This is a continuation of Table Saw Enhancement – Attaching Sliding Crosscut Table Without Cutting Down the Rails. Now that I’d removed my existing router table, I needed to relocate it to the right edge of my table saw. Since I use a miter slot on my router table and I wanted to avoid cutting […]
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My table saw is fairly decked out and I’ve made some modifications to it in the past but some of them weren’t working that well for me. My saw is a SawStop Industrial Cabinet Saw 3 HP single-phase, 230 VAC machine (ICS31230) with a 52″ fence system and the sliding crosscut table. As an experiment,
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This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 4 – Gluing up the new top. The top is all glued up so now I need to strengthen it by attaching 1/2″ plywood to the underside. I can then cut it down to the final size to prepare it for finishing. There were a few spots of
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This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 3 – Change of plans. Time to glue it all up. My worbbench/outfeed/assembly table has a torsion box top so it makes a good surface for gluing something like this up. I have a 1/8″ thick piece of hardboard that serves as a sacrificial top but I would still prefer
This is a continuation of Workbench: Part 2 – Gluing up the top. After gluing up half of the top, I repeated the process and got the other half glued up as well. Once it was dry I joined them together with glue and biscuits just like I did for the individual boards.
This is a continuation of Workbench Part 1 – Milling down some 2 x 4s. We got another snow day so this gave me an opportunity to work some more on my wife’s workbench. Now that the boards have all been milled down, it’s time to start gluing them together. For this project, I knew I was
My wife is a lot like me in that she likes to make stuff. She wants a workbench for her studio. The design we are thinking of consists of a one-inch thick top and a metal pipe framework for the legs. I’m going to worry about the legs later, but for now (since we had
The following is a training document that I put together for my coworkers. I have decided to share it here in case it helps anyone. What are dadoes Dadoes are slots, or non-through cuts, in material. They are “non-through” meaning that the blade doesn’t actually cut the material in two. Dadoes are defined as being
