Why are the Victory cutting slats short and installed in a herringbone pattern?
We use short slats, never over 36″ of standard 4″x 3/16″ flat bar for cutting slats and install them in the herringbone pattern to make them last longer. When they are short, they are easy to pull out and invert to use the other edge or to exchange with other less used slats on another part of the table. The slats installed from the left hand end of the operator side and along that side get the most cutting time and wear out the fastest. The angled installation helps reduce the chance of a long straight cut right down the top of a slat. We get over a year’s use of our slats by reversing and exchanging them. There are slat holders every three inches, so the additional slats can be added or slats can be moved closer together if cutting a lot of small parts. When cutting a lot of large parts the slats can be farther apart. The 6″ on center slats that a Victory is supplied with seems to meet the majority of uses.
