7 Must-Have Table Saw Upgrades
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(Disclaimer: None of these products were sent to me for free. Everything was purchased with my own money and nothing included in this list is a paid promotion)
Even the best table saw can do with a few upgrades. Not just to improve functionality, but also performance and safety. When I bought my new table saw, I decided it would be a good opportunity to document the upgrades in hopes that you might also find them useful.
Stuff shown in the video:
For the aluminum extrusion:
+ 48” Aluminum Extrusion - amzn.to/35tNPHy
+ 1/4-20 Oval Nuts - amzn.to/3sHnq1D
+ 3/8” Socket Cap Bolts - amzn.to/3j92qLN
(It appears the ones I purchases are now sold out. Try these instead: amzn.to/3rurdyq Note that what you're looking for are 1/4-20 threads and a 3/8" length)
To attach sacrificial fences:
+ 1/4-20 Oval Nuts - amzn.to/3sHnq1D
+ 3/4″ Flat Head Cap Screws - amzn.to/3K7ABiN
+ Accessory basket - amzn.to/3LJs1XX
+ Hidden Drawer 3D Print File - www.printables.com/model/1944...
Zero Clearance Inserts:
+ Colliflower Zero Clearance Plate - www.colliflower-zci.com/store...
+ 4-Pack of Replaceable Inserts - www.colliflower-zci.com/store...
+ 4-Pack of Dado Inserts - www.colliflower-zci.com/store...
Stock Guides:
+ Board Buddies (a less expensive alternative to Jessem) - amzn.to/37leLtR
+ Board Buddy Track - amzn.to/3rtX0j7
+ Jessem Clear-Cut TS Stock Guides (track included) - amzn.to/3M5TcMN
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Marc, I don't think the woodworking community appreciates you enough. Thanks for teaching us over all these years.
I appreciate his work. Why?
No blaring metal music.
Great narrating voice.
Great ideas!
Totally agree. Marc still has one of the best WW channels on CZcams.
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This one of my favorite videos. My grandfather had his wood shop setup and customized to perfection. He passed away before I was old enough to absorb and appreciate everything he had done. This video not only gave me ideas but also took me back to his shop. Than you, sir.
9:15 I like how you showed the process of installing the track for the guides but then your final shot shows them attached to your 80/20 fence like I would have done it
Buying a Saw Stop for my new shop in my new house, and went searching for inserts for the saw. Found this site (for the 2nd time) and this time saved it to my shop ideas play list. Love what you did for the dust extraction system and the upgrades you made to the fence. My kids bought me a Jessem Clear-Cut TS Stock Guide for my saw and setting it up with the rail on the fence is an awesome idea, something I'm sure I'll be incorporating into my saw. Thanks again for all you do for the woodworking community.
I installed the aluminum extrusion on my fence today. I used the hardware recommended by Mark in the description. At 4:10 when he says "the bolts just barely grab the metal around the keyhole slot" he wasn't kidding.
Because of this -- combined with the difficulty of tightening the screws with a ball-head hex key -- I opted to add some washers to keep the screws from slipping out of the keyhole. A dowel with a small square of double-sided tape at the end helps feed the screws into the holes from inside the fence.
Next up, I'll be making my very own Cremona.
Thanks. THe washer and dowel trick would have saved me 5 hours of frustration had I read your comment 5 hours ago!
Thank you . Just assembled my PCS today and looking forward to many years of use and incorporating some of your ideas.
Yet another thumbs up video. No time wasting here.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Great ideas, especially the extrusion fence... Thanks a lot for the advice.
Thanks so much, I was having major heartburn about paying so much for dust collection but this solution is perfect and cost effective.
Great stuff! I have an almost identical dust collection configuration on my saw stop - works very well.
Marc, thanks for showing us just how much easier it is to use a tool when you take the time to set it up with cool stuff.
Very Professional and to the point. Great work sir.
Definitely going to add All of these Awesome tips to dress up my SawStop. Thank you as Always Marc!
Great stuff. I am grateful for your Off Kick Switch also. It saved my butt a couple of times. Also extra style point for black zip ties.
I finally splurged on the Jess Em stock guides a couple of years ago and they are fantastic! I find that I get more accurate cuts, especially when cutting plywood shelves and panels that need to be truly square.
Great suggestions once again Marc! Almost done with my Roubo! Love my Sawstop as well...going to try some of these ideas.
Great upgrades and info as usual, thanks for doing these Marc!
Awesome. I did very similar thing last year, only welded up a bracket and box tubing. Yours looks just as good ! I used a section of straight shop vac extension tube to a hose. Love the material you picked it's sturdy. Love the U-bolt idea. I am using a velcro strap to park it. AND ...I need to use your extrusion idea !
Interesting video! Like a lot of hobby woodworkers, I find the very desirable Woodpecker attachments, gadgets , etc. priced out of common sense range but you find ways to bypass the originals and save money AND make them work!! Appreciate your ingenuity. Keep it up!!
Marc, love your style and humor (squeaky toy sound!). Of all these great add-ons, what really excited me was... the organizer thing you added to the saw's wood extension side. I'm doing this to stop looking there and saying, "Oh, FFS..." I will paint it black.
Great idea with the strut Marc! Weird seeing it not made out of wood, but totally makes sense.
This is great timing cause I'm about to buy my own sawstop!!
Those upgrades to the saw stop are brilliant. I’ve often had issues with feather boards for example. I like the dust collector DIY. I’m using 2” black ABS for mine and only 2’ of corrugated tube at either end of the long skinny ABS “U” to connect to the guard and for the hookup to the 4” port
Thank you for the instructions on the extrusion face... this is the type thing that I'm always terrified of figuring out on my own as I'm always afraid I"ll mess it up and have to buy the whole thing over again!
Great tips, Marc. I especially like the Cremona reference. I still have my board buddies that I use whenever I'm ripping.
Bill
I love the Jessum guides, have them on my old saw (no riving knife) and it is a game changer in my instance.
Coincidentally I am heading to the store to buy my new saw this morning. Thanks for the great ideas.
Great video Marc, always great to see clever ways to optimize the table saw, and even better when someone presents a detailed way to do it! I have the ICS model, and also experimented with ways to improve the table top dust collection. In my experience, connecting a Festool CT26 directly to the port on the blade guard did not significantly improve dust collection as compared to the SS overarm thing...though I did change the "Y" connection at the saws 4 inch port so the airflow from the 2 inch hose was now towards the DC (Oneida V3000)... I don't have an air flow meter, so it may well be that the CT26 did provides more suction, but it did not result in enough of an improvement for me to dedicate it to the saw. Also, did I see some "dots" in the background for the "Origin" CNC machine??? If you review that, please address how it can be used (if it indeed can...) without first mastering a CAD program.. Thanks again for the video!
Sweet Marc! Will definitely check these upgrades out.
Printing the little drawer now. I'm using orange PLA to maybe help me remember it's there. Thanks for the tip!
leave a review if you like it! :P
I have had the Jessum accessory for a couple of years now and I did the attach to some 3/4 inch Baltic Birch and use 2 mag switches and it works perfectly. I am going to switch to the aluminum extrusion fence so I can add the sacrificial fences and other accessories you showed and I have a shop vac I'm not using that much and will add that to my over arm suction. thanks for the tips!
Great video and suggestions ... i have the Jessem guide, going to add the others as it makes a lots of sense, thanks for sharing productive tips.
Love my Jessem clear cut saw guides! The only complaint I have is the tires. when they get a couple of years old they start degrading, becoming gooey and collecting sawdust. New tires are a little pricey but I bit the bullet and my guides are as good as new!
Some great ideas to try with my new Sawstop, i particularity like the overhead pipe setup.
I appreciate that you didn’t just name off a bunch of off the shelf crap to make a video
Thanks for this. I was intrigued by your aluminum fence but was afraid that it would interfere with my stock guides.
Pretty nice upgrades, dude! 😃
Thanks for all the tips!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Great suggestions Marc. I quite like your metal extrusion fence face. All of them are good. I do find my dust collection really sucks (in the wrong way) when using the zero clearance plate. My Delta doesn't have an overhead port of any sort so I have tried drilling various holes in the plate to give room for air and dust. Sorta kinda works.
I love your channel (and Matt's).
Cover any holes. Like that big gapping hole at the tilt channel also a lot depends on your dust collection system and its cfm ratings and type of filter it uses.
put the extrusion on my fence and its great, i like the dust arm too
I like the cauliflower piece. Didn't know about that option. Thanks! 🤠✌
Ooooooh I like that zero clearance insert. I have not seen that before but what a great idea!. I'm going to check that out! Thank you.
Man, Todd nailed the edit. Love the American flag overlay on the drill index, etc.
I added those Jessem Clear-Cut TS guides to my tablesaw last year. BY FAR the best upgrade I've made to my table saw in a decade. They are niiiiiiiiice. I briefly tried the board buddies first, they're ok, but the Jessem is worth the price difference.
"I think I'll call it Cremona" - glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee.
Also thumbs up on the Jessem guides - great anti kick back and really help getting clean consistent cuts.
The Wood Whisperer talks to Table Saws! What a great video!!! I like all of your table saw enhancements. Also, you can use the unistrut for custom storage solution also. Would like to get your thoughts pro and cons of adding a digital measurement device to a table saw.
Hi Marc,
As usual great ideas and demonstration. I have most of those ideas on my table saw and they work superbly and safely. The Jessem's avoid me because of the cost. However, feather boards off a t-track on the top of the fence do a great job coupled with a side featherboard to hold everything down and on the fence.
Sorry, but why do so many people forget that Magswitches can be used in stacks of jigs.... you can take them out and move them around? I have a range of them for all sorts of jigs and they are a one off cost for multiple solutions.
Even the Sawstop overhead dust collection arm works great on my tablesaw.
Thanks again.
Jessem stock guides👍. Outstanding for older saws with no riving knife (or usable kickback pawls). The wheels roll only one way to counter (prevent?) kickback. Extrusion fence face is an interesting idea! Speaking of fences, a replacement fence is probably a first consideration for those older saws. Thanks for the ideas.
I bought the Colliflower inserts based on your recommendation. Solid parts and the fit really well. Jake Colliflower was very responsive to my questions too.
Nice video, good tips. Especially like the tip about adding the extrusion face to the fence.
Thanks for watching!
Nice tips, I especially like the 3rd party insert plate
If you get the Jessem guides that are intended for router tables, you could slide them right into (and out of) your aluminum extrusion face. Then you also have them to use on your router table!
Sort of. They each work a little different. It’s worth it to have the right ones.
I have both, there is a significant size difference between the router and table saw versions. The router ones definitely don’t seem beefy enough for table saw use.
@@TheFPSCENTRAL This comment is strange. Router work is much more involving than table saw work, particularly for a rip cut, so if those router guides are beefy enough for your router work, they probably are beefy enough for table saw work.
I think the only real difference is that the table saw guides allow you to extend them far away from the fence, meaning you can support much wider pieces.
You are correct, sliding on the tee track to the fence is/was a bear. Also, the design for the screws is not great! Great Video. So, I now have the tee track installed and the jessum Clear Cut guides.
Good advice. I did a similar thing with my Axiom CNC. They wanted $500 for an overhead dust collection pipe. Using 4" black PVC and a couple of toilet flanges, I made the same configuration for $76.
Thanks Marc, I have a similar aluminum fence (Woodpecker Supertrack) on my Delta T2 Fence, but havent taken advantage of too many attachments for it yet. I ordered the hardware you linked to add any sacrificial fence small, tall whatever. I can also use them on my miter gauge since it has an aluminum extrusion Powertech fence as well. The fence you linked looks awesome, I would have just purchased that. Comes in a lot of sizes. Thanks
Nice video. Along these lines, may I suggest a video comparing after-market table saw fences? I thought your miter gauge video was excellent - but I tend to get more frustrated with the out-of-box fence on my Delta contractor table saw. It's not bad per se - just fiddly!
The best upgrade for me was an upgrade from a table saw to a plunge saw with an mft table. Much less dust, easier to cut, requires less space. For me it works better for a small DIY shop
Thanks for sharing. And a happy birthday to you!
Thank you
Thanks for the upload
6:11 "Blammo" - That was a nice Blammo moment.
Full of good ideas, thanks for the insights Marc. FWIW I've been using the Colliflower insert system for a while and really like it too, except when it leaves red paint streaks on my stock, which is bothersome and not infrequent. While I have not seen any widespread reports on social media of this being a "thing", I also can't really see how it can be just me or any sort of user error. Curious to hear if you experience this.
Love my Jessem Stock guides!
I need to get that last Jessum upgrade
Nice video. My trouble is I need to replace the entire table saw first. Cheers 👍😎🇦🇺
I made me a solid surface fence for my sawstop soon after getting it, stock fence was not too flat.
The collection my friend
Is flappin' in the wind
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Informative and entertaining Marc lol
Keep it up! The OG of internet woodworking.
I used a piece of rockler track for my fence face. Same as the woodhaven, just blue. ;-)
Love your humor buddy!!
Nice upgrades! Yes, dust collection on the SawStop is exceptional when both the cabinet port and blade guard dust ports are used! And despite other prominent YT'ers saying it wouldn't work well for machines like table saws and planers, my dust collection system is powered by a large shop-vac with key fob remote control and works very well on all my machines except the chop saw.
My solution to the blade guard dust port is a mini shop-vac sitting on the extension table...for now. I've been thinking about hanging it from the ceiling to get it completely out of the way, but I rarely cut sheet goods, so it's seldom in the way. Only downside is it wouldn't be controlled by remote (it's now now either). Nice build on the DIY overarm, but I don't think I'd like any type of overarm system.
I may have to go with the aluminum fence though! I've noticed my fence isn't PERFECTLY straight, or square to the table for that matter, which was frustrating when I built a spline jig a couple weeks back.
I screwed a cabinet door handle onto the main rail endcap and I store the allen wrenches in there. A drawer would be even better!
Thanks for a great video!
Thank you. Do you have an upgrades list for a dewalt table saw?
I just used strut to hang my dust collector but I didn't think about using it for the table saw dust collection. I have a 1944 Unisaw, dust collection wasnt exactly built in... If I can find a blade guard to retrofit I'm going to do copy your idea. Thanks for the video.
My recent SawStop purchase was timed with several shop upgrades, including a bigger dust collector so I can have it piped instead of moving the dust collector around all the time. So I don't have the existing duct work problem, but I'm still struggling to decide if I should tie the top port to the main dust collection or use a shop vac. I already have one very close connected to my Kapex. I might have to figure out a way to automate switching 2 1/2" hose connections as I really want to get away from moving hoses all the time.
Love this video . . . . thanks
I enjoy every little setup tool that you name after Matt lol
Maaaan, never thought about just using my fence to attach stop block for cross cuts - my fence already has T slots too- ty sir 😎
I just bought a Harvey ALPHA saw and without any accessories other than their overhead dust collection arm. This system is one of the best I've seen and every bit as good as the one that cost 3 x as much on my FELDER Sliding Table Saw. All the fences etc are from Incra. The extension table will be a full drawer cabinet built by me that extends into a full woodworking bench. I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes out.
Thanks I just ordered the zero clearance insert. How did you fit the riving knife with it?
I may try that fence replacement too?
Woodpeckers rip flip is another great accessory to have, it lets you micro adjust your fence!
Years ago, I spray painted my bandsaw table flat black because the glare was a distraction when making small tight cuts. Btw, I make small drawers out of sheet aluminum repurposed from an old aluminum awning by bending it into a U shape and tacking in thin wood ends. Might try making a drawer for my table saw void, if I can figure out what to stored in there 🤔.
Great video, I was looking at how you mounted the Jessem guide and at 9:16 in the video it appears that the guides are mounted on the aluminum extrusion. Thanks
I just wanna say, man that painting inside a cardboard box is genius
I found a used SS Overhead Vacuum assy on CR and hook it to a separate Shop Vac which is operated automatically activated switch. It works fantastically!
Awesome vid! Marc, I see that on 9:16 time stamp you mounted the guides on the extrusion. Pros and cons than mounting on actual fence?
Mark I put my floating over arm on a Y off a single 4 inch drop. One to the cabinet and one to the overarm. On the Floating overarm I am pulling close to 600 cfm at the end of the tube.
I just got the Festool dust extractor, but it doesn’t fit into the sawstop blade guard. What connector do I need to make that happen? Thanks, love the videos!
Hey you ever think about building a custom cabinet under the wing of the saw for storage… it’s really convenient and looks awesome but I’d like to see what to come up with
Have you done a video on where to source lumber for things like books shelves, furniture, etc... just general non-construction lumber? This is what I'm having a major problem doing and it's really impacting my desire to attempt larger projects
9:04 - Some lubricant on the tap is a Real Good Ideal. For that matter, using a tap wrench and doing it by hand isn't a bad idea. I was taught to reverse the direction a bit every half-rotation or so, but that seems to have gone out of fashion.
You know how to cut metal too ? Who knew ?! 😁. Great video.
The Jessem guides are the best accessory I've ever bought for any tool. I agonized over spending the money for a long time. After using them, I am still lamenting not buying them immediately.
Hey Marc. Curious as to why you didn't reuse your VSCT fence system with your SS since you already had it. I also have a SS and was going to order one as well so how I'm wondering a bit if there is something I should know before pulling the trigger on a several hundred dollar accessory.
For my over arm dust I purchased a used whole house vacuum and connecting it to my blade guard port (Shark Guard). This coupled with the high volume port connected to the base. The entire setup is turned on & off when the saw is started. It collects most of the dust. Don't forget to run the saw dust through a mini Dust Deputy to extend the life of vac.
Funny, but I concocted a similar DIY dust collection rig for my SawStop! Saved a bit of $’s and it worked just fine.
Happy birthday Marc! Live long and prosper!
Thank you sir!
Good wholesome content right here
I've been planning to do the aluminum extrusion fence thingy since the plastic laminate started coming loose from my Biesemeyer , a little harder because it appears to be attached with self tappers, then plastic laminated
Super glue has been my answer
But that add-on is on my list
how is the aluminum fence working out? I was thinking about doing this on my SawStop as well because when using the saw gauge there is allot of variance when sliding the gauge along fence wood extrusion from beginning to end. .
The outfeed table with the black phenolic top and nice wooden border - do you have plans for that or something similar?
When drilling or tapping metal you might find cutting oil to help with the process.
So question about tapping, I have only done it on mild steal and by hand, for taping other materials like brass or aluminum is the process done different, do you need to do back turns to clear the threads?
@@janitorbob2008 I use the same process regardless of material, though if I'm tapping wood I don't use cutting oil. Slow cuts backing out to clear threads every few turns like you said. I know some are comfortable using power tools but I still just do it by hand.
Came here to say that, it was like fingernails on chalkboard to watch that.
I like all of this, very cool ideas, not sure about the name Cremona for the baby stop LOL