Plans, products and more at my official website bennetthandmade.com One table saw sled - an endless amount of angles, blades and kerfs with an interchangeable and cheap hardboard insert.
Your shop looks very cleverly laid out and efficient, so much so that at first when the camera shows you "hitting the switch" and I saw Dewalt, I thought you had rigged up a Dewalt DW735 planer to somehow act as a dust collector through some kind of reverse flow mechanism 😂 😂 but then realized you mentioned it was a Dewalt table saw. This is exactly what I want to do with my cross cut sled - I don't want to keep building these things from wear around the kerf line and somehow I though someone out there had figured this out - thanks for validating what I thought to be quite clever !
Excellent idea! Just like having multiple zero clearance inserts for the saw itself. I especially like the fact that both sides of the hardboard are supported prior to the initial cut. I’ve seen others where one side was static and the removable inserts (or sliding panel) were on the other side. That works fine until you angle the saw blade. Thank you for sharing this.
I love what you did with the overhead dust collection on your table saw. Could you please provide the width, length and height of the dust collection part? I plan on making one myself and I would assume you probably went thru different iterations to come up with best width and length to capture the most dust. Thanks
Hi Brad, the overarm element is basically made of white central vac tubing, which rests on a wood arm bolted to the nearby wall. The run is about 36 inches, then a 45 sweep, then goes down 30 inches to a shop vac connection. Over the saw there's a 2.5 inch PVC hose and then that runs to the yellow enclosure with clear plexiglass sides. The yellow wood/acrylic piece is 12" long and 2.5 wide, basically covering the blade completely. Dust still escapes on edge cuts, but it does grab upwards dust on long rips where there's a good 2 inches or so of wood around the blade. Really the key element is not the length but giving the overarm lots of suction, so preferably it's own dedicated vacuum. Hope that helps, any other questions let me know
Hey, i like your videos and your setup. Could you possible tell me, on the incra track you added....how do you make sure when you set up your table, that it is exactly parallel to your saw? I am going to build a table that my saw sits on, and i would like an extended track like this for cross cutting. But i am unsure on how to make sure it lines up exactly. Thanks for any ideas you can give.
Hi Psi, the order was this: 1) Router the Incra track and set in in the table/surface. 2) Make a basic sled for the router, and have it ride on the Incra track slot, to finalize the edge the tablesaw sits against. (Thus an edge which is perfectly parallel to the track). 3) Since the blade/miter track and edge of the Dewalt saw all lined up, all I had to do is butt it up against the routed edge. Hope this helps and is somewhat clear :)
Instead of screwing the zero clearance inserts you might try recessed neodymium magnets....checking of course their distance from the saw blade. Might try that in my shop.
