Making This Zero Clearance Miter Saw Fence - Woodworking - Workshop 

I made this to replace the original fence completely. It adds support near the blade and reduces the amount of tear-out. It's also higher on both sides for extra support. More detail and the exclusive followup video in the build article: ibuildit.ca/projects/making-a-miter-saw-fence/

I’m guessing you handmade all those clamps , table saw guides an inserts …. You sir are freaking talented!!!!!!!

Holy moly! Could have used this video yesterday! Spent the whole day building a new fence for my saw. Now I have to dismantle what I built and build this one. Great idea john.

Dude couldn’t resist after all the time I’ve learned stuff from you. Pay back time. Life is short, I’m getting older. I’m finally a patron , well you know what I mean. I been wanting to ask you some dumb or not so dumb questions for years now. Finally get my chance. I’m a slow starter so don’t hold your breath. I enjoy watching you work and listening to your ideas and or raves. I know I’ve watched this particular video at least four times and still trying to figure out if I can alter my beginners miter saw. I tend to lose focus so that’s my excuse. Gonna cut some plywood as soon as I relocate the cat in my garage. No joke, hopefully the last stray I take in for years to come. Working on it now.

Nicely done John! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

I love the constant development. Your previous zero clearance fence add-on was also very well designed.

Looks great for zero clearance and less tear out on taller pieces. I just worry about the sawdust collection. Keep us updated, I'd like to see your long term satisfaction with the new fence.

I do enjoy the ingenuity coupled with the epic music.

I love your skills and the ideas you come up with to make things for a home shop to help us wood workers have safe equipment to get the job done and save money too! Your creativity is very admirable indeed, you remind me of old wood shop teacher! Ohhhh....there's my age showing again! Hahahaha......

Looks like an approach to also improve the dust collection. My miter saw is absolutely terrible in this regard and this would really help with a few modifications.

Nice work, John and great idea with the semi-circular bridge (functional and looks good).

This new fence just screams MITRES!! It looks functional, looks very rigid, and also very eye pleasing. I would try adding vertical braces near the mitre cut slot but it would look as if it were slapped together from scraps. Your solution looks even sturdier and more elegant. Nice job!!!

Absolute Nice result on that fence and good website article. Now i'm gonna look on patreon just go see it again!👌👍

With zero clearance fence miter saw can be very precise and useful tool. I mean woodworking also, not only for rough cutting on building sites. I haven't used mine for many years, but now I have to set it up when starting do moldings to new doors and floors.

That cut at 3:30 .... Perfect!

Terrific replacement fence John, well done! Just another thing that I will have to do to my saw......

I saw the pictures on your Instagram and I loved what you made there. At the time I got the notification of this video I was very busy working on my new video (it took me more than 20 hours to edit) Now it's finally online I got some time to lean back and watch videos to relax. I like how you made the fence with the curved strengthening in the back. Oh yeah, I also like the transition you made on 3:30, You saw my video, I have a weakness for stuff like that LOL. Greetings C

Nice one John. I may just adopt your idea on my sliding compound saw. Thanks.

Looks amazing, thank you for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

John - greatly trust your ingenuity in the shop. Been looking for "space requirements" for using different machines effectively. For example: Can I get by with 6 foot infeed to my miter saw or do I need to allow almost 8 feet. Can I get by with 4 foot outfeed on my miter saw or do I need more room. A video series on what minimum clearances we need to allow would be very beneficial. Thanks for what you do for the rest of us.....

Great idea John and well filmed. Than you.

Those dividers were sweet!!!!

You videography was top notch here. A joy to watch. The fence project was also very well done.

Looks good John.

I noticed that fancy wipe you did there

Very nice John.

3:35 love keeping a tape measure in the scrapwood cabinet because you always leave the other tape measure across the room. Lufkin’s Law.

I desperately need to do this for my saw!

Nice, elegant solution.

Interesting approach to use arches at both the bottom and top. That might lend itself to easy improved dust collection as others have pointed out.

*Amazing work man* 🔥🔥

Bonsoir John, très bon travail, comme d'habitude et très bonne idée

Just what I needed John. The fence on my Evolution saw is not brilliant is will have a look and adapt this for my saw.

In one word, "Brilliant"!

More engineering goodness. You always have cool ideas.

Hey John, I really appreciate your carefree approach to working in the shop. When I built a zero clearance fence, I had to remove the dust collection boot on the blade shroud. Coupled with the high fence, I found a lot of cuttings end up in front of the fence and on me when the blade was ahead of the fence. So I removed the fence and work around the breakout on the back of the work piece. I was just wondering if you or others were having similar experiences. I know 180 degree booth enclosures are being used with some success. Cheers

I half joked in an earlier post about you making your own miter saw and here you are. Not a full saw but you're inching your way to it : ) Great video and good idea. I need to make one, mine sucks. Love the end credit music. Very cinematic.

Great work John 🤔😎

Great thanks for your videos A greeting from Spain

Great video 👍 nice looking fence 👍

Accurate work!

Dud your great... love your work

I like that fence John, I have noticed that mitre saw fences are usually too short. I too rarely use my mitre saw with the blade out of plumb, it is tall skirting boards that make it an occasional requirement !

This looks like a really nice fence. That’s a great idea making it in one piece like that. You mentioned that the dust collection isn’t that great on account of the small cut out for the blade. What if you drilled a bunch of small holes on either side of the cut out, sort of like on a downdraft table? Then you could enclose the rear part and fit a vacuum hose in there, or connect it to the existing dust collection opening back there somehow? Not sure if it would work, just a thought!

My kobalt 10 in fence was a little u shaped in the aluminum so every cut was an explosion at the end, made this today and works great thx

Good morning John. I have been considering doing about the same thing for dust collection. I figure the bottom plate in the saw don’t need to be cut through (make it thicker) leaving a closed channel, then make a fence much as you just did with the top and bottom left solid (not cut out) . Close in the back and add a vacuum port and there you have it. Thanks John! You are very creative!

I have this exact same saw. It's the previous generation Hitachi C12RSH. The thing weighs a ton. Excellent saw for the money and the sliding rails do not move backwards so I can put it right up against the wall. I picked mine up at Lowe's for $275 when they went on clearance. Question. Does your zero clearance insert allow you to make bevel cuts? Or do you have to remove it first?

Nice build, John. I had to replace the fence on my miter saw with something similar a few years ago because the cast part that served as the fence was not terribly straight. Question: does the piece that you added to reduce the flex in the fence make it more difficult to secure the fence to the base plate? It looked from the video that you came down over the fence with your ratchet wrench; I assume there is enough clearance to come around the side? Again, nice build as all your builds are.

Nice. Thumbs up.

Nice build. I have a Metabo and the fence isn't straight at all. The table is out of level a bit as well. I will be building a fence similar to yours and filing the table flat. Last time I buy Metabo, but I really wanted the zero clearance slide. Lesson learned.

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Nice

I have a question for you. I have recently found a vintage 50s craftsman table saw. 10 inch blade on the Craftsman 24 x 24 heavy square stand with casters. The factory wrench is still there. I think the original steel blade is still there. The one on it now is carbide tipped. The arbor bearings catch a little bit and you can feel the individual balls rolling around in their races. The electric motor is a 1 hp and it still has the craftsman sticker on it. It still has the original Craftsman micro adjust fence and miter gauge. The original throat plate is still there. The electric motor still runs but the shaft wobbles just a little bit on the pulley end. The top is the extra heavy duty cast-iron with steel. It also has both cast-iron extensions. Other than the fact that it has sat in a garage and surface rusted and needs to be semi-restored, do you think it’s worth purchasing and fixing it up? Thank you. Oh yeah, why would the electric motor have keyways on both ends but only have one pulley mounted on one end?

John do you think this fence you built help control the dust and direct it to the back of the saw better than the factory fence you removed in addition to the improved saw cut!

Спасибо за интересный вариант решения проблемы.

How does your dust get collected after adding this 0 clearance awesome fence? I assume most of the dust will be in the front of the fence, and you can just clean manually??? Thanks

Hey john is there a reapn why you couter sink before you pilot? I thought the pilot would help align the sink

nice!

Like it.

Just wondering 🤔 when you added the “next day changes” adding the additional top piece with the hoop, don’t you still have to saw through it? Sawing through it would take the rigidity out of it, correct? Yes? No?

That was pretty cool John. That would look great on my shitty chopsaw. It would probably double its value, lol.

Hey John, very nice. I am curious what this does for dust extraction. I feel that it would make it less effective. Of course that was not the design parameter that you were interested in, so no big deal. Perhaps it was a trade-off

Hi. I wonder why we have to make zero clearance throat? Thanks

🤔 just wondering about the next days changes. Don’t still you cut through the extra hoop at the top? With cutting it it seems an extra step taken in not needed? Yes? No?

Which is the best 12 inch sliding mitre saw for shop use only, fixed to work bench in shop ? Hitachi 12 inch ? Need accuracy, stability for mortise joint work. Don’t want to use a table saw for mortise cutting, too scared to use a table saw. Thanks

John, can I ask your opinion on Radial Arm Saws? What do you think they have drop out of popular use?

Thank you for sharing this great design, may I ask what the ‘tool’ lying on top of your table saw fence is ? Thank you

Great design thanks for sharing, may I ask what the ‘tool’ lying on top of your table saw fence is? Thank you

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John I know this isn’t a sexy build but this was an awesome build. I personally can’t imagine replacing my fence on my miter saw. But you did it and made it look easy....although I probably still won’t attempt it. Great video and very entertaining. Great job. 👍 👍

Great video!!! 👍👍👍👍👍 And are you planning to rebuilt the rest of the saw in wood? That would be nice!! 😀😀😀

Круто!

What kinda saw do u have its a beast

Nice fence design. I would suggest that you add 2 access holes into the upper support piece so you could get to the mounting bolts with your socket wrench without having to remove the upper support piece.

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That wood is going to warp in a few year.

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Мля у него струбцины самодельные! О чём ещё говорить.

I have the same Saw with a Dewalt rolling stand for sale! HMU

Нахуя????

I see this as a waste of time. I just nail two pieces of 1x4 or 6 like a half wooden miter box you know L shaped. Cut many many pieces of small trim like 1/4 round or shoe molding . I do this for a living or I use to.

I will be making this fence for our miter saw station at the production shop. I'm fucking tired of off cuts flying everywhere...