When you first adopt them they can be kind of angry and/or scared but with a little love they begin to open up and do what you ask of them.

Maybe their intended for small machines, with cambered tires, as they are much too short to be used as is. As best I can tell, they sit on the bandsaw behind the teeth, so removing any inaccuracy of a square running acros the blade and the offset of the teeth. The length of the Companion greatly exaggerates the path of the blade, making it much easier to measure its relationship with the miter slot. This way a person could move the pin to the opposite end of the ruler when using it as a stop ruler.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). It is used to align the fence to the blade by exaggerating the direction of the blade and offering the fence up to it enabling you to adjust the angle.

The Bandsaw Companion tool answers how to get the blade, miter slot, and fence parallel to each other to eliminate drift.I did what he did on my bandsaw and I've only did one test cut but I was able to cut a test piece 0. I straightened it to stop it from rocking because I did not see any point in sending it back to get a placement. Making a cut parallel to the blade keeps the blade from tending to torque to the side, resulting in tight and smooth saw kerfs.