Make SAFER, cleaner table saw cuts with this splitter/throat insert
Make SAFER, cleaner table saw cuts with this splitter/throat insert
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How would you make a zero clearance plate for an older jobsite saw that came with a half of an insert plate?
Here’s what I don’t get: every woodworker who uses a table saw NEEDS a zero clearance insert. So when are table saw manufacturers going to get wise to this and start selling them? Accessories are a great revenue source guys.
Hey James, thanks for the excellent video.
Great video, thank you for posting. I’ll start constructing one of these as soon as my finger heals up from a very nasty kick-back due to no riving knife. After 30 years of working with saws, well, I finally got a bit. My fault, but I’m fortunate it wasn’t worse. 🙂
I plan on making one of these but I don’t understand why you need to make a new splitter instead of using the one already behind the saw blade? (I’m new to woodworking)
"protuberances" +1
Excellent…love the hot glue shims.
Hi at 3.43 minutes you use a small square I think it is can I ask where you can get them or what they are called cheers steve p.s. great videos
I found an older delta contractor saw to replace my little Ryobi but the delta has a splitter unlike the riving knife my Ryobi has it’s fixed – so do I want to leave blade up all the way for all cuts to close the gap? I know the delta is a much nicer higher made in the USA quality but seems the Ryobi may be safer as I can lower blade and still have use of riving knife
Reminds me of the guy who took the guard off his framing saw…cut off both both his legs with it and couldn’t sue anyone cause he didn’t have a leg to stand on in court
Great video
I have plans to make zero clearance insert so this vid fits in nicely. Saw has no splitter knife. It came with one on the guard and yes it sucks and is on a shelf somewhere. Putting that baby in the insert is perfect. Thank you.
I loved the hot glue trick. However, the same paste wax you used did not work for me. Perhaps because I’m in a hotter climate, but it just stuck to the metal and I had to scrape it off. Petroleum jelly worked great though.
This video was so informative !!! Splitter ideas are excellent.
This is a very useful video. It is of very good help. Several weeks ago I had a very bad kickback while using my table saw. I got hit in the right arm by a flying piece of wood and sustained an injury. The event scared the bejesus out of me and triggered PTSD from my days in Vietnam where I came close to buying it. Since the kickback, I have had flashbacks not only about those events over 50 years ago, but also about the kickback. Before the kickback I was ok for decades. It is funny how an event years later can trigger unpleasant memories. Now I m afraid to use the saw, but this video tells me where I may have gone wrong. So for now, I use my bandsaw to make cuts.
My table saw is an old 10” Ridgid TS3650. It never came with a riving knife and the splitter and guard are a pain in the backside to use since it would never line up with the blade and wood would bind up on the splitter. So I didn’t use it.
Now I know there is a way to make a new blade insert and incorporate a splitter in its design to prevent kickbacks. Thanks for the great idea! Hopefully I can get back to doing wood work without having fear run through my mind.
Good afternoon, I always appreciate your videos and I love the teaching aspect. I also appreciate that you respond to all the comments and that you read all the comments and pay attention..
My question today is that I am picking up a powermatic 66.
It is obviously an old school machine and will not have a proper arriving knife or splitter.
I am looking at using the MJ splitter as you have shown in your videos previously. I just wanted to see if you knew of anything that would be a better fit for the powermatic 66.
I just changed blades and needed a splitter. Custom splitter is $60, so this seems cost effective, if lumber prices weren’t insane right now.
I’ve never seen anyone add splitters like that to zero clearance inserts. That’s a really good idea
This just made my saw more relevant again. It doesn’t have a splitter but I was not too worried about it kicking back because I’ve found it stalls out if it binds too much. BUT, ripping a 2×4 down the middle, if it’s long enough, sometimes forces me to jam a flat head screwdriver into the cut side as I feed it through, to make sure it doesn’t stall out the saw. THIS video shows me what I need to do with this saw!
This is a particularly good video, among a series of excellent ones. That’s due to a combination of factors: an important and valuable topic that doesn’t get much treatment, a very thoughtfully scripted presentation, and then – I don’t quite know how to describe it – a kind of happiness and contentment that really shines through.
There’s never a moment wasted in these videos, and that’s something else I especially value about them. You manage to resist the temptation we all face: to build toward a dramatic reveal or punchline at the expense of slightly, unconsciously, neglecting the rest of the presentation. When you treat every moment as valuable, there’s more total payload of information, and I for one can really feel the difference.
Your videos are very well done and full of great ideas. Thank you.
i usually just raise the blade into the new insert just put fence on top of one side to hold it down and use a little board or wood bar to hold down left of insert and just raise the blade to make the gap , cutting it though may create chatter on insert
Work for Rocklers. I recommend your great channel several times a week. Keep up the outstanding, no-nonsense content. Love it!
You just saved me $35, thanks, Stumpy!!
Great video. Very informative. Thank you!
That’s a great idea.. but I dunno about eh.. eh? Lol
I like. Skunks
Great video! I have a duo I fixed base router. I just got a husky portable workbench. Not sure if the router will attach to the router plate. Any recommendations?
Centre measuring ruler, another thing I didn’t know existed, I’ve so needed one of these.
Love your channel but it’s costing me money for the accessories I’ve not known existed and want to improve my wood working.
Hello, I just wonder why not make the last part of the slit larger to get some room for the metal original splitter?
Boy, did I get hurt by a saw without a knife! I won’t even plug a saw in that doesn’t have one now.
At 7:30 your demonstration using hot glue instead of adjustable screws is a real time saver and worked perfectly for me.
I’ll have to make one of these for my new Dewalt saw. The standard throat insert just doesn’t seem all that great and I can’t get it adjusted flush with the top.
But couldn’t I just use my normal riving knife/blade guard when using this insert? All I can is that your splitter is thicker than my riving knife.
Another winner James! Thank you.
Question: is there anything stopping you from using the riving knife that comes with the saw instead of making a hardwood splitter?
U had me at "pertuberences"….😂😂
Excellent. Just what I was looking for. Thank you.
Thanks so much for these very helpful videos. As a veteran woodworker, I can really relate to the problems caused by compacency! On one occasion, I actually stuck my finger into a blade that was turning at full force. Of course, I had removed the blade guard….Duh! Fortunately, I was able to extract my finger intact and only got a few stitches at the ER and a lecture from both the doctor and my wife! I wholeheartely support your approaches to safety. That saw is probably the most dangerous tool in the shop and needs to be treated with much respect. The guard went right back on!! Thanks again!
Does it matter what type of wood is used for the insert? 🤔
Great video mate just what i needed to know 😁😁👍👍
Would MDF work okay?
I made an insert the same size as my factory insert and used a hack saw blade to act as a side spring. The next time, I may try this way.
To me this is the most valuable episode I have seen to date. thanks
I really need a better table saw. Mine has aluminum plates and the saw blade "insert" goes the full length of the table. I’ll never understand why they designed it this way considering it’s a newer model and every other table saw has an actual insert
Thank you for this. I find most of the "tips for…) videos to be interesting but not necessarily useful. This one is one’s different. I’ve been tuning up my old Makita table saw and rolling ideas around in my head for doing this very thing. You’ve provided me with my answer.
the idea of using hot glue gun was ingenious!
You don’t seem to be using fingerboards on cuts that seem to need them…
This is so practical and helpful. There are a million videos on table saw inserts already, but you managed to make this one both innovative and remarkably simple amongst the crowd. Nice job James. I will definitely make a few of these.
For vertical cuts better use the band saw, is too danger cut this pieces in tablesaw
I’ve got a SS, Contractor’s Model, bought it used, great Saw. The Blade Insert is the only area on the Saw that is both great and at the same time, IMHO could use a little attention. I say this but the facts don’t support this idea. I’ve never seen a Professional Woodworker that has modifies his SS Blade Insert, so it must be Ok!
Here the Deal. Most people buy the SS because of the their "Safety Features" as well as their overall quality! The LAST THING you want to do is MODIFY a manufacture’s product, in such away, that it can jeopardize those very same features that you hold important to your safety! This is never a Good Policy! Should an accident happen, you would be out of luck, and rightly so.