5 Quick Table Saw Hacks / Woodworking Tips and Tricks

hello everyone I'm calling canet today I'm get to work on my favorite tool the table saw and today I'm going to show you five hacks that I use to get quick accurate results my table saw has a fence extension on it and I can go all the way out to 36 inches I don't often go out this far but when I do often I'm cutting the back of a piece of furniture or something and it's usually like a thin piece of plywood and doesn't that always happen it goes below the fancy trying to hold it up and move it along no no here's a much safer way if you get yourself any piece of board will work fine you put it underneath there use one of these quick clamps and clamp it down there and now you've got a resting place for that and now you can move that right through the saw blade and get a perfect cut safely I still do quite a bit of cross cutting on my table saw even though I have a sliding miter saw and I hate this miter gauge really need to replace it check this out I accidentally dropped this big heavy beast on the floor a few months ago and it broke off the nice handle here cuz it's only plastic so I've had to replace it with a wing nut which doesn't work very well and of course the the gauge thing here bent but you know what I never rely on these things anyway the way I always find out on a table saw where the straight across a 90 degree angle is by using a carpenter's square and everything on a table saw is keyed to the miter slots so to set up my miter gauge I always first of all you loosen it off so it moves around let's put it around this way so you can see it put that against the slot on the other side line that up like that tighten that down and now you're guaranteed no matter what this gauge says down here you're guaranteed that that's going to be a 90 degree cut a perfect cut now the other thing I cut 45 degree angles on here fairly often and again I you can't always rely on these things because sometimes they Bend this one comes loose now the way to do that is you just simply turn this and you can line up any two numbers on the inside I'm going to use the 8 and the 8 and if I take that and move the miter gauge up to that double check that 8 and that that way lock that down and that is now a guaranteed 45 degrees quick and simple now I work mostly with 3/4 inch material and from time to time I need to cut slots for one reason or other they're not really dedos technically they are but there's some kind of a slot so I need something that's going to make a quick slot like that and what I'd have is this little jig so this is a jig that I've made up and it gives me a 3/4 inch slot and I I named it and put Brady got it so that I don't throw it out because it looks like scrap wood but all you do is butt up to here but up to this one and cut out in between and you get a perfect slot and this is how it works just attach it to your fence and now you have a perfect slot I buy most of my wood rough this one's really rough but sometimes you'll have a board where you want to take an edge that might be warped or bowed or something and make at least one straight edge because you want to cut that on the table saw well it's really easy to do all you need is that any kind of sheet of plywood it needs to be flat along one side or straight along one side rather and all you need to do you don't even need a fancy jig for this you can just put that turn that plywood over like that and just get a couple of screws because often this wood is going to be split on the ends anyway so it doesn't really matter and just screw just screw it down from the bottom just screw it in nice and snug flip it over onto your saw set your fence wherever you want that and run your wood through [Music] [Music] and that gives you a nice perfect edge anytime it's sort of a one-time use or rare use whenever you've got a warped or bowed edge that you need to get it one straight edge on it's a quick easy way without having to spend a lot of time making fancy jigs and now I want to show you my sometimes outfeed table and all it is is a workmate as you can see you know you can pick these things up at garage sales and swap mates for I've seen them for like five bucks these are really good solidly especially these older ones really good solid units they they are heavy and all that I put in the top of it is a tee like this and I have a couple of screws on there so that I can put the the top on and now I know that that's the right height for my table and it's a little bit of an angle as well so that when the woods coming off it's not going to catch and it just slides right up on that it's quick and easy these things you can drop them down in seconds they store really well because they fold right up just a really handy little outfeed table well and that concludes my video for today five quick hacks for the table saw to give you quick accurate results I'm calling canet for woodwork web thanks for watching you

Channel: WoodWorkWeb

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Id: 31DWE1aRVto

Length: 7min 14sec (434 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 25 2017