3 Simple Jigs to get Professional Results from any Table Saw | Shop Tips
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Everyone thinks you need a multi-thousand dollar table saw to do professional-level woodworking but you can get clean and accurate results with just a couple of simple jigs. Here are the 3 jigs I think every woodworker should start out with on a table saw to get better results.
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I never anticipated making so many tools for my tools!
I don't understand most of this, but still couldn't stop watching.
Glad to hear
This style of presenting should be an example for others who want to make woodworking videos. No bs ,not too "american" 👏
Some make it easy and some make it hard. Anybody can learn from this guy. Very quick and easy to understand.
Thanks so much, in these technique videos I try to be succinct and not waste any time
As a qualified welder, i really enjoy watching other trades backyard hacking their tools and showing their inside techniques. It can give us all a lot of ideas on how to be both frugal and professional . Cheers Mate, and good work!
Frugal and professional, I dig it.
Although I have made these jigs before, it's always good to watch other techniques. An example is that I always made my runners the same depth as the slots. Your idea works much better!
Very bright. No endless talking. You get to the point. Thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Those bolts are nuts!
This was a good one, Rick. Gives me incentive to finally make a cross cut sled. Thanks for sharing.
Get you some Bernie. How have you lived this long without a crosscut sled?
extremely useful shop projects, particularly the third jig with just one runner. Thanks
Yea I came to comment on that final jig - how have I never thought of that before?!?!
Goes to show that the best option to accomplish a simple task is usually very simple and easy, you just need to know the answer :D
I need some more info on how that third one works. I don't get what it would be good for exactly.
@@Morgoroth37 if you have a piece of wood that doesn’t have a straight edge to make an accurate cut against the fence from, you need to make a straight edge. (The fence is only good if there’s an accurate straight edge to slide along it) That third jig allows him to take crooked boards and make them at least one side straight, so he can then use the fence on the side he just jointed.
@@Fereshetian22190 thanks! I didn't realize how important that was! I've been using plywood so far.
Very well done.
Thank you. I will be using sleds now!
Very helpful and clear. I like the simplicity of your sled as well as the 2 glue trick
That was awesome. I'm a fairly experienced woodworker, but I've always worked for people who had every tool and jig imaginable so I've never needed much to get my work done. Lately, I've moved to a new city, and my collection of quite basic tools makes it a bit of a challenge to complete many of the jig building videos online because almost all of them require a half a dozen tools I don't have. haha. Thanks for making this so someone starting out in their tool collection can play along as well.
the last jig was SO GOOD. yet so simple i love it THANK YOU
So many uses
Bro the way you showcased that champfer while the blade was running had me SPOOKED
Thanks for the third idea! I will keep in my mind!
The last jig was the most useful always wondered how to cut a curved board straight and that looks like just the ticket Tha KS for sharing
For sure, and you can use a straight line rip jib for so much more too...bevels, veneers, stock prep, tapers, thin strips...all the things.
You can always go the method of screwing something you know to be dead straight to the curved board and then run that straight piece along the fence also. Handy in cases where you are possibly doing something over 2ft long or so
Loved the video, I will be adding a table saw at home so this was very useful information 👍👍
Respect for the Eric B and Rakim intro -- I was not expecting that from a woodworking video which is usually hillbilly rock.
Super useful for me as I don't have any of these jigs/sleds. You're the first content provider I've seen that demonstrates the how-to for these accessories. Thank you.
Spot on for all three jigs. I knew i would learn something here. Combining wood glue with super and spray brilliant and thanks for a well presented youtube. I like and sub cheers
First time I’ve come across your site, love it.
Keep up the good work ✊🏻
Thank you sharing. Excellent video and process.
learning that there is such a thing as a joiner sled opened a whole new world for me! making this tomorrow.
Do note that you *can* extend the slot in your zero clearance insert to accommodate a riving knife. It's totally worth the effort. That means I can use the zero clearance with the riving knife, blade guard, and kickback pawls. I _never_ have to choose between safety and better quality cuts.
Indeed you should, that was an oversight on this video I regret.
@@WoodWorkLIFE - It would be short, but it could be subject matter for a future video. Maybe find a few other small mods that enhance safety and package them up?
@@WoodWorkLIFE excuse me I'm new to this.. but what is a river knife and what does it do?
@@WoodWorkLIFE excuse me I'm new to this.. but what is a river knife and what does it do?
@@alienscientist8893 a riving knife helps to keep the tension in wood from pinching the blade causing kickback. This is a critical safety measure and I should have demonstrated how to incorporate it into my final design.
Good video, man. I never got lost, bored, or checked to see how much time was left. Super useful!
Awesome, I am going to try to do more simple tip videos like this straight and to the point. Anything you would be interested in seeing in this format?
I can’t think of anything in particular at the moment, but I’d for sure watch it! Haha
Wood.Work.LIFE. How about some joint jigs? Maybe a box joint jig?
Great sleds. The simplicity of the jointer sled completely transforms the versatility of the jobsite tablesaw for me! New sub. Keep on creating.
Excellent video. I also use a job site table saw for my small wood shop so this was great. Thank you.
Loved the last sled...a jointer is insanely out of my price range and space ...thanks for the great easy idea
Most tools are "insanely" out of my price range also, however, I have found a lot of great deals at yard/estate sales, pawn shops and other market place searches. Recently I acquired a $150 Bostitch 18 gauge nailer for $25 at a pawn shop. And, at another pawn shop, I got a trim router for $35. I forget how much that one was originally. Most shops don't really know what they are selling and are more interested in moving the items out of the shop.
First of all, this was one of the most straight forward, down to earth videos I've witnessed about jobsite saws manipulated into precision tools and no fuss aids to support it. I am duly motivated once again to find a saw that I just might be able to afford. Thanks and Cheers!
Thanks Dave, glad I could help
Those saws can set you back really bad.
Thank you for simple and smart people to learn to learn from your good results as demonstrated !
I wish I was more diligent with my safety protocols but otherwise, glad I could pack so much info so fast.
This video was great. I have all my tools in a closet and no dedicated workspace so I have this saw bc it is easy to store and maneuver. These jigs will help me.
Awesome!
Tight work! Props for the Eric B and Rakin intro bro!
Nicely done! Great jigs for any table saw.
Nice work.
I need to make all of these. Especially the last one.
I seem to be watching a lot of these table saw jigs. I should now get a table saw.
Boom! lights going on everywhere - thanks dude!
Such a good video. I'm trying my hand with some woodwork and this is perfect for me
Good luck, be safe
Im a mason that tries to do woodwork. I just subbed. Im counting on your videos. Thnx man
I've been watching woodworking videos for years now. The majority seem to bombard me with needless info backed up by horrendously loud electronic "music"(?). This was great and informative so I subscribed. So now I'll watch and see what else you have for me. Thanks.
Welcome to the WWL family. Be forewarned some of my earlier videos I was going through a weird Casey Neistat thing (pardon my music). I do love music, but I have been trying to get better with my mixes. There is a time and a place...Let me know what you think. This is part of a series of videos I call "don't sweat the technique" it's all about you have a question, here's the answer...no BS 😁
Great jigs and great job on the video production. You are making me nervous how cavalier you are pushing material through, though. I'm glad that you still have your fingers.
I've been woodworking for 40+ years and the most I have done is back in the 70's as a newbie. Grabbed at a piece of thin paneling that was about to break off and missed the paneling and grabbed the saw blade instead. My dad took me to the ER to have my fingers sewed up. Still have all ten! Thank you Jesus!
My boss was cutting some maple batten snatched in the blade because of a knot and took 3 of his fingers off. He used a pusher ever since
Agreed, people should always demonstrate ' best practice' when uploading videos. People will simply emulate what they see without thinking of the dangers as they are unaware, you owe it to your followers to 'do it right' each and every time.
"Scrap hardwood" - HAH! As if. (Great guide, thanks!)
Glad you liked it!
@Callum Atlas You meant ex-girlfriend. Consider using another forum to advocate for criminal activities
Three essential jigs. Thanks for taking the time to make and share with us.
Glad you liked it, happy to share.
Great examples of necessary table saw sleds. I didn't see an comment on how you liked the DeWalt saw you used. I am limited in space in my shop and this is the most accurate, repeating table saw I've ever used. I recommend it to anyone.
Finally! Someone hitting up the worksite affordable side of woodworking!
Thank you!
Not really. I have a HF saw I got for around $50 new, years ago. Crap, right? I make saw sleds for my sawing and I get dead on cuts with them. Also I put a bridge over the blade so the only way my fingers could get bit by the blade is if I laid my hand flat, and slid it under the bridge. Also put stops on front and back, so the blade never shows, and impossible to get cut. I value my fingers, this guy apparently has fingers to spare.
There are hybrid saws ( somewhere between job site and professional caninet saws) that are very affordable and much better than job site saws with exception of portsbility. There are Ridgid, Delta, Grizzly come to mind of affordable hybrid saws
Super, super good video!
thanks, glad you liked it.
Great tips. Thanks. 👍😁
I have that exact table saw. Excited to build these jigs.
Great advice! Those are game changers at the table saw.
Hell ya! 3 jigs to get your saw going.
You had me at Eric B and Rakim. Good to know that I’m not the only person who listens to 90’s Hip Hop while woodworking.
I'm new to woodworking and just got a jobsite tablesaw. This is very useful, thanks
Wow thanks a bunch, just did my first two projects and now I’m excited to do more with these jigs
Very cool, be safe and keep up the great work. Let me know if you have any questions.
I have this saw and love it! Thanks for the flush trim router idea.
Great job thanks for posting. Really should use push plates with handles on them to push your material through. You are way to comfortable getting your hand too close to the blade as you push through. The push handles give you very positive downward and fence pressure along with forward pressure. Just some advice. Love the jigs! Thanks
You're right although it's not as unsafe as it looks. There is a concept called lense compression that causes object to appear closer together when you are zoomed in a lense. My fingers are never really THAT close to the blade.
Wood.Work.LIFE. - it only you that you have to convince. Thanks
Really great thanks!
Thanks for sharing
Good tips. Might also let people know they need to use the blade guard it's there for a reason you don't even instal it. Safety first for most and always
The spacers you added to the miter slots are called *nuts*. Bolts are the the longer things that nuts screw onto. Important to get that right when building stuff I think.
You think? I think your just a dick
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Excellent video! Thanks
Nice and simple. Very clear. Great halo thanks
Good reminder that sleds don't have to be a big fuss.
The work speaks for itself, you don't always have to go WAY over the top.
When making a wooden throat plate, always have the top grain running parallel with the blade. It's a small detail, but it does make for smoother cuts. Another trick is to saturate the cut edges of the ply to stabilize the laminates; makes it much more durable.
It is plywood so the grain direction goes both ways.
@thedevilinthecircuit1414 your channels suks so shadda fukup.
Great easy tips.
First time I have watched your video I am a wood worker but I learned something about shop made jigs thanks I will look for more of you video
Thanks for sharing! I’m wondering how to put a measurement guide on the fence of the cross cut sled
Try routing out a grove and using a yard stick as an "inlay." I did the same thing on a fence extension I did for my miter saw and I'll be doing it with an assembly table I'm building soon. I would recommend cutting off a quarter inch so the edge isn't riding next to the blade on every cut. Also, use the aluminum yard sticks. They won't wear as fast as the wooden ones and the material is soft enough to cut with an old miter saw blade.
@@bh7926 cheers!
You could just measure your piece normally and make a line and then line up your line for your cross cut with the kerf cut on the sled
Cool jigs. I was surprised by your unsafe work and push stick handling at 1:08.
fair point
@@WoodWorkLIFE Cheers.
This table saw is perfect for home projects
Great job
Quick tip: make the jointer sled as long as the width of a sheet of plywood (4 feet) so that when ripping down a whole sheet of plywood with a circular saw into more manageable pieces, you use the jointer sled as the fence for the circular saw cuts :)
Pretty cool Jigs! I have the same table saw set up. It is awesome saw and a great value. I was curious why on so many of your cuts that your blade appears so much higher than the wood?
I usually raise the blade until the gullets are even with the surface but with plywood higher blade setting reduces tearout. Not great for safety, but I steer clear of the blade.
It is a never settled argument over what blade height above the wood is best or safest. The only real benefit to having the blade super low is less blade exposed to the user. However if we're using using proper techniques and push sticks and the like then having the blade higher isn't really any safer than having the blade lower. Also using a blade guard makes the argument against having the blade too high to reduce the chance of blade contact a completely moot point anyway.
The argument for having the blade higher is that you have less teeth in contact with the work at any given time reducing the friction the blade has against the wood which reduces the overall forces trying to push the wood off of the saw top.
Just got about 1/8" higher than the wood (accounting for bowed plywood 😉)
Old school of thought was use blade slightly higher than material be cut. Fast forward 20 plus years and that is no longer the recommended practice . Raising the blade higher helps hold down the material.
Great video and jigs. Thanks
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Just what i needed thank you
Hey, can't find the 5 cut link?
Great quick and simple tutorial for the jigs
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Wow when you were cutting that plywood, you had your hand and fingers pretty close to the blade. Just noticed. I did that sometimes, but now not ever. Just use a gripper tool or something.
True, safety first my friend!!!
I was told to never put your hand where you wouldn't put your family jewels. When I was teaching my wife to use power tools I said don't put your hand anywhere you wouldn't put your baby. She got the point.
@@nickroyle4805 u still shake hands with other men? Just asking..
@@osskala5475 haha, good one! Maybe I should modify that rule. Never put your hand closer to a blade than you would your old fella. But then you have to specify dangers other than blades. You've ruined my saying!
Outstanding.....Thanks
Great tips thanks
Great video, just cant get past all the glue ups and drilling on the saw table.
Trying to act as if that's all you've got for surfaces. I don't like to intimidate people in projects like this by using a bunch of different tools and work surfaces. NO EXCUSES
Do all of that on a wood bench
Add paste wax to the rails and to the bottom of the jigs for smoother use.
Absolutely
Thanks for a quick and simple explanation
I haven't gotten around to making any jigs but that last one is super helpful and I've never seen anyone do that. Definitely first on my list to build.
The simpler the better! The accuracy and utility is far more important than over the top design.
1:30 nuts. ;)
Bolts... that's nuts...
Deez
I've made a zero clearance for my saw too, but I cut all the way to the edge for my riving knife. Do you not use one?
You don't have to go all the way to the back edge. You can leave some material to keep the insert rigid and still leave room for the riving knife. Very important.
Excellent point. No point in compromising safety .. its hard to do woodwork when you are missing a bunch of fingers.
@@chriselliott726 That is not what a riving knife does. It helps with preventing kickback and binding but the whole point of a zero clearance insert is for thin materials and small cuts where that type of kickback and binding doesn't occur.
@@1995rwt I am afraid you are badly informed my friend. Perhaps take a look on UA-cam for videos about severed hands and fingers as a result of kickback accidents - if you have the stomach for it. Kick back can throw work back at you causing severe injury or death, but equally drag your hand into the blade.
I would also say that those wedded to zero clearance throat plates and no riving knife do not routinely change their setup for different thickness materials.
I sometimes remove the top guard on my machine for groove cuts, but never the riving knife. That is reckless, but of course you are entitled to put your own safety on the line if you choose to do so.
Chris Elliott anyone using something incorrectly is libel to injure themselves. What is the point of a zero clearance insert other than to better handle stock that would normally get caught between the throat plate and the blade, or maybe even between the throat plate and the riving knife. I’ve seen kickback before, experienced it once thankfully to no personal injury. I’ve also cleaned bits of fingertips out of jointers before, I get how dangerous tools can be but a zero clearance insert with a riving knife won’t work for the thing that zero clearance inserts are useful for which is ripping thin veneers out of larger boards.
Great jigs to have!
I've been watching of bunch of jig videos lately; trying to make future projects quicker, easier and more accurate. This is definitely one of the better tutorials I've seen. Thanks for the tips, I'm going to get working.
Glad I could help, short and sweet.
Watching you make that crosscut sled makes me wonder how on earth you build cabinets.
With wood glue , super glue , and accelerator. Oh it might take you a while to get the cabinets too.
Great video.. those cuts sure seemed unnecessarily dangerous... but great video.
Particularly at 0:39. Don't do that. Never a good idea to trap a cut-off between the blade and fence.
Great tips, thanks for the video
I actually completed my sled today. I did find some scrap oak, and I re-purposed old cabinet doors for the plywood. I am cutting true squares in the first test. Thank you.
Try using a medium or thick superglue; thin glue wicks into wood and irks best on reinforcing things that are already together while medium and thick both work more like traditional wood glues. I use Maxi-Cure CA glue which is thick and with or whiteout activator works great. I use it quite a bit in woodworking and buy 8 oz. at a time which runs $12 or so on Amazon
Chris Lackey could you provide a link?
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Not to beat a dead horse but "Whip Whip!". I am still healing from losing the top 1/4 of my left index finger from a table saw injury. I appreciate the video but man, careful. I am 47 and never thought I would be one with a stubby finger from a table saw. "Wont happen to me". well...
Thanks for the word of warning.
I worked with 2 guys named Ernie and they both cut their left thumbs off. Be careful if your name is Ernie.
The last jig is AWESOME!!! Thanks!
So simple but the one most people comment on.
Your jointer jig is the best one yet. So simple.
I think so too!
I just started using a table saw on my own and I watch this to learn something. However, unfortunately, after seeing what he built here I have no idea what those things are used for.
You will very soon learn. This are jigs for cutting square and straight edges.
Chris if you take anything from this video, let it be how NOT to safely use a table saw. This guy is going to lose a finger or part of his hand someday. Also, his wood gluing method is bad.
Hate to pick on nits, but those little round thingies you called "bolts" at 1:31 - most of the world calls those nuts. But hey, maybe it's just me - I'm the nutty one...
what am I a machinist :D
@@WoodWorkLIFE Wait - you mean you DON'T know everything??? Well, rats! Another dream smashed to bits...
OK, so you're not perfect - that line forms right behind me. Man, if I had a dollar every time I misspoke, I'd be Bill Gates's older brother (I don't even know if he has a brother, but I'd walk in those shoes, you know, as my donation to humanity!).
More Pepsi please!!!
@@thomream1888 consider that not picked :). Good chatting, hope my fallibility didn't scare you away from watching my other videos 😂
@@WoodWorkLIFE Oh, heck no! I not only hit the like button, I've been a subscriber for a while now. Sadly, my woodworking days are behind me (a dose of cancer really screws up life-plans!) but my gear lives on with my brother. I enjoy watching what you do, and appreciate little tips I can pass on. THAT is why I watch your show. I mean, if we were all perfect, well, what fun would that be?! Like I said, I'm in the front of the "screw-up" line!!! (no offense to screws or nails intended...)
Beautiful
Awesome video man, thx for this. Looking forward to what else you put out!
So much more coming
No riving knife fitted is asking for a kickback! Plus fingers rather too close to the blade for comfort...always use a push stick if you want to keep those digits!
Riving knife has to be removed in order to raise the blade up thru the boards. There was one cut with the 45 degree bevel that his fingers were somewhat close to the blade but he would have lost some control with a push stick if he had used a push stick. All other cuts were with the sled. As general advise, yes riving knife and push sticks are the safest but there are times when there use doesn’t make sense and even times when they raise the risk of an accident occurring.
I agree. I used to have problems with kickback when I bought my Dewalt table saw years ago and removed it and have never had a single time since where I’ve had a problem with kickback. If you know how to feed the stock thru the saw, the riving knive preventing kickback is just a myth if you ask me
I'm not sure if many folks need to taper 2×4 lumber along it's 3-1/2" face, but I needed to and couldn't have done so without a jig I made (didn't see such so maybe I invented it?). So for me my solution became an essential table saw jig.
Problem was that a 10" table saw barely cuts a standing 2×4. So, putting it atop the usual taper jig leaves the saw blade too short for the job.
My solution was to make a split fence jig from plywood. The back fence laminates two 1/2" pieces 3"×40" and single piece front fence is the same size. The two are joined at the back end by a hinge. Near the front end, a hole is drilled through to accept a 5/8-16 tee-nut and the back side was counter-bored to accept a 5/8" socket wrench. Various length 5/8-16 screws give a range of taper angles. (Since the back fence will ride the table saw's fence, the bolts cannot protrude.) The screws maintain the desired angle against the front fence by the spacer they create between them. The last two pieces are (1) a small heel on the front end of the front fence and (2) a sliding lock on that end to lock the two together to fix the taper.
The workpiece rests on the saw table with the hinged end of the fence first. The back fence rides along the saw's fence. The small heel pushes the workpiece through the cut. The taper line penciled on the workpiece is parallel to the back fence. The only caveat is to use infeed support for long tapers. Also a handle can be attached to the top of the back fence if desired
TDinDC
I could barely hear what he is trying to explain. Too distracted by how unsafe he is being.
I second this, no one is impressed by your ability to place the ONLY fingers you'll EVER have close to the table saw blade, riving knife or not, it's not a smart move bro.
It doesnt seem safe to saw towards your hand with a jig saw.
Just got my new Dewalt table saw for Christmas. This intro was very useful and informative. Thank you
Me too! I got the 7492. Love it!
Like the last jig the best