Shop Tips
Shopmade Stop-Block System
Craft a simple tablesaw jig from scrap plywood to get repeatable cuts for furniture parts.
May 17, 2009
Don’t buy an expensive stop-block system when you can make one in the shop with scrap plywood, a quick-release clamp, and drywall screws. The shopmade fence attaches to your miter fence and makes it easy to cut parts all to the same size. It even includes a handy micro-adjust feature to fine tune your cuts.
The jig is quick-to-make, inexpensive, and you’ll find that you use it all the time in the shop.
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Comments
A very valuable feature of the commercial version is the ability to swing the stop block up and out of the way. This lets you easily cut square both ends without having to adjust the stop.
Certainly this is a very useful tip that may be new to beginners. But please provide better examples of safety. At 0:54 and 1:24 he carefully puts his hands inches from the spinning blade to remove scrap. Surely using a 12" push stick would be a wiser example to set and follow. More could be said about moving hands about near the spinning blade, leaving tools on the live work area, etc. Let's keep standards of safe practice as fine as the quality of the woodworking we promote.
I agree with Martin C, why he hasn't lost a finger or worse is beyond me. If he keeps using his fingers to remove off cuts I hope he has good insurance!
I also cringed when I saw him reach for the small cut-off while the blade was running. Please don't show unsafe practices in your videos.
Wow. Reaching your fingers in that close to a spinning blade (with no blade guard) to remove an offcut - really? No proper eye or ear protection as far as I can tell, no dust mask, long sleeves not rolled up. I would suggest, as others have said here, that FWW needs to set some basic safety standards that are adhered to for anything they publish.
When I saw that careless reach for the scrap with the blade still spinning, I stopped listening to your advice. We've all used a clamp and scrap block on the fence, duh. How on earth did your video warrant even a mention on FW?? 100% agree with all the above comments, e.g. eye, hearing and blade protection. If you ever move your hands away from the working wood while the blade is still spinning, it's not a matter of IF, but rather WHEN you shred your fingers. Time is cheap, wait until the blade stops!!!
You have got to be kidding me!!!!!! Even in 7th grade school shop, this stop block was taught. Maybe the clamps were different. BUT NEVER EVER would you have reached for the cutoff while the blade was still spinning!!!!!!!! Even HandyMan magazine would have never put out a video showing this stupid act.
Yikes! I hate to pile on 5 years later, but grabbing those little cutoff pieces next to the spinning blade in this recycled video made me cringe, shiver and call my doctor for a sleeping pill.
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