Kreg KMS7200 Bandsaw Fence

 (32 customer reviews)

This is the perfect accessory for a 14" bandsaw. It's solid, well-designed, versatile, and comes in first-rate packaging with an excellent guide for installation and use. You easily can set it up to compensate for blade drift -- the normal tendency for the blade to cut at a slight angle to 90 degrees. Once you do, you can make perfectly straight parallel cuts, something that's difficult without a fence and very frustrating with a fence that's not easily adjustable. There's a steel stick-on ruler and a small plastic magnifying cursor to help set the width of a cut.

Kreg offers a "micro-adjuster" accessory to help zero in on the dimension, but the supplied cursor lets you be very precise, so I'd skip that particular accessory. There are also two add-ons to help resaw wide boards, but unless you've installed a riser to open up th esaw to resaw 12" boards, you probably don't need the larger one, and if you don't have a riser you probably don't need the smaller add-on for...Read more

ANY fence would be better than most OEM fences, and so it is with the Kreg. I also have the Kreg table miter gauge. There is one thing that really bugs me about this fence and that is that the rail mounts to the left, where as the original hung to the right. This makes the already difficult process of blade changing much more difficult. With a carbide blade I end up damaging them. Trying to wind a 1/2" wide blade around this thing is a nightmare.

I solved this problem by slotting out the left bolt hole to the top so that I can just loosen it and let the rail swing down. If you do a lot of blade changes, you'll hate the thing. I detested it before I thought of making the modification, which takes only 10 min. to do by cutting it out on the saw itself. Just add a star washer under the bolt head to keep it from slipping down. Now I love it. Kreg should have thought of this.

Another negative point is that the fence does not maintain positive parallel to the blade...Read more

I bought the Kreg fence from a local store as an upgrade to my existing 14 inch bandsaw. It installed on my saw very easily using the ample hardware supplied by Kreg, and is a well made and accurate device. It's well worth the few extra dollars over the standard Taiwanese fences sold as accessories by the major manufacturers.

Among the many things to like about this fance is the ease with which it can be removed and replaced in case you need the extra depth on the table. By way of explanation; you loose about 2 inches (a 14 inch saw becomes a 12 inch saw) if you leave the fence in place and just push it back to the frame. If you need those few inches though, they are easy to recover because of Kreg's mounting system. Drift is easily accomodated for, but I (surprisingly) find that with my saw well adjusted and a good blade in place, I can cut remarkably straight using the fence alone. A pleasant surprise! Kreg also put thought into placing T slots that make adding sub fences...Read more