A "built-in" electronic digital scale that measures movement of sliding bar and indicates cut location with extreme accuracy. It has separate top mounted LCD display and operates for full travel of the sliding bar. Large display reads in mm or in both decimal inch and fractions (your choice of 32nd, 64th or 128th reduced to LCD). The reader beam permanently mounts to back of sliding bar and the scale does not have to be removed when switching machine to other operations. To order you must specify length of your sliding bar.
When cutting dovetail and box joints, a great advantage of the Router Boss machine is that you can use any bit, any spacing, any number of pins and any size wood up to capacity of machine. Just as in hand tool woodworking you are not limited in what you can do. For dovetail pins the machine is set for pin angle, width and depth and will hold those settings for repeated joints. Standard practice is to control socket and pin spacing by aligning a cursor on a scale (ruler measurement) or mark on the machine before making cuts. This matches pin locations to socket locations. Our digital scale provides an alternative method. Using Router Boss's built-in laser guide or a centering bit, you can translate your pin pattern into digital readings then use those readings to locate the cuts for both the sockets and pins. Your cuts will exactly align, be easier to setup, and be as accurate and repeatable as with any template based jig, but without the limitations of the template.
See assembly diagram .
