How's my riving knife clearance look? Wood pushes hard Delta 36-725T2

Well.. in picture the riving knife seems skewed.

It does look that way by quite a bit. I’ll take another photo with better lighting. It did not appear to be when I took the photos

-- Dave Hillsboro, Oregon

Yeah, it maybe a shadow I’m seeing. Any stress in the wood that could be closing the cut?

The wood was higher grade 2×4 from Home Depot but they were still 2×4’s from HD, so you know how that goes. No major warping or twisting though.

Here are some photos I took just now. It may be skewed a hair to the outside. The last photo makes it look worse than it is. The ones taken from the left side show it better. Would that be enough to cause any binding? It would be skewed to the outside of the fence and the off cut piece

-- Dave Hillsboro, Oregon

Is your riving knife a lot thicker than your blade. it may be forcing your wood apart at the cut and then forcing it tighter to your fence. Just a thought. Mel

-- MEL, Kansas

That was what I initially thought. The teeth are quite a bit wider and the blade body is about .2mm thinner.

-- Dave Hillsboro, Oregon