Procedure - "Cutting Exact Same Widths on the Festool MFT"
The Festool MFT is a great table for
cutting wood of many sizes and shapes. But is there a way to cut wood
repeatably to an exact width?
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In the picture above, Elena is picking
up her very first "exact cut" plywood using our new "digital width fence."
She set the fence for 2.25 inches and made her cut.
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And here is the cut — exactly 2 1/4" wide and this dimension is reproducible without any further fence adjustment. That is great for face frame building and many other tasks. |
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I will show you how the digital fence
works, but will backup a bit. To make it work, the measured cutoff will
remain under the fence and the main piece will be to the right of the table.
In that case, I decided that we would need an extension so that the offcut
will not fall to the floor.
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The extension comes assembled. All Elena needed to do was to move the support leg back and forth in its track to adjust for height. |
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The extension uses this mounting bracket which slides smoothly into the table's extrusion. |
She uses a long straight edge to help her make the extension level with the MFT work surface. |
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The one "leg" is not a leg at all but a support rod that fastens to the tables crossbar. |
After abut 15 minutes adjusting support brackets, Elena make one final check of the extension. It is perfect. Time to make cuts. |
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With the MFT meant to be multi purpose and easily changed, we wanted to install the digital fence so that it would be solid as a fence but easily changed. She is using one of the adjustable hold-downs to clamp the digital fence to the MFT fence. |
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