{"id":2740,"date":"2012-08-17T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2012-08-17T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T17:07:15","slug":"how-to-extend-your-tablesaws-crosscut-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/tips-tricks\/how-to-extend-your-tablesaws-crosscut-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Extend Your Tablesaw’s Crosscut Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doesn’t it always just seem like when you go to cross cut a wide panel that your tablesaw is just<\/strong> an inch or two too short to make the job safe? It’s not a smart move to start a cut using the miter gauge with it not fully supported by the miter slot. Surely, though, we’ve all risked it when the work piece is so large that it forces the gauge\u00a0 to hang off the table by just a bit.<\/p>\n

But now there’s an effective solution you can whip together with some plywood cutoffs.<\/p>\n

We just saw this solution to the problem in the September\/October issue of Fine Woodworking, by a fella named Dan Sweeny. We liked it so much that we had to give it a try. The extension is built out of Baltic birch plywood. Take a close look. It straddles the tablesaw fence rail with two fixed cleats sized to hug the rail, and uses Rockler’s universal fence clamps to keep it in place. The plywood platform has a perfect dado sized to match the miter slot in the tablesaw, 3\/4″x3\/8″.<\/p>\n

We can’t give you plans for this because the exact sizes depend on your tablesaw. But you can figure it out. Build yours to suit:<\/p>\n