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1. 
   SteveSchoene | Nov 29, 2005 03:07am | #1

   How often do you do beveled rips?  The left tilt has a bit of an advantage since the blade tilts away from the fence. 

   If you use the scale on your rip fence, the left tilt will require changing every time you change the thickness of the blade.  I saw one post on this subject where the poster said he would have to adjust the right tilt scale too, because the set on the blade might be enough different to change the dimension a few thousands of an inch.  Can't imagine who would ever care, but... 

   Otherwise its just a matter of what you have used in the past and are comfortable with. 

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   JeffHeath | Nov 29, 2005 09:15am | #2

   With a left tilt saw, you can make bevel cuts without moving the fence to the left side of the blade.  With a right tilt saw, if you do that, you risk a kickback when the stock is wedged under the tilted blade and the fence.  With a right tilt, the safe way is to move the fence to the left of the blade before making any bevel cut, and you lose cutting capacity (width) when doing this.  It matters if you make larger mitered carcasses.

   Jeff

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   DonC | Nov 29, 2005 08:05pm | #3

   Read my old post 6853.6