Festool MFS Fence System Instruction Manual page 25

adjustable spring loaded pin to use as an
edge reference at the other end.
For our purpose I suggest a couple of
simple shop made guide rail registration
Shop made saddle
saddles and a couple of shop made slid-
ing stops to hook over the back edge of
the work piece. Both are shown below.
By calibrating to the front edge of the
guide rail you can then use the ruler
markings to set the back edge stops to
exactly the same measurement time after
time.
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Place the guide rail down on the work
piece, place the guide rail registration
saddles on the guide rail and move the
guide rail until the back edge stops come
firmly up against the back edge of the
Shop made stop
back edge stops shown I made from
scrap UHMW plastic sheet that I buy in
bulk from a wonderful old fashioned
hardware store in Bellingham, WA, a fa-
vorite stop whenever we are visiting our
son and his family, but you can make
them just as easily from wood or what-
ever you have lying around your shop.
The guide rail registration saddles shown
fit snugly into the space between the rear
"T" track and the hat shaped ridge that
the Festool cutting and routing tools slide
along. That space is 32mm wide. I sug-
gest you cut your stock a bit wider than
that and then use a router to shave off
about an 8mm high rebate recess on
each side until it fits quite snugly in that
space. That hat shaped slide is about
6.5mm high so 8mm will give good clear-
ance. My material happened to be 19mm
thick and that works well with the 16mm
thickness of the MFS profiles.
work piece as is shown in the
photo on the previous page.
That will position your guide
rail a very precise distance
away from that edge on both
ends of the work piece so
you can cut a clean line that
is about as close to parallel
with the other edge of the
work piece as you can get.
And, you can do it on work
piece after work piece to
come out with multiple parts
that are as close to exactly
the same size as you are
likely to be able to measure.
The guide rail saddles and