I haven't tried this yet, but when I bought my Ultimat it came from the previous owner complete with the clip-in support arms and while moving a few things around I needed to move these out of the way.
While looking at these, it struck me that they appaer to be able to click-into either the front or the back of the Ultimat base-board. As I said I haven't tried this yet, but if this is true, then I think that the margin guide should also be able to lock into the back of the base-board too! If so, then it should work o.k. as a reverse bevel margin guide, (if a suitable correction factor is applied to the ruled markings).
Perhaps someone has already tried this knows if this is so!
Reverse bevel cutting on the Ultimat
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This could work - unless the margin is narrower than the cutting bar.
But no good for me - my ultimat is a 60" and putting the margin guide on the other side would take the measuring stop too far away from me.
Also it is sunk flush into the end of my bench - fitting the guide on that side would mean extending the bench - otherwise it would fall off!
I just cut face up, adding 1/4" to the start of cut stop and 1/8" to the end of cut stop to what they would be set at were it not a reverse bevel cut face down.
This (for me) results in a miniscule undercut finished by hand - not as good as a perfect cut the centre falling out perhaps, but no setting up required.
But no good for me - my ultimat is a 60" and putting the margin guide on the other side would take the measuring stop too far away from me.
Also it is sunk flush into the end of my bench - fitting the guide on that side would mean extending the bench - otherwise it would fall off!
I just cut face up, adding 1/4" to the start of cut stop and 1/8" to the end of cut stop to what they would be set at were it not a reverse bevel cut face down.
This (for me) results in a miniscule undercut finished by hand - not as good as a perfect cut the centre falling out perhaps, but no setting up required.