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   woodensplinter | Feb 23, 2005 12:16am | #1

   I received the EB-3 miter gauge for Xmas.  Not overly extatic with it.  The fence was out of square with the guide bar.  E-mailed both Excalibur and Osborne.  Just got the run around from Osborne and nothing from Excalibur.  The best I can say about it is that its OK. Quallity control seems to be hit and miss with the EB-3.  I guess my advice would be to look elsewhere, unfortunately.

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   Dustmight | Feb 23, 2005 07:15pm | #2

   Unfortunately, a good friend of mine had similar experiences.....he ended with 3 different gauges trying to get a good one, but all were defective.  Osborne made alot of excuses...he's never really gotten the problem resolved.

   I know that many people have had better results, and that Norm uses one.  FWW did a comparison a year or so ago and rated the EB-3 "fair".  They liked the Woodhaven and Kreg, and had positives for the Incra 1000, but were less impressed with the value of the more expensive models.

    

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   billinIN | Feb 23, 2005 07:43pm | #3

   I have one and it was not "Calibrated" when I recieved it. There are instructions in the manual that describe the process.

   If you read and follow the instructions it worked very well.

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   woodensplinter | Feb 23, 2005 10:04pm | #4

   Sorry.  My explanation of my problem with the Osborne gauge wasn't very good. 

   My problem was that the fence leaned backwards, toward the operator.  It cut miters ok but if you, like me, tend to pull your workpiece tight against the fence, and are only doing partial through cuts, as in half laps, you would get a definite gap or misalignment of the joint.

   The "fix" was rather simple, two layers of electrical tape along the top of the fence mount did the trick.  The only problem now is I can only use the gauge on one side of the saw.  Its also something I'm going to have to keep an eye on.