I made good progress on the table saw today. Before I began getting familiar and testing the saw, I bought a new 80-tooth blade - 4X the number on the blade that came with the saw. I need to have very fine-cut seams in order to make a furniture quality clock case. After installing the new blade, I tested the saw with some sacrificial lumber I had lying around, and then tested my ability to true-up the seasoned walnut lumber. All went well. The true-up technique calls for screwing the ends of the walnut lumber to an already "square" piece of scrap lumber, and then passing them both concurrently through the saw. Wish I had taken some photos of that process, and will in the future so you can see how it works. Once one side of the walnut is trued-up, I flipped it over and passed the walnut through again to true-up the other side. For now, the ends haven't been worked. They will be cross-cut as a last step. See the photo below of the original, previously planed, test pieces of walnut. Note the screw-holes from fastening them to the scrap pieces. Of course, these pieces will not be married together but it does show a good seam. The sides are now square and both pieces are precisely 3/4-inch. Next-up is to test "canted" corners as an option over beveled [mitered] corners. May get to that tomorrow. Also, I had meant to mention that I got a new shop-vac and, while not yet tested, I have rigged it up to the saw to collect the blast of saw-dust that comes out of the saw. Wish I could do the same with the planer. BTW, I am wearing gloves, eye and hearing protection and am following an abundance of safety precautions.
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