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1. 
   Fingercuts | Feb 22, 2003 02:03am | #1

   The September 2002 issue of American Woodworker had an article on making zero clearance inserts. 

   The materials used were two pieces of 1/4 inch tempered hardboard sandwiched together with plastic laminate on both sides.

   Other than cutting a slot for an existing splitter, this article did not include a splitter as part of the insert.  I don't remember which article I read suggesting a dowel installed behind the blade to act as a splinter.  The dowel was the width of the saw kerf.

   Good luck,

   Greg

   
   

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   Edited 2/21/2003 6:06:25 PM ET by FingerCuts

2. 
   forestgirl | Feb 22, 2003 05:22am | #2

   Here's a link to one of several DIY inserts/splitters that showed up in a Google search:

   http://www.woodworkingtips.com/pdf/tab-splitter.pdf

   The link for the search is:

   http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=tablesaw+zero+clearance+splitter

   IMO, the aforementioned mag article describes way more work than is needed to make a ZC, unless the WWer doesn't yet have a planer for thicknessing the stock.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)