I'm new to woodworking and to this site, though have read and learned much here from you kind folks over the past few weeks. I'm setting up a shop in my basement and had a few questions for you overarm blade guard mavens:
1. Excalibur users: It sounds like the usual way people mount this is via an extension table to the right of the table--can one "easily" mount it without such a table, and if so, how did you do it? I have a new Grizzly 1023SL with the short rails and no table on the right, but was thinking about the Excalibur.
2. Although rather ambitious, I'm also thinking of building my own using Gordon Sampson's design as a starting point (http://www.woodcentral.com/bparticle...rm_guard.shtml). His mounts from the ceiling. Have any of you built a version like this, and has anyone done it in a way that lets you slide it around on some sort of rail on the ceiling, or at least lets you adjust it somehow if you move your saw around?
3. I bought a GRR-Ripper recently and was wondering how one uses it and an overhead guard at the same time. I don't see how one could, but as I say, I'm quite new to this so don't have a good sense of these things.
Thanks in advance for any input.
Rob