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How To Make A Pair Of Nunchucks
Alexander writes…
“I was browsing through your wood working site and I’m in a bit of a dilemma.
I do nunchuck seminars for kids and I’m trying to produce a few sets of nunchucks myself to keep their costs down, but my issue is the octagonal shaping. I was wondering whats the best way to cut [...]
How To Convert A Circular Saw Into A Table Saw
Allen writes, “hi what is the best way to convert my hand held circular saw into a saw bench?”
About twenty years ago I saw an advertisement for a multi function folding work bench where a hand held circular saw could be mounted into it to turn it into a mini table saw. I search around, [...]
What is the Best Table Saw for My Wood Shop (cabinet and hybrid saws)?
Continuing on from the part one of this article this article will review the cabinet and hybrid table saws. Why are cabinet table saws so heavily used in commercial wood working shops? What is a hybrid table saw and would it better suit my table saw needs in the wood shop?
What is the Best Table Saw for My Wood Shop?
There are many tools that are useful, but not essential to wood working, depending on what you are building. A dedicated mortising machine makes quick work of cutting mortises, but if you don’t build a lot of furniture that employs the mortis and tenon joinery do you really need it? However, there are [...]
How do I align the Ryobi BT3000 / BT3100 sliding miter table? Part 4
This is the fourth post in a series of table saw alignment articles.
Here we will talk about aligning the sliding miter table. The sliding miter table is an interesting twist on the standard miter gauge. It offers a larger working area to hold the material being run through the saw.
Because of its design it there [...]
How do I align the Ryobi BT3000 / BT3100 rip fence? Part 3
This is the third post in a series of table saw alignment articles.
Verify and align the rip fence.
What are we trying to accomplish?
Straight rip fence
The rip fence to be parallel to the rip fence.
The face of the rip fence to be perpendicular to the main table.
What is the effect when the rip fence is out [...]
How do I align the Ryobi BT3000 / BT3100 rip fence rails? Part 2
Second part in the how to align a Ryobi BT-3000 / BT-3100 table saw.
How do I align my Ryobi BT3000 / BT3100 table saw? Part 1
This is the first in a series of posts that will cover several areas of the table saw that need to be aligned. They are: Rip fence rails, rip fence, sliding miter table, crosscut fence.
Both table saws share many components and the BT3100 is an incremental version of the BT3000. These alignment procedures will work [...]
How do I stop table saw vibration?
I am an owner of a ryobi BT-3000 table saw with the factory base. I like the table saw, but I don’t like the base. The base consists of a set of stamped steel that are bolted together. The frame makes the table saw light weight and more portable. However, because [...]
Freud 10″ 50 Tooth Thin Kerf ATB Perma-Shield Combination Blade TKR906
Table saw blades; I never gave them too much thought other than number of teeth, sharpness, and intended application. I have a couple of 10” carbide tipped 40 tooth blades that I use on a regular basis. They cut fairly well with the typical amount of vibration marks on the cut face.
I finally decided to [...]
Ryobi BT-3000 helpful sites
This post is more about Ryobi bt-3000 sites that I have found helpful in maintaining and modifying my table saw.
Ryobi BT-3000 modifications – contains a very detailed description about how to deal with the shim problem. If you haven’t already had to face this, you most likely will an unfortunate design problem of the BT-3000. [...]
Ryobi Benchtop Table Saw BT-3000
I purchased my BT-3000 used through the newspaper classifies. The owner had upgraded to a Delta cabinet saw. Not within my budget, at least not yet. Along with the purchase came the extension rails and table. He threw in a set of zero tolerance throat plates.
From other owners I have been told that the motor [...]
10” contractor by SawStop
Contractor style saws are a great medium level table saw. For the home wood worker, a good contractor table saw will provide years of reliable use and have enough horse power to cut through most wood stock.
There are many different manufactures of contractor saws. Most all have the same basic feature set with differences typically [...]