Hi all, I spend a fair bit of time on the Breaktime forum but this is my first post here. I’m a journeyman carpenter working for a large Canadian commercial contractor, and I also do some side work for myself – mostly finishing and architectural work.

I’ve been putting off buying a table saw until I can build a shop and house it properly. The eventual plan is to set up a home shop and use it to support my side work and maybe even take on some cabinet or furniture work. But… looks like those plans are going to have to wait a while yet (the ol’ time-money non-continuum). But in the meantime I still need to buy a table saw. It won’t be a big cabinet saw as it is going to spend its first couple of years chained to a column in my carport, moved into place when needed and maybe even taken to the odd job site.

So this means buying one of the so-called ‘contractor’ saws. The ones I’ve seen and used have pretty limited fences, both for accuracy and rip capacity. Is anyone aware of a better performing fence/rail system that can be fairly easily mounted to the saw or removed when required for transport? I can easily enough build an extension table but it’s the fence that I need ideas on.

TIA,

Wally