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   rslatm | Jun 22, 2003 03:04am | #1

   Can't really tell a lot by looking at the Laguna slider by looking at the website but do know the Excalibur and Exactor sliders. You'd not want the movable base on your saw with the Excalibur but the Laguna looks pretty decent. The Excalibur is accurate but needs finesse. The Laguna looks pretty rugged so I'd be having a good look at that one to purchase.
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   woodsmith | Jun 22, 2003 03:54am | #2

   Thanks for your reply regarding the Laguna vs Excalibur sliding table. A few more thoughts. First, I could keep the moveable base on the saw and add a moveable base on the slider as well if I got the Excalibur (they have it set up this way on several web sites). The Laguna looks sweet but looks so small in terms of sheet material support compared to the Excalibur (do you think this a serious drwback to the Laguna? Finally, how important is it to really use a slider for cut off's and occasional cuttung of sheet material for cabinet components?

   Sam

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   BenchMarkPhil | Jun 22, 2003 05:11am | #3

   It would seem to me that having a mobile base on the saw and slider would be an open invitation to create some form of mis-alignment every time it was moved; this would be a very large footprint in motion. I don’t have one so I can’t definitively say but it just seems like it would be a problem.

   How often are you ging to be breaking up full sheets, probably not very. This is the thing the excaiber is good at. There are some other options that will also fill this need, the jet slider being one of those. If you aren’t going to need the full 48”+ crosscut capability, you culd look at a smaller unit, namely the dewalt.

   As for using a slider for “normal” work, generally you’ll find they do real well at this too. Once you start using a slider, you won’t want to be without one.

   PMB

   http://benchmark.20m.com