Brooks Moses wrote:
noonenparticular wrote:
I thought about this and it should work in theory. Here's the problem I ran
into in practice.
First, the fence would have to be over 3 1/2" high for the plywood to bear
against it. No problem, fasten a tall subfence to it, right? Well yes, but
now you have the problem of the mass of the timber pressing sideways against
the top of the subfence which is fastened to a short TS fence. The leverage
of all that mass will make the subfence flex away from the blade, I'm guess
substantially. Secondly, I only have a 10" blade for the table saw which
has a max depth of cut of 3 1/4" while the boards are a *strong* 3 1/2. So
the blade wouldn't even make a through cut, which would concern me from a
safety issue with all that mass against a comparatively flimsy fence.

I think you should be able to use the outside edge of the board against
the fence, if it's reasonably straight. It only needs to be straight
enough to keep the saw blade from binding -- since you're cutting both
boards at once, they'll match up.

I just realized that I posted this in the wrong place -- I got noone and
Frank's replies mixed up, and thought this was you replying to the idea
about cutting both boards at once, which I just realized was Frank's
post....

Hope that's not too confusing!

- Brooks


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