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Summary: Tablesaw: Methods of Work: The Best Advice from 25 Years fro
Review: I recently purchased this book and read it cover to cover. I have a new 10 inch table saw, and I wanted a "primer" that would also allow me to grow in skill. This title fills the bill very well indeed. Not only does it offer a great number of helpful tips, designs, plans, and procedures, but it serves as a springboard for ideas unique to my own projects. For example, some of the jigs and fixtures featured in the book lend themselves well to modification by the home craftsman to suit individual needs. If you want a good reference guide that you'll not soon outgrow, I recommend this one. I'm certain that a year from now mine will be dog-eared from use. Jim Richey did a splendid job putting this book together. Furthermore, the book itself is sturdily constructed -- cleverly designed for the readership most likely to purchase it: woodworkers.
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Summary: Tablesaw: Methods of Work: The Best Advice from 25 Years fro
Review: I recently purchased this book and read it cover to cover. I have a new 10 inch table saw, and I wanted a "primer" that would also allow me to grow in skill. This title fills the bill very well indeed. Not only does it offer a great number of helpful tips, designs, plans, and procedures, but it serves as a springboard for ideas unique to my own projects. For example, some of the jigs and fixtures featured in the book lend themselves well to modification by the home craftsman to suit individual needs. If you want a good reference guide that you'll not soon outgrow, I recommend this one. I'm certain that a year from now mine will be dog-eared from use. Jim Richey did a splendid job putting this book together. Furthermore, the book itself is sturdily constructed -- cleverly designed for the readership most likely to purchase it: woodworkers.
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Summary: Moderately Skilled Woodworker (still improving)
Review: Like all four books of the "Methods of Work" series; this book covers a lot of material in a no nonsense style that has all the detail MOST people need. It is not one of those books that has a lot "pretty color photographs" but relys on providing a a lot good information as simply as possible with excellent line drawings to illustrate the points. It covers all the aspects of the proper setup of your tablesaw which is or at least should be 50% what you need to know about with any tablesaw. Safety is emphasized in every aspect of preparing and using your tablesaw. Various jigs, many aspects of joinery, and general problem solving techniques are covered by examples. The book is written as a compendium of tips, best practices, and/or lessons learned by Fine Woodworking readers. The end result, and the strength of this book, is that you get a thousand years of woodworking experience with a tablesaw edited in such a way that you have a great book on almost all the ways you would ever use a tablesaw.
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Summary: Moderately Skilled Woodworker (still improving)
Review: Like all four books of the "Methods of Work" series; this book covers a lot of material in a no nonsense style that has all the detail MOST people need. It is not one of those books that has a lot "pretty color photographs" but relys on providing a a lot good information as simply as possible with excellent line drawings to illustrate the points. It covers all the aspects of the proper setup of your tablesaw which is or at least should be 50% what you need to know about with any tablesaw. Safety is emphasized in every aspect of preparing and using your tablesaw. Various jigs, many aspects of joinery, and general problem solving techniques are covered by examples. The book is written as a compendium of tips, best practices, and/or lessons learned by Fine Woodworking readers. The end result, and the strength of this book, is that you get a thousand years of woodworking experience with a tablesaw edited in such a way that you have a great book on almost all the ways you would ever use a tablesaw.
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Summary: The best tablesaw tips from 25 years of Fine Woodworking
Review: Tablesaw Methods of Work provides hundreds of jigs, fixtures, setups, and methods to improve your woodworking and make using a tablesaw safer and easier. It's all from Fine Woodworking's Methods of Work column, the premier forum for woodworkers to share their best tips. You'll learn about: setup and maintenance
mobile bases, dollies, and movers
outfeed tables and roller supports
rip fence and miter gauge improvements
jigs and techniques for joinery
raising panels and shaping.
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Summary: An absolute must for jigs and safety
Review: Without a doubt one of the best books on Table Saw jigs. Many of the others I looked at had USELESS projects that went along with them....just filler. This book has NO FILLER, just great tips!! I constantly reference this book whenever doing a new type of cut, to see what time saving (and safer) way I could perform the task at hand. GET IT!!!
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