- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (26 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1558706771
- ISBN-13: 978-1558706774
- Product Dimensions: 28.1 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 215,177 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Do more with your saw than you ever thought possible!
The table saw is a magnificently simple machine capable of performing an incredible range of cutting tasks. In this revised and updated edition of his woodworking classic, Jim Tolpin shares his masterful techniques for using the table saw to achieve a variety of safe and accurate cuts, including ripping, crosscutting, miter cuts, grooves, dadoes, rabbets, curves, moulding, joinery and more.
You'll find ample instruction for using a variety of table saws, plus information on choosing and using accessories, maintaining your saw, and working with jigs and fixtures.
It's the most comprehensive guide available with more than 150 detailed illustrations and photos that show you how to build: Rip and crosscut sleds for high-precision cutsAn adjustable dado-spacing fixtureA miter jig with a sliding stopHold-downs for the rip fence and saw tableA circle-cutting fixtureA raised panel jig with positive sliding action and integral hold-downsA carriage-type taper jig featuring a unique guidance systemA vacuum-actuated fence for ripping thin slicesWith "Jim Tolpin's Table Saw magic, 2nd Edition," you'll quickly see why the table saw isn't just for ripping and crosscutting anymore.
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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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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Tolpin's Tablesaw Tome is Topnotch Too
28 Jan 2000
Format: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.
47 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Read this book before you buy a table saw
7 Nov 1999
Format: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.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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7 Dec 2002
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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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