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Allan Speers
07-13-2015, 2:48 PM
Jethro & Ellie May make a small table:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_qQw0MsJ4I

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If you can overlook the basic insanity of this project (making a table from a tree limb, that “had some bugs in it” no less) There is actually a very clever (if slightly dangerous) use of the tablesaw as a make-shift wide planer.

Skip to 7:35, unless you need a good laugh, in which case watch the whole thing.

Personally, if I had to plane a piece that wide, I’d use hand planes, but this is some interesting outside thinking here.


(I’m not as impressed with using a pickup truck as a vise. :eek: )

Adam Tracy
07-13-2015, 9:52 PM
i just...i...dont...know how to ... process.

actually that surface planing on the table saw seemed to be the safest application of a table saw in the entire video. I was expecting some horrific accident while ripping the wet timber down to "squares" as they put it.

I"m subscribing to that youtube, though.

paul cottingham
07-14-2015, 2:52 AM
Subscribed. Those two are hilarious.

Allan Speers
07-14-2015, 3:09 AM
She's not hard to look at, either.