10 Most Insane Table Saw Jigs on YouTube

everybody welcome back so i've been making videos for nearly a decade over 700 videos and i think i still have like almost 600 of them posted here on youtube and we've done a lot of firsts on youtube and a lot of crazy table saw jig sleds all kinds of fascinating things so i thought it might be fun to do is go through that decade of material get some of the craziest and most innovative sleds and jigs and fixtures i've done for the table saw and throw them into one compilation video and then do a little bit of a reaction video to it so today's going to be a little different than normal so for you newer folks who haven't seen some of that older content this is going to be a fun one and maybe the first time you've seen them but i'm very proud of the fact that most of what you see in this video are going to be firsts on youtube in other words it was the first time it was seen on youtube the first time it was done on youtube and we had a lot of fun with these projects over the years i hope you enjoyed this format definitely let me know down in the comment section below if it's something that you enjoy and want to see more of i've been talking to my friend andy klein about doing some of this kind of content and perhaps even bringing him in and doing some back and forthing with both his projects and my projects we'd love to have your feedback and what you think about this format i hope you enjoy and we'll see you after the video hey everyone welcome to think woodworks my name is izzy swan hey everybody welcome back thank you it works my name is everybody welcome back to the shop i'm izzy hey everyone welcome back to the show today we're building two table sauce heads everybody i'm izzy and welcome back to my little diy dog and pony show let's do something fun everybody welcome back to the shop i'm izzy many many years oh yeah this is the first time youtube ever saw turning um dowels on a table saw this was 2013 august 2013 i believe this is the first time i ever showed this on on youtube and i think i was the first one to do it on youtube i remember the comments on this it's a good thing i have thick skin because if um if the comments would affected me i probably would have curled up in a little ball and just faded away forever everybody was that's so dangerous uh not so dangerous and people just didn't really understand the physics of what was happening it's a lot more common on youtube now you see a lot more of this kind of stuff out there and it's works really really well this was really a fun video to do this was back when we were still recording on the galaxy note 9 and most of it was like press record pause press record pause and then just upload to youtube it was silly yep yeah i think this was the first video that um we showed uh table saw turning turning on you know you could do just a straight dowel or you could do little decorative elements on it and then of course over the years you got wilder this one right here was definitely recorded on the galaxy note 9. i was making oak handles for the the original palette pal some of you remember some of you won't where we step on the thing and i literally pull out my cell phone and pressed play or record and record a little bit and then press pause and then moved it and i wanted to do this in real time so in this one i actually show this is very old oh this is like a 100 year old oak very very dry very very hard and i believe that's yeah that's that old rigid table saw so one and a quarter one and three quart horse motor not real powerful but i wanted to show how fast it really was so this whole segment here is real time of cutting a oak handle for a pellet pal it's amazing how effective this is look at those chips coming out there you can really tell how hard that oak is wow old old video this would have been this would have been towards the end of august in 2013 yep pull it off there and i believe this is the first time i showed using a dado stack instead of just doing it with a single blade they work both way dado stack you can go a little bit more aggressive because there's a little bit more support now people don't get on this is that that table saw plate is spinning at 3 400 rpms and the drill is only spending about 600 rpms so functionally the table saw blade is not like cutting directly across but it's making these long small swoops you're taking a 30 second of an inch it's not aggressive at all in fact you can feel in the drill there's like no aggression but this was a very effective way we made so many of those handles i think it was i can't remember it was well over 2 300 of them crazy stuff i've made several jigs like this um since then you know some with plexiglas on them i've taken them just to i took them to clean spore and actually live demoed them and had other people feeling the aggression it's always people are all surprised [Laughter] you idiot you dated the ball blaster this was to date the most complex jig i think i've done on on youtube so making bowls on um a table saw and if you notice you look down at the bottom you can see i misspelled details uh a few videos before this i'd figured out that if i put some on-screen words i misspelled something and didn't catch it and posted it in the comment section blew up and back then it was all about engagement so um i figured if i didn't correct my spelling and or you know worry about it and it worked i mean so many people commented you misspelled details and it just blew up the comments section and i'm not too proud to worry about it so i did it and it worked it actually worked really well so this is um the making bowls on the table saw jig and then you can round them over and do decorative elements with this little offset kind of indexing pin i designed into it and then of course you could take it over to the router table and do more decorative elements so cutting long spiral so you can get some really cool this is kind of like a a compass rose lathe um a very you know uncomplicated one comparatively but it got some really cool results this is a lot of fun and the other thing i liked about it it was just crazy fast so we could do all these little decorative things on it and this one right here i think not maybe it's not this one maybe it's the next one there it is i did the cross grain spiral on it and this was just you know some scrap plywood and stuff we in the shop and this is long before cnc's and all that stuff so this was all you know done by hand and mapped out by hand no no 3d designs and then the big question i got was how do you hollow out the bowls well the same way you turn it up the bowl upside down in the jig and you slowly raise the table saw blade up into the bowl and it hulls it out that's actually a lot more aggressive than doing the rounding side and then of course i built in a tool rest in the back because hollowing with the table saw can be a little bit rough depending on the way the jig is set up so this was a built-in tool rest where you could come in and just kind of fun fact that right there is an old screwdriver i just rounded over and sharpened for cleaning out the inside so i think i must have made 60 bulls on that thing all these different little elements so it was fun that was a really fun project i might rebuild that someday that was really cool oh more table saw turning oh yeah this one's cool i think i got a couple of these where yep i tried some different off axis off axis but like follow patterns with um just like literally just dumping some shapes over the top of one of these jigs after you know turning it on the table saw to get some decorative elements in there and this one was yeah it was interesting you know i learned a lot on this it was pretty it was pretty cool i'll be darned yep and it's passable as a table leg i'm not sure i'd use it for one but it's passable and that was an old beat up piece of four by four by something barn would be cut that out of more table saw turning you guys catching a pattern here so literally done this so much over the years just you know using the table saw this was the one i really liked i actually thought about building these into some kind of furniture project never did spirals and stuff on legs that's because it's kind of dated it's not really a thing anymore but it's still a lot of fun the results on this were really pretty it's just this really nice uh symmetrical kind of swooping pattern and i believe i didn't show it in the video but i think i took no this was one pass i thought i was taking two passes and raising the blade a little bit but no that's a different pro it was a different project so i liked the way these turned out so those are kind of pretty and that was one of yep that was with my homemade dye i used to make my own dyes and um stains and stuff back in the day oh that's me about 50 pounds lighter this was a quick fun one we did you know another way to hollow out a bowl and you know with the table saw uh that was just some cherry and walnut maple that we glued up oh yeah um bowling ball on a tableside believe um gosh this was to beginning of 2014 to maybe march 2014 and the aspect ratio was all screwed up on this again from my cell phone but i believe to date i am the only person that's ever turned a bowling ball on a table saw and actually use it that was regulation so and that was just some old beat up stuff and okay this is another whenever i do my table saw slides especially for builds that are going to do quite a few of i always make them multifunctional so you know that was just one thing i used to always preach if you can get more out of a table saw sled do more and here's my angled table saw fence where we do a lot of coving and stuff um that was the first time i showed it on youtube which one is this oh i bet it's more table saw turning to be fair i just literally threw up a bunch of videos and kind of hacked them up and now i'm going to go through and comment on them and watch them what am i doing here oh yeah yeah uh pretty sure this is the churro there's the dpt wrench use that a lot just don't use it much anymore just hangs on the wall no no this isn't the churro is it maybe we'll see in a second guys so this is a real simple jig i literally just built this in a few minutes to house this length of um of material for turning and literally no bearings or anything just some bolts in the end of the material yep this is the churro and then just like you do across you know a cove cut on a table saw except for i had a following pattern on mine so you can see that piece of wood up on top um i used a screwdriver and a hole in the side of a round disk and i just followed that pattern along with it raising the blade up into it and i i believe i don't even think i measured that out i just like mark some different points on that little disc so i'd have different positions i literally like just hand sketch it out i think i did this video and like it was four hours it was four hours to to build a jig film it and edit it and post it and the stupid video got like four million views or something like that i need more videos like this yep this is definitely the churro so i created these kind of um coves that follow the radius of the of the um the piece of wood we're turning and then that little follower there would just create the same pattern every time i pushed it through now there's no real gauge to it or anything it's just you know at the speed you're going keep the follower against the material and that keeps it consistent through the whole turn so interestingly enough this is a lot more aggressive on a table saw blade like doing coves or this is way more aggressive on a table saw blade than actually turning something like turning a spindle or or um or the bowling ball even this that is harder on the arbor and stuff than that the actual turning part is and that was one of the things we always got comments well that's gonna you're gonna ruin your arbor i'm like it's a tool i'm gonna use it for what i want to use it for if it ruins it i'll replace it but the truth is this is way harder on the arbor coving is way harder on the arbor than actually turning something at high speeds is so i guess i left a lot of this video in see that black thumb on my tape or black tape on my thumb rather i think this was when we were moving stuff up to the new shop we were still down in the basement and i managed to smash my thumb with something i don't remember what it was but it was it was a good one i figured it was it was enough that i should cover it up so people have to look at it that right there is a i don't know 150 craftsman saw i picked up used we had just moved i just moved down to greenville south carolina from michigan and i got rid of most of my equipment up in michigan so i didn't have to move it down here and um actually i think i borrowed this from a friend of mine frank yep it was that's what it was i borrowed this from a friend of mine frank he had it in storage wasn't using it so i just used it while i was getting ready to move up to the big shop i didn't want to put any new equipment down until because i don't have to move it again so there's the churro a little bit of sanding oh my goodness i had some really sharp points so i played it down that's uh one that's tony rulo's plane for those of you in the know as a gorgeous plane and there it is there is the churro why would i show so much of that planing in sandy i have never gotten good at editing videos y'all for those of you who watch me and are patient with me thank you there are so many people out there so much better at this video editing stuff than i am and what's you know visually interesting and a little bit of what is that teak oil yeah it might be t-coil and that is cedar yeah i believe we cut that out of some white cedar oh the good old days and there it is the uneven churro i think i mean i may still have that laying around somewhere probably covered in sawdust stashed somewhere if i do i should probably get it out and burn it or write a date on it so i remember when we did this video and this oh this video is shortly after i did the churro um i'm this one's kind of interesting it's not something i'd ever do again it was a little sketch on the table saw probably one of the most sketchy things i've ever done on the table saw so i created a rack and pinion system um for a sled this sled has these gears on it that are going to follow the rack and pinion system on a table saw i always make faces when i'm going to bite my tongue stick out my tongue make some weird face when i'm doing something i need to focus on because i'm a dork and yep this is that's what it is literally just cobbled together again with scrap wood i didn't even go to the hardware store for anything i just grabbed whatever i had laying around and then i numbered the gear the the gear that's going to go through the pinion or the rack so i could position it each time to make a different one to make a different um position and then literally pushing this thing across the top of that rack turning this thing really aggressively so this is probably the most aggressive thing i've ever done on a table saw as far as you know forces involved it's a lot of like side load on that blade because it's really i mean almost directly hitting the side load and i'm impatient so i was raising the blade up too much at a time you can tell by the tear out i shouldn't have that tear out if i was going a little slower that wouldn't be there and i think i caught a couple times because i had the blade up too high and it was catching a little bit and i didn't want to slow down so i decided to just muscle it through so i could get this video done and out of the way funny enough it was it was sketchy but it actually it actually worked pretty good there wasn't a whole lot of things i had to do after just a light sanding and it worked again this is you know it's this video wasn't for like a how-to or just a more see if we can and the results turned out pretty cool but again it kind of dated that spiral look would have been really great back in the 60s or 70s not so much now but it was a really fun project learned a lot from it learned that i'm never going to try to do something that aggressive on the saw again and then table saw sleds so i've done a lot of different table saw sleds uh over the years oh the green garage i missed that color a lot of people hated it i love that color it's to me it's a very i don't know creative color it makes me want to be out there so this is an off axis sled so um think of it as a cove making a cove but in this case it's a sledding a sled cove slender cove sled cove sled so i can just take a piece of material like this looks like red oak and uh cove it from the side and got these little ridge ridges in it nice camera work there boss and uh it was really cool that uh the way this turned out as far as just that effect that look this is definitely something that which could fit in easily with modern furniture if it was just an accident or incorporated or detailed into something uh it was a little bit of work because i was using a diablo blade not the best blade for this kind of work and then another nice fun thing this is kind of where i was going with this from the start i planned on doing this was to rip those down and off just offset each one of those ribs so you get this crazy cool pattern and it's a little bit of work but honestly if you're doing something like a drawer front or something like that it's not too much at all so it turned out really interesting rattle can lacquer baby for d small work that was the way to go but yeah this was a fun one just really uh you know i was thinking about doing things different with the table saw sled and you guys have been watching me for the last decade you know i've done tons and tons of crazy crazy table saw sled videos oh my god grow some hair dude what the hell 50 pounds have 50 pounds lighter and a lot less hair i'll take the 50 pounds later but i like my hair now wild wild time it has been a wild ride lots of crazy fun innovations lots of cool projects and there are hundreds more videos similar to what you just saw i'm really excited about the possibility of bringing more content like this to you definitely let us know what you thought of this this type of content i think it would be a really interesting way for some of the newer folks the folks that have only been subscribed for a few years to see some of that older content and really kind of get a behind-the-scenes look at it anyway thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like and subscribe we really appreciate it and we'll see you in the next video

Channel: izzy swan

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Keywords: How to, diy, tablesaw, table saw, tools, projects, woodworking, shop projects, jigs, band saw, Izzy swan, Table saw tips, Table saw tricks, Hacks, Genius, Making a bowl, Table saw tune up, table saw accessories, woodworking projects

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Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2022