Please help. I'm burning maple when I make rip cuts. Both sides of the cut burn. I must have some sort of alignment issue, but I can't figure it out because both sides burn. I've used an alignment guide. The miter guage is parrallel to the saw blade. The fence is parallel to both, maybe even 1 thousandth wide at the back of the blade to avoid binding.
I have a riving knive, and it is centered, and about 5 thousandths narrower than the blade on each side.
I'm stumped. I'm aobut to just start experimenting with tweeking the fence and seeing what happens, but it took me the better part of a day to get everything so close. I have tried other pieces of maple, and other woods, and they also burn. I don't have an extra blade but there doesn't seem to be any warp in the blade according to the alignment guage.
Any help before I start experimenting would be appreciated.