Cutting circles on a table saw! Do you think it possible?
Cutting a circle on a table saw
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Not really, the best you could hope for is a multi facitted shape depending on how much you rotate the disc for each pass.
What sort of size and thickness is the circle, a router and simple tremmel will do it very well, bandsaw with pivot should just need sanding, even a jig saw will do a reasonable job if the work is not too thick.
Jason
What sort of size and thickness is the circle, a router and simple tremmel will do it very well, bandsaw with pivot should just need sanding, even a jig saw will do a reasonable job if the work is not too thick.
Jason
fiddly but yes
square/oblong of wood 2" bigger than the diagonal of the bit of wood you are cutting your circle from
put a screw through the centre of your circle and 2 panel pins well within the circle and the base piece
position the workpiece with points between fence and blade secure to bottom peice 12mm clear of the fence
set the fence so the blade lines up with the edge off the circle
slide the work over the blade and remove the corner
loosen panel pins with hammer/plier rotate work re pin slideto remove next high point
repeat process untill you have a round board or the bumps are small enough to sand off
ooo well jason types faster than me
square/oblong of wood 2" bigger than the diagonal of the bit of wood you are cutting your circle from
put a screw through the centre of your circle and 2 panel pins well within the circle and the base piece
position the workpiece with points between fence and blade secure to bottom peice 12mm clear of the fence
set the fence so the blade lines up with the edge off the circle
slide the work over the blade and remove the corner
loosen panel pins with hammer/plier rotate work re pin slideto remove next high point
repeat process untill you have a round board or the bumps are small enough to sand off
ooo well jason types faster than me
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yep pretty similar except
in the uk you are supposed to use push sticks in close proximity of the blade[around 200mm] thus i pinthe work to the base to hold the work firm whilst using the push sticks
it is also not a good idea unless your experienced [even then its dangerous] to push a bit of work through pivoting on one point if it rotates by even 1 degree it can bind on the blade and get ejected from the table
blimey then thermo types faster than me
Sorry fella's just testing the water to see if any came back cold with 'you are an idiot thinking you can cut a circle on a table saw' but it didn't happen. Very good answers especially about safety.
Deluks might have seen what I came across on the web. I would imagine it would need a fine tooth sawblade do do it.
TAKE A LOOK
www.woodguy.com click on the right yellow video clips box then on the TITLE of cutting a circle on a table saw. Post your comments for me to read but keep it clean.
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"Just testing the waters"..... then you post a link to someone using a table saw with no blade guard and no riving knife........ It's also a lot easier to do that trick with relatively soft 18mm MDF than it will be with 3in thick English oak. Personally I prefer the bandsaw
Scrit
Scrit
I don't really see the point of your post greengrass, where you hoping to deride somebody for making an assumption that you couldn't cut a circle with a saw really not designed for the job.
Did I miss something here.
Did I miss something here.
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