Is a RazorGage Positioner the Right Upgrade for Your Cutting Shop?
Ask any cabinet shop owner where the money leaks, and you'll hear the same two answers: wasted material and wasted time. A tape measure and a pencil work fine for one cut. By the five hundredth cut, they don't. That's the gap a RazorGage Positioner fills. It's a programmable saw stop and pusher that moves your material to the exact length you need, cut after cut, without anyone squinting at a tape. In this post I'll cover how it works, what's inside it, which versions exist, and whether it makes sense for your shop. What Does a RazorGage Positioner Actually Do? A RazorGage Positioner is a motorized stop that runs along a beam next to your saw. You load a cutlist, and it moves to the first length. You push the board against it and cut. Then it jumps to the next length on its own. Nothing gets guessed, and nothing gets scribbled on a scrap of wood. You can run it as a stop, where the operator pushes the stock, or as an automatic pusher that moves the stock for y...