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Top 10 Woodworking Table Saw Jigs and Accessories & How To Make Them - According to Me - YouTube
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the single tool that I use most in my
work is the table saw
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well maybe the pencil but I don't really
know too many pencil jigs so let's talk
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about table saws all right so I'm still
gonna be using my main saw the saw stop
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pcs the bulk of the time but you're
probably gonna see more and more of this
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saw in the coming months and years
my jobsite saw and while these saws are
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great right out of the box
to get them most of them and really any
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table saw you're gonna want to build or
buy some jigs and accessories probably a
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combination of the two so while I was
making the ones that I use the most for
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this saw I thought I'd go over my
favorites and how to make them so let's
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get into it first up is the crosscut
sled now I'm not gonna be giving
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dimensions here because it's all
relative to your particular table saw
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but all the basics should apply to
pretty much any saw and also I should
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say that this is kind of a watered down
version of the sled that David Pacino
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built on his channel and he goes over in
a lot more detail so I'll throw a link
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to his video in the description also so
you're gonna start by cutting out a
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large rectangle that's gonna be the base
for everything
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I'd like to make mine as big as I can
get away with reasonably and that way I
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have the most room to work on it when
I'm using it in the future next I'm
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gonna use some hardwood so here I'm
using maple to make some runners that'll
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fit in the miter slots I'll be making a
pair one for each slot and I think the
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best way to do this is err on the side
of too big and then just keep removing
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material until it's just big enough to
not have any play but so that they can
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still slide freely within the miter slot
also you're gonna want to make sure that
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they're just a little bit thinner than
your miter slots are deep that way they
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don't touch the bottom next I'm going to
take some pennies and put them in the
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slots to hold the runners proud of the
surface of the table saw
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and then I can place my base on top of
that and with a little glue and some
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weight hold everything together while it
dries a little bit and just to make sure
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that I'm pretty close to square at this
point you can see that I'm referencing
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my fence on one edge so after the glue
is pretty dry I came back and installed
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some screws through the runners and into
the base and actually it's probably
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better to do this the other way where
you're going from the top side so from
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the base into the runners but this
seemed to work for me so I don't know
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maybe it doesn't make a difference after
all all right going back in time a
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couple minutes while this was setting up
I also ripped out a couple of strips of
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plywood and that's gonna become the back
fence of my sled basically the part that
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the workpiece rests on and that you'll
be holding to maneuver the sled so I
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laminated two pieces together and after
they were dry I use the table saw to
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trim them flush and then put a 45 degree
bevel on what will become the front
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bottom face and this is so that debris
doesn't get in the way while you're
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trying to use it as a reference which
could throw off crucial measurements the
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next step is to attach the fence to the
sled so here I'm just using one screw at
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one corner and then what I'm gonna do is
raise my blade through the table to make
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a line and you can see here I'm making
sure to remove my splitter before I do
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this and actually I guess now's a good
time to mention that that's my number
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two accessory so most table saws should
come with a splitter I think it might
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even be a requirement but even if it is
it wasn't always so you could have an
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older table saw that might not have one
and honestly I think it's the single
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most important safety feature of a saw
so if yours doesn't have one there are
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ways that you can retrofit one in I know
that micro jigs make some that you can
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fit into the throat plate so yeah I mean
I'm not gonna go over it in too much
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detail I'll just say that that's
something that you should definitely be
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aware of and make sure that you have and
use one okay back to the slide so now
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here I'm raising my blade and making a
cut through just the table and I don't
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want to go into my fence yet at this
point so now I can use that line that I
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just cut and asked where to get my fence
really really close to perpendicular
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with the blade in the miter slot so once
I feel like I'm
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I'm gonna clamp it down to hold it and
then insert one screw on the opposite
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end and then I can test it out to see
how close to perpendicular it is and
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while I'm doing that it gives me a
chance to mention something else that I
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think is really important when you're
working with a table saw or well really
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any power tool for that matter and
that's being alert and I think one of
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alert is with coffee and one of the best
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ways to get coffee is with trade coffee
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drinkers into coffee lovers and I'll be
the first to admit that I am NOT an
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expert when it comes to coffee I really
only started drinking it with regularity
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this year but that's actually one of the
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you can take a quick 6 question quiz
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about the flavors you prefer how you
plan on making it and so forth and at
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the end they'll match you up with a
coffee that fits your preferences so if
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you're like me and you're really trying
to figure out your taste still this is
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perfect and honestly even if you already
are a coffee lover it's still a really
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good way to expand your horizons
so my perfect match was called ad astra
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and rich just like I like my women all
right so all joking aside I think they
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nailed it I've been drinking it for a
couple weeks now and I don't know what
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else to say other than I actually really
really like it but that's it I do want
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to try some others once I finish this
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all right thanks trade coffee
okay so back to testing out my sled so
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somebody can probably explain this
better but here what I'm doing is making
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a cut and then rotating my piece so that
the most recently cut edge becomes the
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reference face on the next cut and by
doing that five times I'm basically
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compounding any discrepancy so that it's
magnified now I don't know if I got
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lucky but when I measured my piece it
was pretty much dead on so once you have
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it to the point where you're happy I
could insert a few more screws and block
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things up and again David's video is
gonna get a lot more into the
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nitty-gritty of this kind of sled and
how to adjust things if you're off so if
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you are gonna build one of these I
highly recommend checking out that video
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again I'll link it below and one last
thing to mention attaching another piece
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to the opposite end of the sled is
optional I guess it makes it more rigid
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I would say but it could get in the way
of potential cuts so just decide what's
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best for you so the awesome thing about
this sort of a crosscut sled is that you
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know that it's out of perfect 90 no need
to fuss around with it whenever you get
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it out and so if you want to quickly cut
one piece or several out in the exact
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same length a crosscut sled is just
about the best option but there are a
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couple of other tools out there that are
also on my list that are pretty similar
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one that you've seen me use a lot on my
channel is the Rockler crosscut sled
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incra makes a similar one as well but
I've never used it so I'll talk
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specifically about this one so the
upside to this compared to a jig that
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you build yourself is one you don't have
to build anything and two you can use it
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to cut a variety of different angles the
downside conversely is it'll cost you a
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little bit more and while it can be as
accurate at getting an exact 90 you'll
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have to verify each time that you make
an adjustment so there are positive
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stops that should pretty much lock it in
but you'll still probably want to double
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check just to make sure
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and the other tool that's pretty similar
that's on my list is a miter gauge so
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I've tried two different mitre gauges in
my time not including the ones that come
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with your saw and that's one from incra
and another one from Craig and both I
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would say are honestly equally good
they're each a little different but the
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basic advantage is compared with the
other two you can cut a lot more angles
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with increased accuracy and I'd say the
downside is they're a little bit slower
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so basically at the end of the day if
you look at the three they would kind of
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plot out like this in terms of speed
versus what I'll call angle versatility
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and really I personally think that while
all three can be used for similar things
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I like having all three at my disposal
and I use each tool pretty frequently
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like I'd say that in almost every
project I build all employ all three
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types of jigs so it's really not a one
or the other kind of situation okay next
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on my list is a tapering jig and again
you can build or buy these personally
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I've always had good luck with this one
from Rockler so I'm gonna highly
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recommend it but if you want to check
out a video on building one Dustin
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Penner has a really good video that
explains it in less words than me Singh
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linked below but anyway these are really
handy for cutting you guessed it tapers
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so if you're familiar with my other
videos you know that I'm big on tapered
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splayed legs and this jig is such a huge
time-saver it really makes me kick
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myself for waiting like five years to
get one so many wasted hours but anyway
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here's a project that I'm actually
working on at the moment and this will
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let you know why you might or might not
need one
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so in this shot I'm marking out my
tapers I want this particular leg to go
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from 3/4 of an inch at the bottom to two
inches at the top next I fit my piece on
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my jig and adjust it so that the lines
that I marked are just barely hanging
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off the edge which you would have
trimmed to your saw right when you get
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it so basically you know that's where
the cuts gonna happen and then you just
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cut
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and since everything's locked in you can
cut out three or four more of these legs
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really easily as long as they're already
cut to the same length and that's pretty
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much it
it's a one-trick pony I guess but it's a
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pony that's the star of my show so yeah
makes sense to me
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okay the next jig on my list is one that
I don't really know a name for it's kind
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of like a tenoning jig but I don't use
it for making Tenon's so I like to call
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it a vertical panel carrying jig so
first let me show you why it's important
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for me and what it does and then I'll
show you how to build one so you guys
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know I like angular stuff one of the
most angular pieces is this guy bad
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Larry I'll link them below if you
haven't already seen the build video
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anyway so I use this jig in order to
make the trapezoidal cabinet and here's
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why I need it as you can see all of
these corners are mitered or beveled to
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achieve this joint I set my blade at 37
and 1/2 degrees and cut the two edges
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and this results in an overall angle
that's obtuse at 105 degrees or 15
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degrees more than 90 so that's all
pretty easy and straightforward but to
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cut this corner I would have to tilt my
blade at 52 and a half degrees the
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problem is you can't tilt a blade to 52
and a half degrees so the trick is
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leaving your blade tilted to 37 and 1/2
degrees like it was for those first two
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cuts and instead make your workpiece run
across the blade vertically instead of
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horizontally or flat on the table and
that's why you need this Jake
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so yeah let's build it
we're gonna start by ripping some pieces
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of 3/4 inch plywood so that they're the
exact same height as your fence again
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I'd recommend airing on the side of
taller and then working your way down
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until it's just right and once you have
it locked in you're gonna need a total
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of two pieces that are this size and you
might notice here that I'm making more
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than two and that's because I'm making
multiple jigs but we'll get back to that
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in a minute here I'm just cross cutting
my pieces to length and you can do this
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before after but generally speaking I
like to go anywhere from 3/4 of the
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length to the full length of my fence
and this is pretty variable in reality
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but it just kind of depends on what
you're gonna be using the jig for here
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I'm sandwiching my fence between the two
pieces that I cut in step one and then
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measuring how wide of a piece I need to
cut for the top and then I could cut
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that piece out and glue and screw it on
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the next thing to do was attach the flat
face of the jig to the carriage so this
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is the part that your workpiece is gonna
end up attaching to and again here just
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a few screws should do the trick
now like I said I made three of these
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jigs while I was out there and that's
because I use these things a lot and so
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I want to have one dedicated to making
splines in mitered like joints that are
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90 degrees and then another one four
legs that are 15 degrees off of 90 so
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here I'm setting up for that in this
shot and actually here's some footage
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from some other builds that kind of
shows what you'd use something like this
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for
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all right so here I'm cutting out some
plywood strips and then making a
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45-degree cross cut with my miter gauge
and then I can attach those to the
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vertical piece
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so now you kind of know how they all
work but I'm just gonna show a really
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extreme example of the vertical panel
carrying jig here and you can see that
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this would be a really difficult or
dangerous cut to try to make without the
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jig alright so moving on one of the
questions that I get asked most often is
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how I get clean cuts on the table saw
and there's a lot of factors that are
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gonna go into it but two of the most
important in my book and the two that I
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usually ask people first about are one
what kind of blade they're using and two
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are they using a zero clearance insert
plate so four blades there's lots of
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good ones out there and my personal
favorites are forest woodwork or two
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blades which are kind of on the pricey
side but I see it as an investment
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honestly I have a total of three of them
now that I still currently use and I've
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owned some of them for over seven years
and one of the reasons for that is
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because you can send them back to forest
to have them re-- sharpened and fixed up
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for about 30 bucks but I guess the
bottom line is there's plenty of options
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out there and you should just research
and explore those options rather than
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settling on whatever your saw happen to
come with okay so about the zero
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clearance insert plate if you don't know
what that is I'm gonna install a new one
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in my saw right here and it'll be pretty
self-explanatory so as you can see right
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now it's just a solid plate with no slot
for the blade once you have it inserted
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and balanced and you make sure that your
riving knife or splitters removed you
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clamp it down turn on your saw and
slowly raise the blade through it so
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this is gonna cut a slot that's the
exact same size as the blade which means
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that the underside of your piece that
you're cutting is gonna get a lot more
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support and should have less tear out
and I think for most table saws you
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should be able to buy an insert plate
that's already made to fit it exactly
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but if you needed to you could also make
one if it's an option though I'd
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honestly recommend buying because it's
probably gonna get a better fit
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but so these next two recommendations
have more to do with confidence and
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comfort while working but I think that
those are things that go into making you
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get a good result so they're worth
mentioning so number nine is a feather
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board and what feather boards allow you
to do is keep good consistent pressure
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of your workpiece up against your fence
and they can also get places where it
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would be kind of dangerous to put your
hands also they can kind of act as a
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third hand in situations where you might
be cutting a piece that's too big to
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reach and one of the other things that I
use them for a lot is when I run a piece
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on edge over the table saw for example
when I'm cutting rabbits basically it
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helps the piece from tilting and last
but not least and this might seem really
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obvious is a good push stick now these
come in all different shapes and sizes
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everything from as simple as what
probably came with your saw to something
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like a gripper from micro jigs but
honestly my favorite is something like
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this a push shoe I saw this design
somewhere like seven years ago and so I
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drew up a file in Illustrator and had
six of them cut out on a CNC from a
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local sign shop and these are my
favorite they let me keep good pressure
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on my workpiece they keep my hands up
and away from the blade and since
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they're made out of wood and relatively
cheap
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I don't mind cutting right into them if
I need to to help me get more pressure
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on certain cuts so that's it those are
my 10 favorite jigs and accessories for
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the table saw in no particular order so
hopefully you found it useful and if
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this was your first time in my channel
if you got a couple minutes go check out
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some of my build videos and I thank you
in advance all right see in the next one
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