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   vacabby | Jan 25, 2003 06:35am | #1

   I have a Bies on one table and a Uni-fence on the other.    For many years both have done everything I need them to do.    I am a professional woodworker.   Not a machinist.    A properly set-up piece of equipment will do everything you will require of it.    Take that all important 30 seconds to set up the proper distance from the blade to the fence and get after it.    I think this 1000000th of an inch stuff is way out of hand by manufacturer's and just as highly overated.    It's a matter of what you want the machine to do.   Do you want it to do everything or do you expect somewhere along the line to develope  some skills?    I calculate my angles and transfer them to the table and blade with the use good ole rules and squares.   I've never built a drawer that wasn't assembled with dovetailing and I've never used a power tool to cut a dovetail.   I committed myself to learning the craft from my grandfather.   Though I admit I use power tools for things that my grandfather would have never though of and would probably would scoff at, I still use the skills I have developed to construct my product.   My grandfather, at 102+ years of age, told me that woodworking was about getting it right not being perfect.    Though I'd like to think it's pretty close to perfect I'm more proud of the fact that I am doing it right.   Does getting that side panel cut right down to a thousandth of an inch really matter?     Yep.....but only to the manufacturer that made the device.  

   jb