The "first CUT is the deepest"

[AndrewNaylor]

A little help please

I am just starting my ECHO cross section and was wondering if anyone had a jig for setting the hight of a circular saw blade for use later.

I am Lifting the blade up and watching till the timber lifts in a previous cut to re set the depth but I feel this is a little hit and miss and getting a calibrated square in by the blade and trying to read the scale is very hard as the increments are very close at the start of a metal ruler 

Thanks Andy

[NMBROOK]

Hi Andy

If you are using a close clearance insert in the table,I find the depth gauge on the end of a digital vernier handy.Rock the blade back and forth by hand to ensure you are measuring the cutting edge at top dead centre(obviously disconnect power before hand etc etc)

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

[cwboland]

Lee Valley has many different depth gauges available. You may want to check them out. Or even your local hardware store or lumber yard

[gjdale]

Andrew,

 

Micromark sell a couple of digital depth/height gauges that are relatively inexpensive. The method described by Nigel also works well.

[mtaylor]

Do you have a set of calipers?  Electronic or otherwise?  I use one for that.  Or... take a piece of scrap and mark the blade height a known reference point (dead center if possible). 

[AndrewNaylor]

Thank you all

I have a set of digital calipers and will set to work with them 

but will look out for all the other methods mentioned and check out Lee Valley

Andy