

I was the same, saw the email, went to buy but they are on back order still....

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I was the same, saw the email, went to buy but they are on back order still....

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Ditto what I said to Rick.

Peter

 

[Dusty.House]

I was the same, saw the email, went to buy but they are on back order still....

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Ditto what I said to Rick.

Peter

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[member=72312]Rick Herrick[/member] and [member=67145]Dusty.Tools[/member]

Just spoken to Axminster...

There are about 200 going into stock tomorrow. The last lot went into stock and then sold out within a week ! They are doing their very best to keep up.

I raised the issue of overseas customers being able to do a back order and they are looking at sorting that out. It is, so I am told, quite complicated but please don't ask me why.

I am going to be out of comms for the next 2 days.

Good luck guys.

Peter

 

[Claimdude]

Thanks Peter! I was able to place two on BO day before yesterday for US shipment. When I looked last night the BO option for the US is no longer an available.

Jack

[member=72312]Rick Herrick[/member] and [member=67145]Dusty.Tools[/member]

Just spoken to Axminster...

There are about 200 going into stock tomorrow. The last lot went into stock and then sold out within a week ! They are doing their very best to keep up.

I raised the issue of overseas customers being able to do a back order and they are looking at sorting that out. It is, so I am told, quite complicated but please don't ask me why.

I am going to be out of comms for the next 2 days.

Good luck guys.

Peter

 

[Rick Herrick]

Hi Peter, thanks again for checking.  Hopefully my backorder order will come in.  Fingers crossed.

 

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TSO is waiting for delivery availability of our Parf Fence stock to join the rest of the AXMINSTER TOOLS inventory we always carry in our Minnesota warehouse.

Our TSO INSIDER newsletter will announce the availability to all subscribers.

Hans and Eric

 

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[member=61691]TSO_Products[/member]

I look forward to you carrying the Parf Fence. I was only able to order one when it first got released and have been unable to order another since then. Too bad you don't carry parf anchor dogs, since I just ordered 4 pairs, and might have an uncontrollable dog addiction.

 

[Rick Herrick]

I got mine in from Axminster 2 days ago.  Finally a chance today to try it out.  Absolutely brilliant.  I do wish I had bought 2 of them though.  Need to figure out a nice way to put some measurement device together.  I don't think much of the stop that came with it but it will do until I come up with something else.

 

[vkumar]

[member=72312]Rick Herrick[/member] did you look at the bencdogs.co.uk offering on their new fence . Curious to know what you thought of them compared to the UJK fence

 

[Rick Herrick]

[member=72312]Rick Herrick[/member] did you look at the bencdogs.co.uk offering on their new fence . Curious to know what you thought of them compared to the UJK fence

Hi Vijay.  If you are referring to the one in this video below, I just watched it this morning.  It did have some type of measuring assistance but overall, I thought it was a little, I don't know, hokey?  Don't mean to disparage it but way too many parts/pieces and fiddling with (it may just be over my head).  I put the UJK fence on my test table with some Super Parf Dogs in some offset holes and did a quick 5 cut test on a piece of 18"x18" 3/4 ply.  It was more than I could hope for and very little fuss.  Still trying to figure out the TDS-10 dog plates for repeatable cuts, but getting there..



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[Dusty.House]

I was finally able to order three today from Axminster

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I was finally able to order three today from Axminster

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Since your previous post on 15th Axminster had a large consignment go into stock only to disappear within 2 days. They have just put another load into the warehouse with about 50% fulfilling back orders.

Axminster have now tripled the number of staff in their manufacturing workshops in order to keep up with the Parf range. I know that they have put a lot of social distancing measures in place throughout their HQ but am not sure how that affects manufacturing. I will inquire next week.

Peter

 

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@peterparfitt

Hi peter, I don’t suppose you know about a decision on a longer length?

I and others posted about this (some want shorter - that’s easy just cut one down)

I would buy two straight away but refuse to at moment. Obviously in this batch run they just did the same offering. So easy to setup for longer length.

600mm doesn’t even give a cut to produce say kitchen / office desk types panels which are in region of 600-800 long at least.

 

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In order to make an accurate cut there is no need to have the full 800 mm of your stock against a fence. The 600 mm length is more than enough.

Peter

 

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@peterparfitt

I understand in terms of accuracy 600 is fine but the stop can’t be set on fence to suit larger panels. Would have to set a separate stop for longer panels, such as a home made one / the tso ones, or even the adjustable ujk stop. This would be the case for when doing a panel say 1500mm long as I wouldn’t  expect a fence to be produced that long.

I just think the 600 length has been made in relation for the mft size, doing small things. One that is at least 800 or 1000 opens up things for larger projects on same fence before one has to resort to other type of stop.

Bench dogs in Uk has a fence system with a flip type adjustable stop along with scale (so one can set more than one stop-extra one bought separately) however Ime suspect on the quality of the 3D printed stops, so am avoiding this system. Maybe they will improve on stops in future but at least they make them over 1000mm from memory -think there are some different sizes that offer.

 

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The beauty of a top created with the Parf Guide System is that it is so accurate that you can use a pair of the Parf Fences on the same side and setup exactly how you wish. The 600 mm length is a good compromise to allow MFT3 users and custom tracksaw users take advantage of the same system.

Peter