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Phisherman
 
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Small hardwood wedges can be easily made using the bandsaw. If you
don't have a bandsaw, a dovetail saw will do. And yes, trying to cut
small parts on a tablesaw will lead to unpredictable projectiles !
However, the tablesaw blade can be lowered such that 1/16" thick wood
is left uncut, then break apart the pieces with a box cutter and hand
sand.

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:21:13 -0400, "Ollie"
wrote:

I am in process of making a series of wedged tenon joints and for that
purpose I need to have quite a many small wedges. First tried to do that
with my table saw were quite dangerous. I did try with the fence and with a
shop made sliding table. In both cases I had difficulties to keep the small
pieces in place. My third solution was to use the tenoning jig by tilting
the blade by 5 degree to prepare the wood blank for the wedges and then
slice the wood into strips of the same thickness as the tenon.

I am convinced that there is a better way, where you first slice the strips
and then make the wedges individually. The main problem is how to keep
those small pieces securely in place. If you make the wide wedges first,
then the difficulty is to slice the nonrectangular small pieces

What is your solution?

+++ Ollie