Re: Building a big brother for my X2
Thanks Ian, I would like to check the dovetail angles. Your comment "You can test the angles of the dovetail in the base part and the dovetail in the saddle by removing the gib and applying blue to the saddle sliding face......then slide the saddle dovetail against the base dovetail (without the gib in) and it will show if the two angle are exactly the same."
Doesn't make sense to me though. If you take the gib out, what keeps the saddle parallel to the Y axis movement? In other words, if the taper is different on each part, this method will not detect that, if the tapers are the same it would detect the dovetail angle but does that matter compared to the taper angle? With unmatched tapers, the saddle/gib would wedge and bind. With unmatched dovetail angles, the scraping should correct that - or so I thought.
cheers,
Michael
Reelsmith, Angling Historian, and Author of "The Reelsmith's Primer"
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