Well I am finally going to build a cross cut sled. I have rounded up the hardware, made a dertimination of size, and glued runners to a piece of flat straight birch plywood. I took my time reviewing both versions of Kiefers works of art. I have rough sized all my materials for now and I will sit down and draw up some plans for the next post. For now I got just a couple of pics starting off. Any questions or comments fire away. Thanks for looking.
-- CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!
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-- Jamesw
I have changed the layout slightly, and I will be including a double bottom. I will also be including a double fence but it will not have an anchored fulcrum. Instead it will have 4 spring loaded adjustable knobs. I am waiting on “T” tracks to arrive that will be routered in for the 45 deg framing feature. And a piece of track for the top of the fence that will hold a sliding clamp and stops all from Lee Valley. For now here’s some updated pics of the overall layout. The top piece of the floating bottom is in small pieces of 1/2" ply right now but it will be almost the same size of the 3/4" bottom, just 1/4" shorter to allow for adjustment knobs to move the fence/bottom to float.
-- CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!
-- CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!
-- CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!
My table saw has a cast iron portion in the middle the size of the base, then heavy gauge sheet metal wings next to each side, and, on the right side a plywood drop in to extend the overall cut widt to allow for a 30" cut to the right of the blade and 16" to the left. The saw height is the same as everything in the shop, ie, production table, Roubo bench, window counter top bench, and, motorized miter saw bench with all the power tools under it.
-- CHRIS, Charlottetown PEI Canada. Anytime you can repurpose, reuse, or recycle, everyone wins!