On Sep 26, 2024, at 3:31?PM, korywat via groups.io <korywat@...> wrote:

I'm looking at SCM and Felder shapers recently and have come to think that the readouts on the fences may have a big impact on my repeatability. This is pretty important as I change cutter heads very often (1 shaper for my hobby shop).

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Newer SCM Machines have a fence with a numerical readout. To me, this seems like it would be dirt easy to get the same fence positioning every time, because you just write down a number.

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VS the Felder fences have what looks like a less specific readout:

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I'm wondering what your experience has been using the Felder fence. It's not at all clear to me how "repeatable" a fence position is.

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For background, I'm comparing similarly-specced and the F700Z. The F700Z is considerably cheaper but one of the main items that concerns me is the fence.

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Thanks!

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Kory

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