Freehand With a Table Saw 🤕
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2023
- Don't do it!! Beside the fact that you'll probably mess up your cut, you just might hurt yourself badly.
And no, not just with the blade, but with the wood!
So should you freehand with a table saw?
Watch the video to find out!
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As a professional carpenter myself. It’s an INSANE move to do. I agree with your video. Untill a person has a kickback on a table saw they truly cannot appreciate how deadly or injurious it is. It’s like the wood got shot out of a shot gun. I know. It happened to me in highschool. I will never EVER forget it.
I can’t even imagine making a cut without the fence or miter gauge or my go too, my sled. Not to mention, how do you get a straight cut without a reference.
Wow. Thanks for sharing!!!
Cross cut yes but rip not bad just don’t stand behind the piece
What!!! No denim shirt 😮
Clickbait title. Didnt even do any freehand cuts. Or show us how.
Freehand cuts are no more dangerous than using a circular saw, arguably less, depending on the cut.
I get what you are saying but I free-hand occasionally when there is not a good alternative and have not had a problem (I am very cautious, however). I have caused, and been injured by, kickbacks when using a fence. I would like to see suggestions on making cuts when you really cannot support the workpiece.
I used to work in furniture mill. As part of my job, I taught my crew how to use power woodworking machines -- including the table saw -- safely. There is no safe way to free-hand something at the table saw. When there's 'no good alternative', you simply don't make the cut using the table saw. Period. In the worst case, you use a hand saw to make the cut. (If you cannot cut accurately with a hand saw, cut outside the line and sand to the line. It may take time, but it's safe.) If I knew what you were trying to do, I might be able to teach you how to do it safely on the table saw. But, there are a few cuts that are simply too dangerous to make on the table saw. This is one of them.
Permit a war story: I used to work in a furniture mill. I ran the parts crew that cut all the parts the rest of the mill used to assemble the furniture we made. I had a crew of about 20 men. One of those guys spent most of his day ripping items at the table saw. He ripped dresser and night stand tops, cabinet sides, stretchers, drawer parts, face frame styles and rails, etc. He ran a lot of wood through his blade each and every shift. I only had one problem with him. He kept pushing the off cut past the blade with his left thumb. You should never do that! (It's not as dangerous as cutting fee hand, but it's still dangerous.) I kept correcting him and he'd promise not to do it again, only to be back at in an hour or two.
Finally, I told him if I caught him doing it again I would fire him on the spot. That was on a Wednesday. Thursday, I took the afternoon off to attend to personal business. Friday, there was my guy with a huge bandage on his left thumb. The rest of the crew pleaded for me not to fire him. I told him, and them, to relax. I wasn't going to fire him. I would have fired him to keep him from getting injured. There was no point in doing it after he'd cut part of his thumb off. (He lost his thumb from just below his fingernail on up.)
What happened? As he pushed the off cut past the blade, that portion of the work was no longer supported. The end of the off cut twisted toward the blade. The rear of the blade caught it and threw it violently up. It also pulled the front end of the off cut -- the end my guy's left hand had a hold of -- into the blade. His hand went with it.
HTH
If you really cannot support the work piece, you really cannot make the cut on the table saw. It's that simple. Table saws are for cutting straight lines guided by a fence or miter slot, for free hand cuts we have bandsaws and jigsaws