While the PM66 has proven itself to be all the cabinet saw I need, the Powermatic rip fence has never delivered the accuracy I require. As soon as I saw the Big Eye fence I knew it was the solution to my problem. Unboxing, it appeared every bit as well-engineered as I'd expected.

Installation involved:
-- Drilling clearance holes on the front skirt of the main table and extension table;
-- Drilling and tapping holes on the rear skirt;
-- Drilling clearance holes on the extension table rear skirt;
-- Cutting the supplied steel rod to 90mm and installing at the rear of the fence to account for the shorter depth (710mm) of the PM main table.

That was the extent of the machining needed to install both rails and the fence.

The fence kisses my Forrest Woodworker II blades perfectly in both high and low positions without needing further adjustment. I still need to check against at least one of my thin-kerf blades. The fence vs. either T-slot aligns front to back with only a couple thousandths (.001") variation. Locked vs. unlocked: no change. It wasn't necessary to add any of the supplied shims.

I can now take 1/32-inch slices from long stock with the expectation that their variance in thickness will be virtually undetectable with a micrometer, much less with the naked eye.

Love the adjustable scales; the long and short scales are easy to read. I anticipate the short scale on the left to get not a lot of usage as the left table extension has been replaced by an Excalibur sliding table. Perhaps I can use the short scale to establish the zero point for thin-kerf blades...

Overall a bullet-proof, engineering tour-de-force. Many thanks, Harvey...

The fine-adjust wheel needed nothing to tune it.

Moving from a contactor's saw to this is night and day. Plenty of power to rip 8/4 stock. The blade height and bevel adjustments are smooth and easy to use. I have a 2hp dust collector connected to it with about 20 feet of metal pipe from the collector to the saw and the dust collection is great. Just going to take some time to get used to the blade guard.

I installed the Bigeye on my franken-craftsman tablesaw - harvey router table to the left, "vintage" cast-iron extensions to the right - replacing a vega fence from 2004. Nothing wrong with the vega, so true to this day, but it was missing a number of the features I was looking for.

It was installed in less than 1 hr (for the most part, more on that later). The hardest part was moving the saw to get to the back. My existing mounting holes lined up without any need to drill, the eccentric bolts sliding in the t-track is a brilliant design!

On my table, the holes in the harvey router table are slightly higher than the cast iron tables on the craftsman, so being able to use different orientations on the bolts was a life-saver. Dialing it in was effortless.

My favorite features include the high-low fence, the stops on the rails, the t-track on the top of the fence, and of course the rear clamping.

The only annoying thing is you can only remove the fence on each end. This is unavoidable given the way the fence slides on bearings in the rail. But, in my small shop that means I can only remove the fence on the far left side forcing me to take lower the blade and remove the splitter, it's trivial, and with 52" to the right, I don't know if I'll ever need to.

The only problem I had was the two set srews on the stops for the scale (one each on two stops) could not be loosened with any standard hex key, it's like they were either stripped or milled for a 2.25mm hex key. They didn't look stripped but no hex key I own (or shipped with the fence) fit tightly enough to loosen the screw.

Harvey's cs came through, sending me replacement stops the same day, but I had to drill and use a screw extractor to remove the faulty stops. Scary on a brand new piece of equipment, especially at this price.

Overall, I love it! The stability of the fence makes ripping large sheet goods far more accurate and scary than my previous fence. Absolutely no deflection.

Love it

I almost gave Harvey 4 stars for the hassle of the installation. It’s on now and it’s everything I could dream for in a table saw fence. The only thing that could make it better is that digital readout I saw at Harvey’s booth in Atlanta IWF show early August. Only one question: Why isn’t the back rail the same length as the front?

Big guy fence is as smooth as butter

This fence is rock solid and full of best ever features. Installation was straightforward and it works flawlessly with router wing!

I have an Incra TS-LS on my SawStop pro cabinet. I upgraded and purchased a 5hp SawStop ICS and was looking at adding the Incra for it as well. In that timeframe, the Big-Eye released and I started watching videos from trade-shows and early purchasers. It was so compelling. I decided to go for it. One serious advantage over the Incra is the space savings. The incra fence need a full 52" clearance beyond the end of the table extension for the saw in order for the fence to open all the way, taking away an extraordinary amount of floor space. Additionally, if you leave it extended and bump it, it will potentially go out of alignment, a very easy thing to do.

The Big-Eye is an absolute dream to use. The clamping lever on the top is genius. The way it engages with the rails is so powerful it feels bolted down. The adjustability to fine tune everything was straight forward. The ability to slide the aluminum hi-low fence to be behind the blade is so handy. I used 3-2-1 blocks for that in the past, one step I'll never have to do again. The bearings glide very well, so moving the fence back and forth is very satisfying. The zero parallax scale viewing window is so nice, I wish I had it on everything, including the ST-1500 slider. The scale is very easy to read, my preference is always black hashes on a white background. Once I got it all calibrated I made a cut through 2 5/8" maple to test, not a hint of burn, and just the faintest whisper of saw marks - most of the cut surface was glassy smooth. My stock Biesemeyer fence from SS was wonky from the factory, with waves in the surface and VERY difficult to fine-tune. Total lemon of a fence, and dangerous. Burning on every cut, no matter how much I fiddled with calibrating it. To get a clean cut out the gate with the Big-Eye was an absolute dream.

I'm so happy to have this fence on my saw, the core of everything I do in my shop. I can't recommend this enough, it is a gamechanger for me and an engineering triumph for Harvey.

As an aside, this is my first order with Harvey and I've found the customer service response to be outstanding. I'm well pleased, and they've won more business from me in the future.

This fence and rail system for the table saw is made of the finest materials and is enhanced with the most accurate engineering I have ever used on a table saw. Although it is expensive in the way of cash, if you use a tablesaw in order to rely on, accurate preparation of materials for important woodworking projects this and rail system is superior and worth every penny.

The Big-Eye fence is simply the best fence on the market!