Here are my answers to frequent comments about this video... Where's Your Push Stick?- Lots of viewers are concerned about me not using a push stick. I have push sticks and push pads that I use frequently. But there are times when I don't, and the reason I don't is because I am perfectly safe NOT using the push stick. Safety is often (not always, but often) a subjective determination. I've pushed miles of wood through table saws over the years and there are times when I don't need a push stick, BUT you might need one (and if you are questioning my technique, you definitely DO need a push stick). You can't go wrong using a push stick. With safety in mind, you might appreciate the video I made right after this one, "Accidents We Have Known," ... th-cam.com/video/BvH_3ToTqkc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7SuGyb6b1gRYOsEn Where is your guard and riving knife?- I've never had a guard or riving knife on my saw, BUT I totally agree that I should have the riving knife (not so much the guard). No one but me uses my table saw. In the video linked above I explain that if my plans to build a "real" workshop materialize, I will outfit it with a new saw outfitted with the riving knife. 👍 Why don't you simply just set and reset the fence?- If I had a high-quality fence with micro adjustment capability, setting and resetting the fence might be just as easy as using the trick I show here. BUT I don't have that luxury. The original fence on my old saw is not one that can be easily adjusted and readjusted to exact settings. If you have an old saw with a poor quality fence, you know what I mean. I've learned to work with the fence I have, but it would be unnecessarily time consuming to reset to previous dimensions. Also, I appreciated the comment below from the man who mentioned that he learned this trick from a pattern maker. The idea is entirely dependable for getting very precise measurements. I appreciate everyone's comments!
I was not too much concerned. I noticed you did something that I often do, which is when ripping boards maybe 4" plus, without a push stick, I keep some fingers over to the right side of the fence as a way to force my hand to stay on-track and prevent inadvertent drifting of my hand towards the blade. Knock on wood, but I too have run an awful lot of wood across a table saw. Of course I use a push stick for MANY of those instances but not all. Paying careful attention to paths, stance, weight-distribution, hand-control, etc are the keys to being able to do that for so many years without ever having a rotating blade contact any part of my body.
Clever idea… this old timer’s learning every day. And how refreshing to see a TH-camr in a regular sized shop, with sawdust and junk everywhere…. Keeping it real 👍. I do get a bit tired of seeing folk making content from their triple car garages with thousands worth if gifted high end tools!
@@terrynorton3182 Those old table saws often don't have them, they still run well after 20-30 years and outlast any job site saw made currently. Hundreds of them available second hand far cheaper than what you can buy at a box store.
I really upset James Hamilton of "Stumpy Nubs" fame a few years ago when he made a video about how it was every woodworkers dream to make their front door (huh?) and then proceeded to use five or six large industrial machines and a different operator on each machine that processed each aspect of his _dream project._ I made what I thought was a humorous comments his _dream door_ was easy to make with all the thousands of $$$ of industrial machines to do the work for him. Well James must have gotten out the side of the bed that morning which had an open second floor window and gave a really testy reply to which I responded with _"Oh _*_zinger_*_ you really got me there." To stop it escalating I took it off line and emailed him to voice my concern about his _dream build_ and the *not* doing it himself but used his staff on the high cost industrial machines. He never replied and while I found he did produce some really excellent content that was interesting and very educational for an old fart like me, I Unsubscribed and never went back. I really like making things but I am really crap at it so YT Channel like Stumpy Nubs was quite helpful but James had moved from the basic hand and power tools to industrial ones and lost touch with us common people. My apologies for the waffle but yeah, it's kinda nice to see the real workshop of this Channel even if it has a table saw that I will never be able to afford just like the expensive timber / lumber that I guess from the excessive price of it no longer grows on trees. Eg, where I live a 235mm x 19mm x 1.8mts piece of _unobtanium_ costs me AUD$53. If I want to make a simple foot stool, that I learned how to do in woodworking class 53 years ago the wood will cost me AUD$33. It's nuts. Again my apologies for the waffling rant.
Back in my "FNG" (...new guy) days, I learned to frame with a bunch of old guys who knew all the tricks, but didn't like talking or teaching. So (listen up youngsters who already know everything) I shut up, did what I was told, and never stopped watching and learning from the real pro's. I kept trying to guess how I would do it (before they did it), and I was always wrong. But I tried. I was constantly amazed at their tricks - how much faster they did it, how much better they did it, and how much smarter and more efficiently they did it. By keeping my mouth shut, observing intensely, and learning from those wiser and more experienced than I, I learned a TON that I would never have learned had I not had that opportunity. Never miss an opportunity to learn from others. Thank you Herrick! Brilliant! Short and to the point.
@@angellas.1314 Long time ago. Old timers didn't like giving away tricks to an FNG that they spent a lifetime learning. I get it. It's like training your replacement. We had to EARN it.
I got your joke Peter and thought it was pretty clever; *nice one!* 👍 Shame someone else doesn't have the sufficient intellectual quotient to be able to acquire the subtle nuance of your humorous comic genius from the location of his grandma's basement. 🤭
I found you comments about not having a guard or reving knife interesting. As a retired wood patternmaker we never had either on our table saws. When OCHA came through they said we did not have to use them. The types of cuts we made were difficult with a guard in the way and they agreed the guard added danger. I enjoyed your video. Gary
Too many modern ' inventions ' cause the human beings' minds' .......to stagnate and r o t under ' social media '' = kills creativity + brain cells....required for SURVIVAL. Look at our human history , from parents....on back several thousands of years. IF they had what we have today (high - tech ) we WOULDN'T BE IN THIS WEALTHY LAND ! today !
“A”technique! This was a two for! Your demonstration of what the gracious coworker shared with you was great and exact. The second was the way you turned your piece around to finish the cut with all your digits. To everyone watching these videos don’t concentrate on one thing to where you miss the other little things going around it. You will be surprised the things you can learn from someone just doing things they have done for years and don’t even think about showing specifically.
Thank you! Did catch that! Older Brother who was a master wood worker, trained in the Navy after 6 years of public school woodshop and 20 years a cabinet maker, never did that! Bet that would have tickled him to learn that!
I never saw this in 40 + years of doing carpenter work. I always tried to pick up tips from the old timerrs but i never saw this one. Definitely a keeper.
Love it, don’t care size of shop or # tools as long as good content I’ll watch. I’m retired vet/engineer with 4 car garage. 1/2 mechanics and 1/2 wood shop both side messy.
Looks like an old Sears contractor saw from the 70s. That’s the table saw I first used getting back into Woodworking in my latter years. It was a great saw, and I ended up making a dust collector port out of tin for the bottom of it.
I studied cabinet making in my younger years. I never got to work professionally so I've forgotten many things. I haven't thought of this in years. As soon as you said he wanted to cut smaller width pieces I remembered. It felt so good to think back on those times.
I bought a 1957 Craftsman 100 that looks a lot like yours and I use it almost every day. I just got done ripping lots of strips for cutting boards for Christmas gifts and could have used this trick! Thank you!
I bought mine in the 1980s. It's been worked hard. It's on its second motor. Great saw, but the fence is not great. But I've figured out how to work with it as it is. Thanks for the comment. 👍
Why do 69 people find it necessary to thumbs down this video? If you don't like it you can just go to the next video. I have a feeling it's the absence of a blade protector, kickback plate and push stick. How'd we ever survive, Mr. Kimball?
Because there IS. a thumbs down icon. The thumbs down people have the SAME rights as the thumbs up viewers. Don’t post an icon to use if it is going to offend you when it’s used. 🤦♂️
@@adgieem1Who said a thing about taking offense? I see you're still crying about Harris losing, eh? Go change your diapers and sit in the corner. offended, meh.
I get a kick out of how the most simple, most obvious tricks, I never would have thought of. thanks. now I hope i remember this next time I need to save my set ups and cut another piece.
I learned a new trick and I'm an old dog! Turn the board end over end before you finish the rip. No fingers close to the blade. When someone makes it look easy, watch and learn how you can do it! Great video.
Great tip to add to the arsenal! That's the table saw I bought new 40 something years ago and still have - use it seldomly and generally functions as a catch all horizontal surface while I am doing a project. Bu there when I am working with 2 blades ie dado stack.
I do that exact same thing with my old craftsman. The Dado blade lives in it, changing out the blade in my "newer" old Delta cabinet saw is getting tougher. keep dropping the and/or vibration dampener into the bottom of the cabinet. Plus it just saves time and set ups.
Thanks for posting this I'm the old-timer now too and do this trick and others that really come second nature to us at this point. I'm also glad to see your guard and rifing knife or not present I'd never use those I have all 10 fingers I'm 66 years old I've been woodworker cabinet maker Carpenter for well over 45 years and I consider the table saw the center of my shop I always have
I am about become a 75 year old old lady and your thumbnail caught my eye. I have that exact table saw that my husband bought brand new for my anniversary gift about 40 years ago. just fitted it with a new Rockler table saw crosscut sled. I had one I had built but I decided I wanted a new “fancy” one. Still having fun though I move a little slower. 🪚🐢😊😊
Tip of the year! I love it. What I normally do is put my pieces against the fence and move the fence until the wood is just touching the teeth but I believe the plywood method would be even more precise when absolute accuracy is needed.
Hello, Herrick. i am an retired, old farm child. I would call this method, the ' tim the shim '....,method. This, applies to alot of situations, for fixers of most anything with wires and a small engine..... found out over many years. Take care - of all within your power !
I learned this years ago from my uncle who was a Pattern maker. He used it to exactly duplicate an existing piece. This even accounts for blade wobble. You could have used this trick if he HAD moved the fence. This idea works on chop saw stops for length too!
Thanks for the useful tip and for anticipating my concerns about safety. One objection to the top guard is that it can foul the fence when ripping narrow strips; your tip would get round this and allow the use of the guard.
Thanks for sharing this. One more request - can you please do a video showing how you rip those narrow strips almost except for the last few inches and then flip it to complete the rip. Is that a safer technique than ripping through completely? TIA
That looks like the old Craftsman table saw that I completely rebuilt and repainted a couple of years ago. It still works great. My son kept coming over from 30 miles away to use it, so I gave it to him…along with a bunch of my other woodworking power tools.
I have the same old-time Craftsmen table saw. Does yours have a 1/8" low spot in the middle of the iron table, like it's concave? Mine has driven me crazy over the years, making inaccurate dados, etc. I was going to have a shop mill it flat, but then I got the extra bid to deepen the fence grooves, and it was more than the saw was worth, so I learned to compensate and live with it.
Nice. Never seen this and wouldnt have thought of it if I was ripping. But knew exactly what you were going to do as soon as you said you didnt want to change your measurement. I would have just been standing there setting the width otherwise.
Clamp or fasten a bench cleat to hook on the infeed side if fasteners available. Looks like an old Sears contractor saw from the 70s. That’s the table saw I first used getting back into Woodworking in my latter years. It was a great saw, and I ended up making a dust collector port out of tin for the bottom of it.
That's a nice one, any time you can take the tape measure out of the equation it eliminates the margin of human error. I use a similar concept for crosscutting half lap joints on a sled, you just need both workpieces and a shim the same thickness as the kerf
You know, I'm not an expert by any means, but it seems rare that I actually find a tip that I didn't know. Thank you so much for this. I'm also thinking that this is good for ripping thin strips safely. God bless.
@@herrickkimball I thought so ;-). But I even so appreciate the trick. It will motivate me to keep some strips in reserve during a work session, just in case I will need them later.
Mr. Kimball that’s an awesome trick,definitely just learned something. What all the safety police missed is you turning the piece around to finish the cut. Also they missed the part about this being a jobsite multi user type situation. And far as the sleeves go the safty police must not have ever worked out in the cold while doing production work. Easy to criticize from a 2 car garage with central air. Keep up the tips.
Flipping end for end is a good old time technique which is getting forgotten and lost and is far safer than running your hands and sleeves down both sides of the blade with no apparent riving knife 😳🇦🇺
Interesting, but could you have just used one of your previously cut wider pieces to establish the width between the saw blade and rip fence to readjust your rip fence?
old Craftsman saw. I use that exact one. Sloppy fence, but I figured out how to make it work. Zero clearance insert was a bitch to match the thin sheet metal insert, but I did it using VERY sketchy techniques. Loads of fun, and surprisingly I still have all my fingers.
this is the way I’m trying to train my brain to work. Because it’s math. I normally have an easy time with this kind of thing, but I’m new to woodworking so it’s a struggle.
I have been woodworking for 45 years and have not use that trick. I do however use the method of flipping the board over to finish the cut. It is a way to avoid putting your fingers at risk when cutting narrow stock
Here are my answers to frequent comments about this video...
Where's Your Push Stick?-
Lots of viewers are concerned about me not using a push stick. I have push sticks and push pads that I use frequently. But there are times when I don't, and the reason I don't is because I am perfectly safe NOT using the push stick. Safety is often (not always, but often) a subjective determination. I've pushed miles of wood through table saws over the years and there are times when I don't need a push stick, BUT you might need one (and if you are questioning my technique, you definitely DO need a push stick). You can't go wrong using a push stick. With safety in mind, you might appreciate the video I made right after this one, "Accidents We Have Known," ... th-cam.com/video/BvH_3ToTqkc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7SuGyb6b1gRYOsEn
Where is your guard and riving knife?-
I've never had a guard or riving knife on my saw, BUT I totally agree that I should have the riving knife (not so much the guard). No one but me uses my table saw. In the video linked above I explain that if my plans to build a "real" workshop materialize, I will outfit it with a new saw outfitted with the riving knife. 👍
Why don't you simply just set and reset the fence?-
If I had a high-quality fence with micro adjustment capability, setting and resetting the fence might be just as easy as using the trick I show here. BUT I don't have that luxury. The original fence on my old saw is not one that can be easily adjusted and readjusted to exact settings. If you have an old saw with a poor quality fence, you know what I mean. I've learned to work with the fence I have, but it would be unnecessarily time consuming to reset to previous dimensions. Also, I appreciated the comment below from the man who mentioned that he learned this trick from a pattern maker. The idea is entirely dependable for getting very precise measurements.
I appreciate everyone's comments!
That was my first concern as well.
@@SteeleMagnolia And mine. A shiver went down my spine when he said 'it comes in really handy, really handy'.
I was not too much concerned. I noticed you did something that I often do, which is when ripping boards maybe 4" plus, without a push stick, I keep some fingers over to the right side of the fence as a way to force my hand to stay on-track and prevent inadvertent drifting of my hand towards the blade.
Knock on wood, but I too have run an awful lot of wood across a table saw. Of course I use a push stick for MANY of those instances but not all. Paying careful attention to paths, stance, weight-distribution, hand-control, etc are the keys to being able to do that for so many years without ever having a rotating blade contact any part of my body.
Clever idea… this old timer’s learning every day. And how refreshing to see a TH-camr in a regular sized shop, with sawdust and junk everywhere…. Keeping it real 👍. I do get a bit tired of seeing folk making content from their triple car garages with thousands worth if gifted high end tools!
What would be refreshing is to see a "professional" using a Crown Guard and a Riving Knife. Unbelievable!
@@terrynorton3182 Those old table saws often don't have them, they still run well after 20-30 years and outlast any job site saw made currently. Hundreds of them available second hand far cheaper than what you can buy at a box store.
Im surprised you have any fingers left😮.
I really upset James Hamilton of "Stumpy Nubs" fame a few years ago when he made a video about how it was every woodworkers dream to make their front door (huh?) and then proceeded to use five or six large industrial machines and a different operator on each machine that processed each aspect of his _dream project._ I made what I thought was a humorous comments his _dream door_ was easy to make with all the thousands of $$$ of industrial machines to do the work for him.
Well James must have gotten out the side of the bed that morning which had an open second floor window and gave a really testy reply to which I responded with _"Oh _*_zinger_*_ you really got me there." To stop it escalating I took it off line and emailed him to voice my concern about his _dream build_ and the *not* doing it himself but used his staff on the high cost industrial machines. He never replied and while I found he did produce some really excellent content that was interesting and very educational for an old fart like me, I Unsubscribed and never went back. I really like making things but I am really crap at it so YT Channel like Stumpy Nubs was quite helpful but James had moved from the basic hand and power tools to industrial ones and lost touch with us common people.
My apologies for the waffle but yeah, it's kinda nice to see the real workshop of this Channel even if it has a table saw that I will never be able to afford just like the expensive timber / lumber that I guess from the excessive price of it no longer grows on trees. Eg, where I live a 235mm x 19mm x 1.8mts piece of _unobtanium_ costs me AUD$53. If I want to make a simple foot stool, that I learned how to do in woodworking class 53 years ago the wood will cost me AUD$33. It's nuts.
Again my apologies for the waffling rant.
731 "TooIworks" is 1st on that list!! 💯
Back in my "FNG" (...new guy) days, I learned to frame with a bunch of old guys who knew all the tricks, but didn't like talking or teaching. So (listen up youngsters who already know everything) I shut up, did what I was told, and never stopped watching and learning from the real pro's. I kept trying to guess how I would do it (before they did it), and I was always wrong. But I tried. I was constantly amazed at their tricks - how much faster they did it, how much better they did it, and how much smarter and more efficiently they did it. By keeping my mouth shut, observing intensely, and learning from those wiser and more experienced than I, I learned a TON that I would never have learned had I not had that opportunity. Never miss an opportunity to learn from others. Thank you Herrick! Brilliant! Short and to the point.
Well said
Too sad they didn’t teach you. Would be nice to pass those down now!
@@angellas.1314 Long time ago. Old timers didn't like giving away tricks to an FNG that they spent a lifetime learning. I get it. It's like training your replacement. We had to EARN it.
couldn't agree more on watching your elders work to learn the tricks---been there, done that, time to pay it forward
Nice trick. As soon as you put the thinner piece against the fence, I knew where this was going, and I couldn't believe I'd never thought of it.
Can't beat us old timers for tricks up our sleeve...thanks for posting this.
Be careful, those tips might fall out of your sleeves and cause a kickback !!... 😯...😂
😎👍☘️🍻
@@peterfitzpatrick7032 Your bubble wrap is falling off! You better head back to your basement! 🙄
@@timwilligar2525 Whoosh ! ... try getting a sense of humour ffs... 😂🖕
I got your joke Peter and thought it was pretty clever; *nice one!* 👍
Shame someone else doesn't have the sufficient intellectual quotient to be able to acquire the subtle nuance of your humorous comic genius from the location of his grandma's basement. 🤭
@@josephking6515Thanks , man ! 😎👍☘️🍻
I found you comments about not having a guard or reving knife interesting.
As a retired wood patternmaker we never had either on our table saws.
When OCHA came through they said we did not have to use them. The types of cuts we made were difficult with a guard in the way and they agreed the guard added danger.
I enjoyed your video.
Gary
Too many modern ' inventions ' cause the human beings' minds' .......to stagnate and r o t under ' social media '' = kills creativity + brain cells....required for SURVIVAL. Look at our human history , from parents....on back several thousands of years. IF they had what we have today (high - tech ) we WOULDN'T BE IN THIS WEALTHY LAND ! today !
Excellent method for matching existing boards. Flipping end for end on a narrow piece also excellent. Thank you for sharing !
“A”technique! This was a two for! Your demonstration of what the gracious coworker shared with you was great and exact. The second was the way you turned your piece around to finish the cut with all your digits. To everyone watching these videos don’t concentrate on one thing to where you miss the other little things going around it. You will be surprised the things you can learn from someone just doing things they have done for years and don’t even think about showing specifically.
The second one, I had to go back and check. I'm doing that from now on. Thanks
Thank you! Did catch that!
Older Brother who was a master wood worker, trained in the Navy after 6 years of public school woodshop and 20 years a cabinet maker, never did that!
Bet that would have tickled him to learn that!
Thanks for sharing!
Liked see that Craftsman table saw.
Have a blessed day.
Me too I have one just like it I use all the time
Love the old school methods! They are born of ingenuity and necessity… Bravo!
I did remodeling for 20 years and first time seeing this simple tip. Thanks HK!
Yes sir I was a carpenter for 52 years. I used that trick often. Thanks for the video.
I never saw this in 40 + years of doing carpenter work. I always tried to pick up tips from the old timerrs but i never saw this one. Definitely a keeper.
Wow. That's handy! Great table saw trick.
I can use it as a thin rip jig! 👍
Love it, don’t care size of shop or # tools as long as good content I’ll watch. I’m retired vet/engineer with 4 car garage. 1/2 mechanics and 1/2 wood shop both side messy.
Genius. Been following Herrick since forever, from his days on Planet Whizbang homesteading.
Looks like an old Sears contractor saw from the 70s. That’s the table saw I first used getting back into Woodworking in my latter years. It was a great saw, and I ended up making a dust collector port out of tin for the bottom of it.
I studied cabinet making in my younger years. I never got to work professionally so I've forgotten many things. I haven't thought of this in years. As soon as you said he wanted to cut smaller width pieces I remembered. It felt so good to think back on those times.
I’ve always found those narrow rips a hassle - this is a great way to get perfect results and stay away from the blade. Thanks!
I just waxed up my granddad’s old 1964 Craftsman. It’s getting ready to go to work.
I bought a 1957 Craftsman 100 that looks a lot like yours and I use it almost every day. I just got done ripping lots of strips for cutting boards for Christmas gifts and could have used this trick! Thank you!
I bought mine in the 1980s. It's been worked hard. It's on its second motor. Great saw, but the fence is not great. But I've figured out how to work with it as it is. Thanks for the comment. 👍
@@herrickkimballYep, I have TWO of 'em-my original one and my Dad's...both fences have always sucked...
Thanks for sharing, the tips and tricks myself and thousands of others are gaining from yourself and others are so useful many thanks
Why do 69 people find it necessary to thumbs down this video? If you don't like it you can just go to the next video. I have a feeling it's the absence of a blade protector, kickback plate and push stick.
How'd we ever survive, Mr. Kimball?
How do you see the thumbs down? I see no count
@@pappysproductions Do a search online for a thumbs down restorer. It's an extension. It's free. There used to be extensions to eliminate ads as well.
Because there IS. a thumbs down icon. The thumbs down people have the SAME rights as the thumbs up viewers. Don’t post an icon to use if it is going to offend you when it’s used. 🤦♂️
@@adgieem1Who said a thing about taking offense? I see you're still crying about Harris losing, eh? Go change your diapers and sit in the corner. offended, meh.
These tips are treasures. Thank you for sharing.
The best tips are the simplest tips. Thanks
As a rank newbie I just wanted to say thanks. I appreciate your experience and sharing it with us.
I get a kick out of how the most simple, most obvious tricks, I never would have thought of. thanks. now I hope i remember this next time I need to save my set ups and cut another piece.
Bingo!! Turns out accurate measurements with no measuring. Thank you!
Right on! Great idea. I think I’m gonna start using that . Thx for sharing.
Thank you Herrick, that's a great trick. So simple but not something I would think of on my own 🙂
I learned a new trick and I'm an old dog! Turn the board end over end before you finish the rip. No fingers close to the blade. When someone makes it look easy, watch and learn how you can do it! Great video.
Thanks a mil, I learnt something today that I will use.
Great tip to add to the arsenal! That's the table saw I bought new 40 something years ago and still have - use it seldomly and generally functions as a catch all horizontal surface while I am doing a project. Bu there when I am working with 2 blades ie dado stack.
I do that exact same thing with my old craftsman. The Dado blade lives in it, changing out the blade in my "newer" old Delta cabinet saw is getting tougher. keep dropping the and/or vibration dampener into the bottom of the cabinet. Plus it just saves time and set ups.
Thanks for posting this I'm the old-timer now too and do this trick and others that really come second nature to us at this point. I'm also glad to see your guard and rifing knife or not present I'd never use those I have all 10 fingers I'm 66 years old I've been woodworker cabinet maker Carpenter for well over 45 years and I consider the table saw the center of my shop I always have
If you need a guard, you shouldn't be near a saw...
the wisdom of older experienced artisans Is always to be desired.
Thank you, sir for sharing this.🫡
I’m 59, been using table saws for 42 years Didn’t know that👏
Love it! very clever idea! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this! That is a good trick. Please share any tricks you might have🙂
I am about become a 75 year old old lady and your thumbnail caught my eye. I have that exact table saw that my husband bought brand new for my anniversary gift about 40 years ago. just fitted it with a new Rockler table saw crosscut sled. I had one I had built but I decided I wanted a new “fancy” one. Still having fun though I move a little slower. 🪚🐢😊😊
Tip of the year! I love it. What I normally do is put my pieces against the fence and move the fence until the wood is just touching the teeth but I believe the plywood method would be even more precise when absolute accuracy is needed.
Neat, I'm already an Old Timer, but they say "your never too old to learn" guess i just learnt, Thanks
Hello, Herrick. i am an retired, old farm child. I would call this method, the ' tim the shim '....,method. This, applies to alot of situations, for fixers of most anything with wires and a small engine.....
found out over many years. Take care - of all within your power !
....from central eastern Alberta Canada ! where r you at ?
Great tip, it’s good to see something that I’ve never seen before nice job.
I learned this years ago from my uncle who was a Pattern maker. He used it to exactly duplicate an existing piece. This even accounts for blade wobble. You could have used this trick if he HAD moved the fence. This idea works on chop saw stops for length too!
Genius.Never too old to learn
Thank you for this great tip. I know there are many things tradesmen did over the years that are lost. Much appreciated.
Great tip. No push stick?
Thanks for the useful tip and for anticipating my concerns about safety. One objection to the top guard is that it can foul the fence when ripping narrow strips; your tip would get round this and allow the use of the guard.
Thanks for sharing this. One more request - can you please do a video showing how you rip those narrow strips almost except for the last few inches and then flip it to complete the rip. Is that a safer technique than ripping through completely? TIA
I made that video 6 years ago. Check it out here: th-cam.com/video/yW6owydyFo8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4M97U-22XfWxMunh
I've been in the trades for about 30 years and I just learned something new.
That looks like the old Craftsman table saw that I completely rebuilt and repainted a couple of years ago. It still works great. My son kept coming over from 30 miles away to use it, so I gave it to him…along with a bunch of my other woodworking power tools.
I had one in my flooring business. I gave it away when I closed up the store. Great saw.
Based on your clothing I'd say you have the same heater that I don't have.
Sometimes it's hard to work when I am shivering.
Great tip.
I have the same old-time Craftsmen table saw. Does yours have a 1/8" low spot in the middle of the iron table, like it's concave? Mine has driven me crazy over the years, making inaccurate dados, etc. I was going to have a shop mill it flat, but then I got the extra bid to deepen the fence grooves, and it was more than the saw was worth, so I learned to compensate and live with it.
😮 No, I don't have a low spot on my table. 👍
great idea. never thought of this trick. what i would like to say is how many tricks us old timers have and just do it as second nature.
Great tip! Thanks for posting this. OBTW, I think I have the exact same table saw as you do.
Nice. Never seen this and wouldnt have thought of it if I was ripping. But knew exactly what you were going to do as soon as you said you didnt want to change your measurement. I would have just been standing there setting the width otherwise.
Clever! Will probably use that one today sometime!!! Thanks
Really slick, thanks for taking the time to make that
I like that! Thanks for sharing!
Great tip. Can't beat the old school. By the way I'm 65...lol
I appreciate the value of experience, thank you!
Very clever…👍.
Thanks for the tip.
Clamp or fasten a bench cleat to hook on the infeed side if fasteners available.
Looks like an old Sears contractor saw from the 70s. That’s the table saw I first used getting back into Woodworking in my latter years. It was a great saw, and I ended up making a dust collector port out of tin for the bottom of it.
another ol-timer just learned another trick, thankyou! ----Have you ever shown the one, 'how to make a straight edge on a raggedly edged board?'
Thank you. Very nice trick 👍
That's a nice one, any time you can take the tape measure out of the equation it eliminates the margin of human error. I use a similar concept for crosscutting half lap joints on a sled, you just need both workpieces and a shim the same thickness as the kerf
Great tip & “jobsite safe” (i.e. practical, but still safe-ish). Thanks for sharing.
Very, very slick! Thank you for sharing.
Good ol' timer's wisdom, thank you
I love this, I’m sure that I will use it. Thanks
Great trick!! Filed away. 👍
You know, I'm not an expert by any means, but it seems rare that I actually find a tip that I didn't know. Thank you so much for this. I'm also thinking that this is good for ripping thin strips safely. God bless.
WOW!!! Now that’s a nice “ hack “ thank you!
That's an amazing tip! Thanks so much
Very nice trick, indeed! But what do you do when you have NO sample?
The technique does not work without a sample. ☹️
@@herrickkimball I thought so ;-). But I even so appreciate the trick. It will motivate me to keep some strips in reserve during a work session, just in case I will need them later.
Outstanding tip!
Thanks
The simple ideas are often the most ingenious ones. Not sure if l just contradicted myself there, but you know what I mean. ❤🇦🇺
Great tip Herrick 👍
It's super exact as well. Nice trick!
Mr. Kimball that’s an awesome trick,definitely just learned something. What all the safety police missed is you turning the piece around to finish the cut. Also they missed the part about this being a jobsite multi user type situation. And far as the sleeves go the safty police must not have ever worked out in the cold while doing production work. Easy to criticize from a 2 car garage with central air. Keep up the tips.
Great tip. Thank you.
Totally brilliant! Regards Chris
That is real knowledge!!! Men vs. boys knowledge!
Oh man, that's cool! Thanks!
Wisdom - the ability to make things simple!!
make sure you use the guard, riving knife and anti-kickback safety equip.
Flipping end for end is a good old time technique which is getting forgotten and lost and is far safer than running your hands and sleeves down both sides of the blade with no apparent riving knife 😳🇦🇺
Bravo, very clever thanks
Excellent tip from oxford England
Very neat job
Nice tip. Thank you.
Interesting, but could you have just used one of your previously cut wider pieces to establish the width between the saw blade and rip fence to readjust your rip fence?
old Craftsman saw. I use that exact one. Sloppy fence, but I figured out how to make it work. Zero clearance insert was a bitch to match the thin sheet metal insert, but I did it using VERY sketchy techniques. Loads of fun, and surprisingly I still have all my fingers.
Great trick! Thanks for that!
COOL! Thanks "old timer" 😂 P.S. I'm 73 😉
Good one. Thanks!
Great tip.
this is the way I’m trying to train my brain to work. Because it’s math. I normally have an easy time with this kind of thing, but I’m new to woodworking so it’s a struggle.
I have been woodworking for 45 years and have not use that trick. I do however use the method of flipping the board over to finish the cut. It is a way to avoid putting your fingers at risk when cutting narrow stock
Loved it!