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In this video I'm going to be demonstrating a rip cut for you and I'm
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going to go through the cut just explaining things without actually cutting. So I'll begin by adjusting the fence. I've already adjusted it actually
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so that the the blade isn't encountering the wood. When I actually do the cut
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later in the video I'll move the fence over and complete the cut. But use
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essentially what you want to do. You adjust your fence for the width of cut
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you want and you take a look and see if the blade is the correct height. Right
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now it's a little too high. I like to have the blade about a quarter to a half
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inch above the table. Any lower and you slightly increase the chance of kickback
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not really significantly but any higher and there's more blade spinning around
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up there that might injure you. Not likely but might as well turn the tables
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in your favor. So the first step once you've got everything set up is to don
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your safety equipment and I'm going to be dropping the guard. I have my push
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stick here but like I said my cuts going to be wider than the width of my hand so
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it's better if I don't use a push stick in this case and I'm ready to go. So I'm
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going to switch on my dust collector and move the fence over a little bit so I
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can actually make a cut and then you'll see how it's done. Oh one other thing
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when you're cutting you never want to leave the wood without some kind of
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support that's either your hand or the push stick. You don't want to have the
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board in the middle of the cut and to take your hand off of it because that
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could promote kickback and also you'll notice when I finish the cut I'm going
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to keep my hand on the workpiece until it clears the blade and then I'm going
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to shut off the saw and I'm not going to do anything. I'm going to let
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that blade come to a complete stop before I go ahead and remove the wood
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So let's make some sawdust. This is a 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1.5T x 1
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So there's my cut all safely done. Now I should mention while it's important to
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keep control of the workpiece all the way through the cut and afterwards it's
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not practical or safe to try to control the offcut even when it's fairly wide
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No problem though because a piece of wood sitting here like this is not likely to be kicked back
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Well in fact it won't be. Two reasons why. The blade can't really grab it. The blade's only
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rubbing up against the side but also in my case since I'm using a splitter with the anti-kickback
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dogs that also stops the offcut from moving at all. So that's it a safe and effective rip cut
