I recently picked up the Woodpeckers Saw Gauge, a clever little gadget, and I'm a sucker for clever gadgets.

Anyway, in the instructions for checking alignment between miter slot and rip fence, they say the following:

"You can set up your rip fence either parallel or slightly wide with the out-feed from the miter slot by .003" to .005" than the infeed. This tends to reduce burn marks and kick-back."

I guess I can kinda visualize how that would work, but it's news to me. Any thoughts?