Fantastic Flip-stop fence for my SCMS!

Detailed plans available at www.stevemaskery.com/jig-plan...
This is my new flip-stop fence for my Sliding Compound Mitre Saw. It is straight, rigid, robust and accurate, and it's all made from recycled wood and a curtain track from IKEA!
If you have any questions, just ask in the Comments section. I do read them and will answer them if I can. Enjoy!

[@acerjuglans383]

Well done!
Cabinetmaker and jig builder, over here in Canada. New fan too.

[@JBuck-cu7xd]

Absolutely brilliant ideal to cut the stop. It will always be zero! One of those tips that is a real noggin slapper! Thank you!

[@Woodgate425]

Many thanks Steve, excellent stuff as always. More, more, more!

[@michaellovetere8033]

Great job bud....great design and you should get it made commercially and market it..

[@bensonyoutuber7944]

I really like the sacrificial stop portion. It seems easy enough to recalibrate that I might actually do it. And if I feel like batching out a bunch of cuts registered off of an mitered end, I can do that just as well.

[@SteveMaskery]

Yes, that is a good point. You could attach a V-shaped stop for extra support. It wouldn't be calibrated for zero, but at lesat you could work to just one pencil mark for as many cuts as you like.

[@mulisakbulisak6099]

Thank you!)

[@markbahlke9091]

Brilliant! As you say over there. That is truly a fantastic fence. And I want one for my SCMS. And it gives a handy excuse for a trip to Ikea. All awesome. "We can use that" -- The sound a genius makes when observing that a purpose made object for one use can be applied very well to a completely unrelated use - saving money, time, and improving the quality of that which is made. I love it!

[@SteveMaskery]

Genius? Aw, shucks, as you say over there. But I'll take it! :) Thank you.

[@SteveMonk1956]

Nice addition to the saw Steve, thanks for sharing.

[@SteveMaskery]

Thank you. Yes, I'm very pleased with it. I should have done it years ago.

[@CrossroadToCountry]

Saw this on Instructables. Love it! Subscribed to see what else you have up your sleeve.

[@danceswithaardvarks3284]

Thanks for the tip about the Ikea T track as the price of normal T track makes many projects too expensive for me. In fact I made a fence extension for my cross cut sled and never added a stop for this reason. I salvaged a flip stop from an 1980s Scheppach sliding table, found as roadside scrap) and it uses the exact design as yours (except it is metal of course). Thanks again, now I can finally add the flip stop and a scale to my cross cut sled.

[@worldsolutionsusa7996]

Very good!!!!!

[@SteveMaskery]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@gyulabujtor7378]

Thanks Steve, very good idea.

[@meadsg]

Steve, great job and video, love your videos!

[@SteveMaskery]

Thanks 👍

[@GWAIHIRKV]

I have the same saw. Very useful.👍🏻

[@stephan1906]

Yep, it´s fantastic! My favourite online-shop for t-tracks (or c-profile as we say here in germany) sells them for about 6 EUR per meter, that´s about 5 GBP. They just lowered the price about 12 %.

[@SteveMaskery]

I am jealous! :) Not many things coming down in price, these days.

[@MrPatdeeee]

Awesome!

[@SteveMaskery]

Thank you.

[@mewmew32]

lots to take away from this design! I'm just left wondering about the hardware, is that metal latch something commonly available at hardware stores across the pond? and to get a bolt that works nicely with the VITGA track it looks like I'll need to fabricate one myself? Or is that a modified off the shelf product also?

[@SteveMaskery]

The toggle latch is easy enough to find, but the sliding nut was part of an advertising board system. I used to be able to buy them by the hundred from a local hardware supplier. Indeed, I use to sell them from my website, But the manufacturers changed the design and they are no longer available. I probably have enough left to see me out, but they are easy enough to make from a piece of steel, 3mm x 12mm or so (1/8 x 1/2") filed to fit, then drilled and tapped. The Bristol levers are readily available online, I've never seen them in my local DIY sheds.