Just unpacked my shop fox w1741 8" jointer and set er up. I was very please that the out and in feed tables were nice and planar out of the box. Plus both tables were perfectly flat up to .001 using a 36" straight edge.
When I went to set the fence I used my best 12" combo square to square it up. I put the square close to the cutters since I figured that was the most important point for it to be square. Locked it down and all should be good.
However then I decided to check the squareness at different points along the fence and they were noticibly off. All I did was slide the square from near the knives to the back of the fence and you can clearly see light between the square and the fence as I moved it away. Near the knives it looks perfect.
So - did I get a fence that wasn't ground perfectly flat? Or is this normal because it doesn't matter as long as it's square near the knives?