Table saw alignment

Thanks Niki!! As usual, very informative. I eat up your posts, keep’em coming!

I’m always learning….....

—Steve

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

I really like your “feather board”! How do you lock it down?

Lew

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the Universe's finest custom rolling pins.

Thank you for your kind words Steve and Lew

Lew
The “featherboard” is held by hand…

It has a dowel that fits the miter slot and serves as a pivot point…

The black pad is from a mouse pad…..to make the featherboard a little bit Hi-Tech :-)

I just swivel it clockwise to press on the workpiece…

as you can see, my left hand stays all the time around the miter slot…

I use it mainly with short boards that I can feed with my right hand/push block while my left hand stays on the table top.

Regards
niki

Your Genius mind is clear for all to see!!! Keep it up. It’s the low-IQ guys like me that need help from gentlemen like you.

You always come up with things I never thought of !! WOW

-- Alex...builder of wooden wings for vintage sport biplanes...I'm your wingman :)

Thank you Lane

I don’t think that you have “low IQ”...you just have less experience than me…

Looking at your “Resume” I’m 3 time bigger (well, to be true – older) and I believe that when you’ll come to my age, you’ll know much more than I do.

Best Regards
niki

Your Genius

-- jeanmarc manosque france

Very nice Niki.. I especially appreciate your methods of work that keep your hands clear of the blade.

-- "Everything that is great and inspiring is created by the individual who labors in freedom" -- Albert Einstein

Thank you so much

Jeanmarc
If I was a genius, I would be working at least in the “Silicon Valley” and not in my small garage in some unknown small town in Poland :-)....

Chris
At the age of 63+, every finger is very important :-) so I do everything to keep them away from “slicing tools”...

Regards
niki

I think qu’ one should not work has silicone valley to have ideas .je finds that C is very an good idea which you made. the photographs and the explanations are brilliant.

-- jeanmarc manosque france

That pivoting featherboard is one of the smartest things I’ve seen, but seems so simple once you know about it. I especially like that you don’t have to clamp it down and it’s so quick to use and “set”. I’ll be making one of those shortly.

thanks niki!!! your instructions are always sooooo clear and informative…I am putting this in my fav’s!!!

-- Matt--Proud LJ since 2007

Great post! Respectfully speaking, I knew all that stuff, but you were able to explain it, kinda like Newton didn’t invent gravity, but was able to logically explain its abilities and limitations. Great teachers have abilities to promote and develop their students unconscious knowledge pool. Hopefully my praise will not be mistaken for malice, my prose has deteriorated since Wrt, 101. Thanks again.

-- Ciao, gth.

Than you so much for your kind words

Gusthehonky
I don’t think that I “invented” it, probably, I’ve seen bits and pieces here and there and I just connected everything together…

Here are a few more pics of the “featherboard” that I hope will make it easier for you to make it.

As a base, I used 1½” thick wood.
The wheel carrier is made of 5/16” “floor panel” screwd to the base.

The wheel is 2” diameter and 1¼” thick, cut with Hole Saw on the drill press.
To get the wheel totaly round and square, I pushed bolt, tight with nut and chucked it in the drill press and whill turning, I sanded it with sanding block…like this (from another post).

Drill a larger hole for the bolt head and washer to sink in

Finger tight the nut so the wheel can turn free

Add washers as required so the wheel will be a little bit above the table

While holding the lower nut, tight the upper nut

I made a red line just before the blade front teeth…I always keep the wheel center before the line

Regards
niki

Niki,

Very, very ingenious!

-- Made lots of sawdust and pounded some nails. Haven't finished anything, though.

Thanks again for the learning experience, let me know if the house next door to yours is for sale I could watch you all day.
Thanks Ron

-- Ron Central, CA