Table Saw Techniques: Tenons and Miters
Advance your tablesaw joinery skills by learning how to cut accurate miters and tenons.
Mar 26, 2013
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Hundreds of students pass through Marc Adams’ woodworking school each year, so he needs rock-solid safety practices for everyone who comes in, regardless of skill level. Tablesaw safety is essential, and in this video workshop series he shares his core principles for staying safe and avoiding kickback during any operation: Maintain control, use a splitter to avoid kickback, and limit your exposure to the blade with essential gear such as push sticks, pads, and the blade cover.
He also gives valuable lessons in:
- Ripping
- Crosscutting
- Building a sled
- Cutting joinery
A knowledgeable operator is critical to staying safe at the tablesaw (and any other woodworking machine or power tool). If you understand how the saw works and know the best practices for its use, the chance for a bad accident can be virtually eliminated. Machines don’t think, but you can.
In this episode Marc demonstrates how to cut miters…
Videos in the Series
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Table Saw Techniques: IntroductionMarch 26, 2013 -
Table Saw Techniques: SafetyMarch 26, 2013 -
Table Saw Techniques: RippingMarch 26, 2013 -
Table Saw Techniques: CrosscuttingMarch 26, 2013 -
Table Saw Techniques: Build a Crosscut SledMarch 26, 2013 -
Table Saw Techniques: Gear Up for JoineryMarch 26, 2013 -
Table Saw Techniques: Grooves, Dadoes, and RabbetsMarch 26, 2013 -
Table Saw Techniques: Tenons and MitersMarch 26, 2013
Comments
Great series!
This has been around for a while but I keep coming back to it often. It is a great set of basic instructions. Thank you very much.
I have been using a table saw for several years. This video is great for reminding me of things I kind of forgot as we as a great review of safety. (I'm putting my riving knife back in place.)
Sgreat series. Informative and great insight to safety.
Thank you
I really enjoyed this series and learned a ton.
Brilliant reminder of how to use a table saw safely. After watching this, I added a safety box to the front fence of my crosscut sled. Thanks
Great series. Learned a ton.
Only feedback is that for those of us learning to set up a table saw, we probably can't just run over to the jointer/planer we don;t have yet to make sure our sled fence is square...maybe explain how us beginners might do it.
Thanks
Fabulous series. Probably the best methods and materials for making a crosscut sled I have seen; and I have read about numerous of them and constructed 3 already in evolving to my current sled. With Marc's method, I may be making a 4th.
Excellent series, and particularly good on safety and on accuracy. For those of us in the UK, it would be good to know how to do all this with an overhead crown blade guard in place, both for complying with safety regulations and keeping dust extraction to a high standard.
Fantastic series Marc! My dad gave me all of this power tools before he passed and my favorite is the Jet table saw with 1) no riving knife and 2) no blade guard. All those old-timers with less than 10 fingers didn't believe in those things. Thanks for the sled design and video. My current sled is smaller and wobbles in the slots. And, your design supports all the different uses better. I learned about the hook stop. And, I have the dado blades and didn't know how to use them. They are coming out of the tool box and I'll give them a try. Thanks for this. I needed this when I was young. I play guitar and write software for a living, so those fingers mean a lot! Excellent work, you and Mr. Dale should be pround. Oh, and my tenons on an unadjusted bandsaw needed the dado and rabbet explain.
Excellent set of videos. I am an experienced woodworking but I can always learn something new from other craftsmen and craftswomen.
Marc Adams provides valuable information in a clear, easy to understand way. Thank you Marc (and Dale)
Thank you Marc,
Very useful tips. I will try some of your methods.
Very good review and reinforcing safety at the saw. I like the way he squared the back fence to the blade, much easier than other instructions I have followed. First time, though, I've heard on an FWW video that you fine tune a tenon to the mortise trimming only one side of the tenon.
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