Yeah I know what you're describing I think, i.e. a 'fake' fence on the front of the actual one, which is shimmed at one end to suit the angle required.
I'm just saying this is an alternative where I wouldn't need to do that, ie make a little curved block that would force the fence to use that as the clamp point instead of the two at the sides on that end. It'd then be free to rotate to an angle about that point, if you see what I mean.
It's just two different ways of solving the problem that's all.
And to answer the question Woody asked on the previous page that I somehow missed, no, it hasn't cut any curves with this blade. The previous blade had been twisted round all sorts of stupid radii(sp?) but I've only used this new blade a few times and straight each time.
It does go through hardwoods ok though so no issue there as I think Neil mentioned it might struggle with.
Obviously it's a case of you get what you pay for with these things, as with just about anything, but there's usually ways like this to work around their known shortcomings at least to a certain extent.
I'll never be able to justify the money for a really decent bandsaw, and even then I'm sure even expensive ones have their own issues still.
Like my horrible Ferm table saw. The cast metal table itself, full of grooves etc is horrible compared to the lovely smooth steel ones I see in all the videos, and tiny really so some jobs I want to do with it are difficult or not possible, but it cost me £30, and it works. I already took it apart and shimmed it straight where it wasn't, which gave a huge improvement as the blade wasn't square to all the alignment lines on the table. It's crap, but it's better than no table saw. Just.
