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I have my saw set to cut a 1/32" over the reading.So I can then joint or plane to the desired size.

Could you elaborate on that a little? I don’t understand.

By the way, I ruined my precise stock. I wanted to see what it looked like finished so I sanded it a little and applied some linseed oil. Then I measured again and it was 1/128th narrower. LOL it’s beautiful stuff, though.

The wine is a ahem… color reference. :-)

Just a question. Did you recently change to a thin kerf blade?
The fact that the thin shaving cut pushed the blade away and the slight discrepancy in the rule have me wondering. It could explain both.

That’s a good observation, but, no. Same blade and it is thin kerf. I think I knocked the rule marker when I removed the fence for something. I’ll try to be more careful with that in the future. Sometimes I take the fence off the table to assemble things or paint, etc.

Pushing my measuring piece through very slowly solved the shaving/blade warp issue. That was a weird thing to find out. I kept moving the fence in very tiny increments and the measurements continued to be the same. LOL I knew I wasn’t crazy. I kept remeasuring to make sure I wasn’t just holding the caliper wrong. Haha. And now after sanding it’s 1/128th off again. I guess it will still be useful for a false crosscut fence. I think I can live with 1/128th out for 99.99% of my crosscuts. :-)

Sure Brian…I found it easier to cut everything oversized for the next operation.If I set my saw to 5" on the fence then it will cut 5 1/32".Then I run it through the molder for its finished dimension of 5".Doesn’t sound like much, but if your cutting 1000 different parts quickly, you don’t have to add for anything.Same goes for a lot of other machines I use.