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  • Micromark Bandsaw Table Angle Gauge Tweak

    Mostly, the Tiny Bandsaw™ cuts thin sheets, where having the blade at a slight angle off perpendicular doesn’t make much difference. I recently started to cut a thicker block and thought the blade looked a bit slanted, so I deployed the Tiny Square™ to set it properly:

    MicroLux Bandsaw - blade perpendicular
    MicroLux Bandsaw – blade perpendicular

    Which produced this result on the blade angle gauge under the table:

    MicroLux Bandsaw - table angle offset
    MicroLux Bandsaw – table angle offset

    Huh.

    The scale pointer is printed on what’s basically a sticker. The QC regime for the bandsaw apparently doesn’t ensure the pointer appears at the proper place on the sticker, nor does it verify the overall alignment.

    I peeled the sticker off off, trimmed the near edge, and re-stuck it with the pointer aimed properly:

    MicroLux Bandsaw - tweaked table angle scale
    MicroLux Bandsaw – tweaked table angle scale

    It makes me feel better, anyway …

    Now, as why they put the scale pointer behind the table clamp knob, where it can’t be seen directly, that remains a mystery.