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   jeffn7 | Sep 30, 2002 11:12pm | #1

   "true european saws"... as opposed to the "fake european saws"?

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   NormInFujino | Oct 01, 2002 02:22am | #2

   Hmm, I'd also like to get to the bottom of this. I asked someone on a forum several months ago whether the new Dewalt's was a splitter or riving knife and he told me it was a standard splitter (fixed in height, doesn't rise/fall with the arbor).  Maybe our communication was garbled?

     If it elevates with the arbor, I'd assume it should be the same as a Euro saw's riving knifer. I've been told several times during discussions like these that the reason the Euro saws and Ryobi Bt3000 can use a riving knife is because their blade elevation mechanism is different and allows the blade arbor to be raised perpendicularly to the table, while the traditional U.S. method is to incorporate the arbor in a trunion that pivots at one end; this causes the blade and arbor itself to pivot along a fore-back arc as it elevates. That arcing movement supposedly makes it very difficult to attach a riving knife and guard to the trunion or arbor, since the guard and knife itself would pivot as the blade was elevated.

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   MarkRoderick | Oct 01, 2002 02:34pm | #3

   I've played around with the DeWalt in the store and the knife/splitter seems to stay in the same position relative to the blade no matter what adjustments are made to the blade. So I'm confused as to whether the mechanism on say, a Felder or a Rojek works any differently (better).