Cutting
Edge Table Saw Tips & Tricks
by Kenneth Burton
Softcover
215 x 280mm
128pp
Published by Popular Woodworking Books, Ohio USA
R.R.P.$39.90
ISBN 1-55870-623-2
ON BACK ORDER
Wall-hung Spice Cabinet
Tabletop Valet
Demilune Table
As reviewed in The Australian Woodworker Issue 114
The tablesaw is one of the most versatile machines in the workshop. Cutting-Edge Table Saw Tips and Tricks shows you how to use your saw safely and efficiently with dozens of tricks and techniques to improve your skills.
Topics include essential operations, joinery, shaping, cutting sheet stock and tuning your tablesaw, with Hot Tips boxes appearing throughout each section. There are also projects to test your saw's new found capabilities - a wall-hung spice cabinet, a tabletop valet and a demilune table.
Author, Kenneth Burton, begins by discussing the four types of tablesaw and their setting up. These include adjustments to and the safe use of guards for ripping, installing custom made splitters, plans for push sticks, and how to flush trim, straight-line rip and crosscut. The section finishes with the correct use and set-up of jigs such as a mitre gauge extension fence, a mitre gauge and an adjustable stop block. Hot Tips in this section cover the operation of a hairline pointer on the rip fence and plans for a mitre sled.
The versatility of the tablesaw is apparent when Burton illustrates the range of joints it can cut. These include dadoes and grooves, rabbets, tongue-and-groove, lock joints, box joints, dovetails, tenons, slip joints and mitre joints.
Shaping work can also be performed to cut tapers, make mouldings and form covings. Burton includes a plan for a cove jig and details its use. There are also suggestions for using a moulding head, sanding, using and making a featherboard, cutting to a pattern and kerf bending. One of the Hot Tips is to build up a sample library of profile mouldings for future reference.
Cutting Sheet Stock provides recommendations for the set-up and handling of larger stock, cutting guidelines, working with a limited rip capacity and reducing tear-out.
Tuning Up Your Saw assists you to correctly align the blade, carry out machine maintenance such as motor lubrication, and maintain and safely store saw blades.
When you’ve digested the information and correctly set up your tablesaw, its time to put your new found knowledge to work on the three projects. Comprehensive drawings with measurements in Imperial and Metric, a hardware list and step-by-step photo galleries with supporting text make the cutting and construction process much easier.
Cutting Edge Table Saw Tips and Tricks is a worthwhile addition to your workshop library.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial
Contents
Introduction
Essential
Operations
Types of Saws
Saw Blades
Shop-Made Splitters
Push Sticks
Flush
Trimming
Straight-Line Ripping
Crosscutting
Miter Gauge Extension Fence
Miter
Gauge
Making Short Crosscuts
A Crosscut Sled
Joinery
Cutting
Dadoes and Grooves
Cutting Stopped Grooves
Cutting Rabbets
Cutting Tongue-and-Groove
Joints
Cutting other Tongue-and-Groove Joints
Making a Lock Joint
Cutting
Box Joints
Box Joint Jig
Cutting Dovetails
Cutting Tenons
Cutting
Tenons with a Dado Cutter
Cutting Slip Joints
Making the Tenoning Jig
Cutting
Miter Joints
A Miter Stop Block
Reinforcing Miter Joints
The Spline Carriage
The
Miter Sled
Shaping
Cutting
Tapers
Making Mouldings
Cutting a Picture Frame Moulding
Cutting Coves
A
Better Cove Cutter
Cutting a Half Cove
Using a Moulding Head
Sanding
on the Table Saw
Featherboards
Cutting to a Pattern
Kerf Bending
Cutting
Sheet Stock
Setting
up to Handle Sheet Stock
Cutting Sheet Stock
A Cutting Guide
Working
Around a Limited Rip Capacity
Reducing Tear-Out
Tuning
up you saw
Adjusting
the Table Saw
Lubricating a Table Saw
Looking After Blades
Which Cleaner
To Use
Making Throat Plates
Making the Initial Cut
Adding Power
Blade
Stabilizers
Projects
Wall-hung Spice Cabinet
Tabletop Valet
Demilune Table
Suppliers
Index