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Last Summer I had the pleasure of working on a project in my old shop, Espenet Studios, with my old shopmate, Arthur Espenet Carpenter III in Bolinas, CA. That is right; his name is Art Carpenter. He goes by Tripp. Tripp’s father, also named Art Carpenter, founded the Baulines Craft Guild which is the organization that enabled me to train as a traditional woodworking apprentice. (I’ll talk more about my teacher, Michael Cullen, and my apprenticeship in a later blog.) Stick with me here… We are going to my old shop located along the Bolinas Lagoon which is 7 miles as the crow flies north of the Golden Gate Bridge at the end of June 2014.
It is more magical than it sounds. The Lagoon is actually a bird sanctuary where hundreds of thousands of birds migrate through every year and seals sunbathe daily. You have to travel over or around a mountain (Mt. Tamalpais) and past a Coastal Redwood forest to get here. There is surfing. There is crab season. This place is located about an hour away from some of the best vineyards in the world. Alice Waters goes out to this town to buy produce because it is the best, and the farm stand is the only 24 hour store around. The Pt. Reyes National Sea Shore butts up to the town’s beach.
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Read Full Article – http://goo.gl/ty5Ljd 5 minute video in which we give the basic best practices for using a table saw for beginners and people new to wo…
One more safety rule: never stand in front of the blade when making a rip
cut because sometimes the pieces get thrown backwards.
You blew any chance of respect when you used a tape measure to check that
your blade was parallel to your miter slot. You made me laugh when you
mentioned using a good push stick while holding a crappy, non-gripping,
flimsy piece of thin plywood. I realize that you’re trying to make money
off of YouTube hits with your option to add ads, but you really shouldn’t
be trying to teach beginners how to operate machinery when you’re obviously
not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. Not trying to be mean,
but an unsuspecting person might think you know what you’re talking about
and get hurt.
How fid you make e your dust catch on your planer
thanks, it seems not so scary to use it after all if you apply proper
technique. thanks for the tip.
I just subscribed:) Many of the videos I watched don’t mention hearing
protection. I’m glad that you did. I don’t want to hurt my hearing. Nice
video man.
These 5 min beginner videos are an excellent idea Colin!
Just picked up a Bosch 4100 jobsite table saw and really like it. Thank you
for the video. I like the way you present. I have a question about cutting
larger pieces. How do you support say a full sheet of bead board?
Thanks again.
Thank you for this useful video. A new sub here :)
As a woodworker my self For a rip cut solid wood you always want your blade
on the highest possible because then your blade is pushing de wood
downwards and not in the direction of your self. And for a cross cut you
want your blade 1 tooth above your wood for a clean cut, if necessary a
sacrificial piece of wood behind it for a clean cut
Your saw looks great. I’d do far more wood working if I didn’t have a
cheap table saw. It requires 5 minutes to align the fence properly, as it
doesn’t hold it’s position well from from to rear, which becomes
exhausting. In conjunction, the fence is a bit twisted near the rear,
which makes it more dangerous. It’s sad dangerous and cheap table saws
like mine can even be sold. I tend to use my circular saw wherever
possible.
if you have a riving knife there is no need for kick back pawls
Thank you!
As someone just getting in to Woodworking, I really appreciate this video –
succinct, well paced, well produced and informative. Looking forward to
seeing more of what you’ve got.
using a riving knife prevents kickback to 99%!!!!!!!! cutting without a
riving knife is stupid!!!!
Thnx Colin. Even if you’re working a little longer with a tablesaw, it
still is good to be reminded every now and again.. and again!
That’s a neat blade rack you made, been doing this a long time and haven’t
seen one quite like it. Thanks for the idea!
Good tips
Excellent video and thank you very much for the explanation.
This was really useful, thanks a lot!
Excellent… Thank you, so much!
Excellent – gave me a lot of reassurance before even unboxing my table saw.
My fingers thank you
This is our first in a series of videos for all our beginner woodworker
subscribers – next week we do another build, a St Patrick’s Day surprise
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I`m a beginner and am setting up a nice old table saw as we speak…thanks
Colin .
Steve
This is our first in a series of videos for all our beginner woodworker
subscribers – next week we do another build, a St Patrick’s Day surprise
…
Thanks for creating this channel. Lots of good information for a novice
woodworker.