New TS Crosscut Sled from Rockler

[radhak]

Got to know by their email : Rockler's introducing this TS Sled for $119.

Pretty nice, if over-priced for the ever-broke me; it does have enough value to make it worth the price, maybe.

But what I like is that if you click on the 'more images', you get to see beautiful details of the sled, enough to make one in the shop if so minded. I'm really tempted to copy this exactly, but with a wooden fence instead of aluminium.

The hardest part would be making the arc with the angle-gradations, I guess. As in, requiring extreme care and precision.

[milanuk]

It looks a lot like the 'Dubby' sled thats been out for years... wonder how they're getting around that one.

Then again, Nick Engler had some plans for one hat was very much like the Dubby also... albeit not quite as nice. It did have a couple tricks for laying out the angle graduations, IIRC. I think the trick was to work out the distance from the pivot point to the scale to where the degree marks were exactly 1/4" apart to simplify laying out the marks, and then I think he had them on a piece of mylar set into a recess routed in the top of the sled.

[LCHIEN]

marking an arc with a router is as easy as making a circle, using a router circle template... you have to have the exact center point as a pivot. You can make extremely clean circles with a router jig so you should be able to make extremely clean arcs. I'd make it then calibrate it precisely with a digital protractor and a marker.

[messmaker]

With the 'Dubby', You have a left and right side version.You need both or a "Double Dubby" to cut all the angles. How does the Rockler version get around this problem?