- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: North Light Books (25 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1558705120
- ISBN-13: 978-1558705128
- Product Dimensions: 28 x 21.7 x 1.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,158,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jim Tolpin shares his masterful techniques for using the table saw to achieve a variety of safe and accurate cuts, including ripping, crosscutting, mitre cuts, grooves, dadoes, rabbets, curves, moulding, joinery and more.'
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THE TABLE SAW IS A MAGNIFICENTLY simple machine little more than a table through which a spinning blade partially protrudes. Read the first page
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Tolpin's Tablesaw Tome is Topnotch Too, 28 Jan 2000
By J. G. Heiser - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jim Tolpin's Table Saw Magic (Paperback)
I enjoy Tolpin's books. Like his toolbox text, this reads well and has helpful photos and diagrams. It covers purchase, setup & maintenance, and common operations. Even if your saw manufacturer had included a decent manual, this book would be better. Like Lonnie Bird's new Bandsaw Book, this book represents a new generation of workshop guides--a worthy successor to de Cristoforo's "The Table Saw Book". The language and style is more appealing to a younger audience, and the use of modern materials, such as mini-trac, is helpful. Tolpin doesn't assume that the reader will make all of their own fixtures from scratch. He not only provides complete instructions for making fixtures, such as cross-cutting sleds and high-accuracy miter gauges, but he also gives equal time to commercial equivalents. Providing helpful guidance on both commercial and home-built accessories is a great approach--he does it in the setup section also. This enjoyable book won't spend much time on your shelf--it'll be scuffed up & dusty in your workshop where it belongs.
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Read this book before you buy a table saw, 7 Nov 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jim Tolpin's Table Saw Magic (Paperback)
Excellent book that starts with a description of what to look for in the selection of a table saw and blades/accessories. I thought it did a better job of explaining how to care for and maintain a table saw than did my owner's manual - I have probably saved the price of the book in saw blade resharpening already. Thouroughly covers basic and advanced table saw cuts and how to do them safely. Describes a number of jigs based on his design of a rip-fence accessory attachment and makes complex cuts and joinery look easy. I'll soon be throwing away some of my more awkward mitre-slot jigs.
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Good Book, 7 Dec 2002
By KRASSEL - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jim Tolpin's Table Saw Magic (Paperback)
As noted in some of the other reviews, Mr. Tolpin is not a Pulitzer prize winning author. But he is a hell of a woodworker. I lucked out and bought this book at my local library's yearly book sale. I got it and four other related books for five bucks. I would buy it at full retail just for the jigs and sled diagrams. Some have complained that there are no measurements included, well how could there be? The idea of the book is to give you ideas for your own applications. I don't have the room for all the jigs shown in this book, nor would I ever use em all if I did. But I did glean enough from this book to make it worth having in my woodworking "library". I would reccommned this book to everyone who uses a table saw, beginner or pro.
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