Looking to upgrade my mitre guage for my table saw. I have the Delta from lowes. Was looking at either the incra 1000hd or 1000se. Any opinions on which would be the better one to get from experience and why? Also open to other suggestions but dont want to spend over $300 on one. Thanks in advance for your responses.
I’ve got the he and love it. Honestly I don’t know how often normal folks need the ‘hd’ portion, but I’ve used it several times for dialing in segmented bowl pieces, as well as fitting non-perfect miters with their mate. Buy once, cry once…have the capability forever.
Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".
Simple, as RGi said "cry once"... better to have and not need, than need and not have... it's not like sheep stations between the two asking shekels... but then I have a "HD" face and cannot give a conclusive comparisson.
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
Keebs. I needed a spare. I have 2 TS's, and several sanders and other router tables and sometimes need to park a miter gauge, and didn't want to carry it all over the shop. Plus the one on my main TS, has a big fence on it most of the time, and I get tired of taking it off.
My goal was the best 100 dollah miter gauge I could find. I bought all on Amazoo that had free returns, and I did return every last one of them, all were trash, bought some from a few other places, and have to tell you amazon wins returns wars. I ended up getting the black one form Peachtree, it is very similar to the Kreg's I have been using since they came out, and out of the box it held up against my pricey machine shop angle, dead square out of the box, no playing or fussing needed.
GeorgeWest .... I bought all on Amazoo that had free returns, and I did return every last one of them, all were trash, bought some from a few other places, and have to tell you amazon wins returns wars. ...... I suppose you can buy a pricey one, but I am not sure why you would need to, all you want is an accurate one, this is that.
People amaze me at times... If you put a shekel value on frustration, time wasted, sleepless nights, looking for alternatives and eventually total them up... you may find you could have bought several pricey ones and still come out ahead.
The primary way to get a good accurate one, short of a mystic or a 4 headed coin (2b sure, 2b sure), is to buy all the shit that gets rejected first 🤑💵🤑
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD
I think the Incra heads are great for bang/buck, just don't like the slot width adjustment. If your TS miter slots are truly a nominal 0.750", you will find the 1000 hard to beat.
