More about Necessary Table Saw Equipments

A table saw is the work horse of most workshops. The jobs that a table saw can handle are numerous when it’s fitted with accessories such as dado blades, tenoning jigs, etc. Listed below is some of the necessary table saw equipments:

Rip Blades: A rip blade is designed to cut with the grain of the stock.

Cross-cut Blade: A crosscut blade cuts with kerf using chisels or carbides that alternate between cutting wide left and wide right every other tooth.

Combination Blades: Combination blades are those that combine the benefits of both rip and crosscut blades, and are quite common.

Dado blades: Two types of dado blades are wobble blades & stacked dado set.

Rip fence: Table saws have a fence called rip fence used in guiding the workpiece during the process of making a rip cut.

Feather board: Feather-boards are used to keep wood against the rip fence.

Hold down: Hold downs are a vertical version of feather-boards, attached to a fence with magnets or clamps.

Miter gauge: The table has one or two grooves running from front to back, also parallel to the cutting plane of the blade known as miter gauge

Saw Dust Collector
The Dust Cutter is a practical accessory for contractor style table saws. It features three operating modes: Collector Mode, Funnel Mode, and Vacuum Mode.

Anti-Kickback Safety Rollers
These rollers rotate in a clockwise direction and will not rotate counter-clockwise preventing kickback on table saw and router tables.