To support my walnut slab as I push it into the blade to create the chamfer on my new coffee / side table top, I decided to make it removable, so it wouldn’t get in the way each and every time I use the table saw.
My plan was to add some 2×4 beams down the side of the workbench which could be slid in and out to the desired length and a piece of melamine scrap on top, to bring it up to the correct height, level with the table saw.
To hold each beam in place, I decided to go with a block of 2×4 above and below the extendable part, then a strip of plywood over the two blocks to hold the beams against the workbench.
As you can see in the image above, it came out pretty good.
However… I failed to measure the slab and the length of the beams before starting, as such, when I tried to cut the chamfers on the longer sides of my coffee / side table, I found there wasn’t enough support for the wood before it got to the blade.
This is going to take much more thinking to overcome.
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