Genius Curved Table Saw Sled! | Woodworking Table Saw Cove Jig

hey everybody welcome back to maker's madhouse uh playground uh today we got a really fun one for you and if you saw the thumbnail you're probably thinking what the heck now this is one of those videos that's going to start out with like but why until you see what we do at the end of it at the end of it at the end of the video and then you'd be like oh yeah so you'll be more excited than a three-year-old in the world's biggest candy store i'm telling you [Music] okay so this is a table saw sled now most of you know that some of you that are brand new or just learning all this stuff table saw sled and i've done a few videos on building a table sauce light i did a 10 minute table saw sled we even did a table saw sled designed to make coves in material i'll link that somewhere and then um this one that i'm about to do i guarantee you've never seen this before this is something a little bit off the wall so what i want to do is create a cove sled so i'm going to run the piece at an angle to the blade rather than straight across it just to cut it what i'm going to what that's going to do is create a little cove in the material but i want that cove to be curved i don't want a straight coat so i'm actually going to build a base and a table saw sled that curves through the blade and to do that since time is always against us like morpheus says in the matrix we're going to use the c and cnc today so just a little while ago i designed this quick layout in sketchup this is sketchup pro for those of you who are wondering the blade goes here this is going to be the track that the table saw sled slides on now i laid it out here in sketchup and then i imported into vetric this is vcarve pro and i laid out the g-code here so we're going to drop some mdf on the avid csc real quick and cut this out slam it together now you could do this by hand absolutely you just have to lay out from a center point so what i mean by that is everything is laid out from a center point way out here instead of trying to like cut a curve and then match the curve everything starts from a center point so that line goes to the center point that line goes to a center point and that creates a nice even flow throughout the piece when you have a sled that's going to slide on that you need those you need those lines very co-planar to each other so it's a nice smooth movement [Music] so he says don't follow all the rules day by day okay so the next thing we need to do is put these two runners on so our sled will go along this curve right here so i'm going to start at the back glue and screw it on and then i'm going to add the front one on but i want to make sure that i'm not really creating too much tension on this piece this needs to move fairly smoothly so i'm going to use a little spacer do the same and i'll show you a neat little trick how to get this thing to smooth this smooth how to get this thing to smooth gladly [Music] [Applause] all right i am using inch and three inch and a half screws they are coming through a little bit not a big deal i'll just grab the grinder and hit hit those little tiny pokeys so i don't get hammered so next up i'm going to take my sled the table saw sled flip it over put it on this so eventually it'll slide nice and nice and smooth so this is going to go here now what i want to avoid doing is getting this too tight so i'm going to use a spacer in here and the spacer i'm going to use is just a sheet of paper that's all it needs [Music] we're out of time [Music] all right so to give this a better chance of avoiding any hang ups i'm going to put an eighth inch round over on both ends put a nice wax coat on this and then like any table saw sled we're going to need a fence at the front and one at the back to support this once we cut through the material [Music] later [Music] all right we'll let that dry and then i'll buff it out and then we'll put the fence on and then we'll be uh we'll be cutting curves this is fun y'all can come back in a couple hours i'm gonna be here [Music] [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] um [Music] so [Music] i was too lazy to get my grinder out this works all right so i'm going to take my rhyming knife off for this application because it would be in the way otherwise and then initially when cutting this i'm going to be cutting through that sled which is mdf it's going to make a butt load of mdf sawdust i also want to be careful with mdf dust collection respirator all that fun stuff so to mount this thing i have a wood outfeed table so i'm going to use that i just want to line up my blade in this case i'm going to line it up right about center there i have a couple of places where i can screw down to my fence or my wooden outfit table here and up front here i am just going to add a couple of clamps to help clamp it into position i'll probably put a piece of scrap wood in between here and the um the square bar to give it a nice good grip [Music] so i'm sure many of you saw that it's sitting up slightly because i put a one inch piece in there and it's really about 7 8. i'm not going to worry about that that little bit isn't going to make a big difference so next up i'm going to throw my dust collection on turn my air filtration on i'm going to slowly raise the blade up into the mdf until we get a groove let's cut all the way through the mdf and that's going to give me some direct some diameter measurements on the inside that i can use to lay out the piece that i'm actually cutting like the piece that we're going to keep kind of cutting and stuff you know what i mean [Music] [Music] so so what i want to do is put some of these slight curves into this piece of um figured maple now before i do that i want to figure out that you know the distance of my um curve concave uh groove thing i want to know how wide it is apart so i can adjust that by raising or lowering the blade to make it a the desired you know thickness um so i'm going to go ahead and give that a test measure that out and then i can lay this out so we get a really nice consistent cut across the piece of material [Music] so that is just shy of one and a quarter inches so i'm gonna go ahead and raise that up just a little tiny bit see if i can get it to one and a quarter so what i want to do is line this up or lay this out so it has quarter inch increments and it doesn't have to be perfect with the blade um you can lay it out anywhere on the board so you have just a tick mark that you know is in one spot and then lay that out from there one and a quarter one and a quarter one and a quarter now in this case i want to leave a little bit in between so i'm going to go ahead and probably leave about an eighth in between by the time we get done sanding that that will kind of smooth that over so i'm gonna go every one and let's go ahead and put a tick mark right here actually let's do it right here this will be easier i give myself a little meat here and then i just come over from that one and a quarter plus my eighth so one and three eighths and one and three eighths now i could spend all day laying it out like that instead i'm just going to go ahead and grab my spacer i'm not looking for absolutely perfect just close here so that gives us a good jumping off point so i'm not just going to cut curves in this there's another step after this so don't don't just take off right now thinking oh i've seen everything you haven't [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so i know a lot of you guys are thinking how the heck is he going to send that well i have a a secret rep in my secret weapon secret weapon in my arsenal so if you guys haven't seen this this is a very inexpensive 45 degree angle drill and a nice cool cushiony pad that you can both get both these at klingsport woodworking shop i need you plug come here you all see that i didn't even have to move i'm spoiled [Music] [Music] [Music] so yeah that is so cool [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] all right guys there you go you can do some really fun things with your table saw doing pattern and texture stuff like this especially when it has those slight curves in it that really sets it off it's a small thing but it sets it off now that being said you could make this so it has a tighter radius and get more of a curve in there or if you're doing a large panel you could create a bigger sled and if obviously if it's a larger panel you're going to see that curve more through it so this is just a fun way you can get more out of your table saw now this real quick i want to mention this is a butterfly that was gifted to me by my friend yuri tazuki yuri is a renowned metal sculptor i'm educated at princeton she's a large form metal artist and an artist and she does some small things like this she's really talented and if you'd like to check her out i'll put a link to her instagram below so you can see her work it's pretty phenomenal so yuri if you're watching this thank you so much we'll keep this and treasure it i wanted a kind of a nice place i could put this so we're gonna put a nice really elegant candle above it and use it as a candle stand um maybe even mount it on the wall who knows but really enjoy this process i hope you guys enjoyed this video learned something and had a little fun along the way ah you know the rules don't forget to like and subscribe we really appreciate it and we'll see you guys in the next video

Channel: izzy swan

Views: 197,122

Rating: 4.9480968 out of 5

Keywords: How to, diy, tablesaw, table saw, tools, projects, woodworking, shop projects, jigs, band saw, Izzy swan

Id: qWr_yGuL3-Q

Length: 16min 49sec (1009 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 07 2021