How Can I Make A Cheap Table Saw?

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A table for the saw is a wood processing instrument that is made of quality wood materials by an expertise woodworker. This table is one of the significant components of all table saw as it provides the machine tool with a stable stand that simplifies the woodworker working process. Table for saw can be made any form or type of saw be it compound miter, table saw, or circular saw irrespective of their sizes either big or portable size.

How do I know the size of my saw?

Saws are made of several sizes from a tiny working size of 10 inches to an impressive 50 inches of cutting power. You should select the correct table size for your saw, based on the type of work or the projects you want to use the saw for.

Any saw that is capable of process whole sheets of wood materials requires a big table of 50 inches cutting capacity for easy and perfect cutting output. While portable contractors and DIYs saw need a table of 24 to 28-inch cutting capacity that is suitable for most projects. When preparing to create a piece of large furniture, 25 to 35 inches cutting capacity table are preferable.

How can I make a cheap table saw

To build a table for your saw as a DIYs lover or professional woodworker is easy if a professional woodworker guided you. In this section, I will teach you how to build a cheap tablet for your saw in a very simple way with your skill saw in a matter of minutes. Firstly, ensure you get saw ready. 

The next you will take two pieces of ripped down wood that will serve as our fence, you will put glue on one edge and then put it in place and ensure the bottoms are flush rightly, you will then run a couple of screws in it to hold it while the glue is drying. Note that,  this piece was cut to 24 inches by 21 inches, although the size isn’t really important. It is just to have a nice little work surface there. Now take your t-square, and you’re going to draw a straight line wood tray, and this is where the material you want cut will slot in. 

Your saw blade will poke through this piece, and at this point, you will need to be pretty careful about getting the blade lined up so you will get all the strobe light square on here and you have to checked to ensure the blade and the fence are lined up pretty well. So, you are going to line that up and get the right spot for it, and from this point, it gets a little bit tricky because what you want to do is make sure you hold this thing in place get it started, and then slowly plunge into the material and that will give us the slot that we need. Now you are going to do that a couple of times, till you get that slide a little bit wider than before and when the blade is turning from the other side it’s not touching wood, and again you need to be really careful about doing it pull that back and do it again.

Now there is a need for us to have a way to mount our saw to our work surface. So to do that you are going to take a 3/16 inch drill bit and drill four holes one at each corner of the table and making sure you stay away from the top and back if it has a bevel on it, with holes drilled you need to plunge that in into the slot that we made before and you will get it pretty well lined up just by eyeballing it. 

Then you will have to put a screw in one corner and get your screw in and what you really need to do is make sure that the blade is right there at a perfect 90-degree angle from the front of the saw itself that because you can put a fence and exhilarates on there and other jigs later. Although it is not necessary, you do that, but for several purposes, you can take the time to make sure that the blade has lined up at a perfect 90-degree angle to the front edge of the plywood and make sure the two things are lined up right and then run your screws in. 

With everything lined up you have taken a zip tie, you can pull the depress, the trigger and zip tied it shut and then plugged the cord into a power strip with an on/off switch so you can use that as your on/off switch and then for me I’m just going to mount this to my table. It could be done mounted to a couple of sawhorses if you do mount on the sawhorses make sure you’re screwing them down and securing it well.

 It is not good to have a saw horses to rock out doing the cutting process. So, you are expected not to use any screws that were less than 3/4 inch. Mine are protruding through it, so you could either file that down with a file, or in my case I will use an angle grinder with the sanding disc on it after I turn the power on, it is all right with that.

 Now take those pieces that you screwed together earlier, that little L shape sticking out there paste it a little bit, and clamp it to the blade. You should be careful at this point because it’s easy to get this off, so it should be right, and the blade is set up perfectly right now, and then you should just add a little glue to any little scrap piece that there. So, you going to set it up and it should be squared to the fence, and basically, you just need to create at-square of any sort you know and like.

That is all about how to create a cheap table saw for use, with the above process, you can easily and quickly build any sort of table for your saw if you patiently follow the above direction and guide.

Courtney P.

I’m a 20-something stay-at-home mother and wife. I have an amazing husband, a beautiful daughter, two loving dogs, and a lazy cat. I wouldn’t change my life for anything! I love to read, listen to music, cook and blog!

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