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Female: Mark, can you come in here and help me clean?
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Female: Hey, I can really use your help.
Mark: Oh, I wish I could honey but I have right in the middle of a huge project. Oh, men that is good fun. I guess I should probably start talking about wood working now. Welcome to episode II, the WoodWhisper video pod cast. I am the king and this is my castle. And once I am to the garage but you and I know better, this is a refuge, it is a second home and most importantly it is a breeding ground for our creativity. Unfortunately for many, it is a place where our wives insist on parking their cars, I do not understand that.
Women well ever understand your ways. Now, if you are wood workers who insist do not parking in the garage, I really have nothing to say to you. Now, I do not know about you guys but I love getting inside look in another wood worker shops, there are always seems to be some storage idea or the jigger or something that I want to copy. I cannot count the number of times I can pause during a wood working show just to see what was in the background. So before we jump in any projects, I am going to give you guys the grand tour of my shop, come on.
I do not know if any of you can see it over here but there is a little salad dressing stain on my shirt. Last night at dinner, my wife forgot to screw the cap back on but just place the cap back on the bottle and Mark shook it, trying to get a little dressing on the salad while getting dressing all over the place including my cool shirt so anyway, that is not my fault.
But at this center of the shop, the most important tool in my opinion is the table saw. You have to have a good space around the table saw if you are maneuvering eight foot sheet of plywood, you want to have that extra room. Just a couple of the features I want to show here first of all, I used a Zero Clearance Insert around the blade that is going to avoid tare-out and give you a lot more of a cleaner cut. This is just a standard thing that I keep on the table saw at all times. I also have a independent splitter, after Market(ph) Splitter that is easy, very easy to remove actually and one thing that I found is if you can remove this things and get them out of the way when you need to and it just easy to put them back, you are going to used them.
The problem is most safety thing are not really design to be easy to get on and off, in and out, and most people just do not used them and throw them to the sides so anything that you can do to avoid that is good, and I also have a Incra-miter Gauge here, awesome tool, I used that every single time when I am in the shop. Couple other things down below, dust collection. I got a 6 inch court at the bottom, I have to modify this table saw and actually had to cut it which hurt me to do it but you got to do what you are going to do.
In fact I think I want a little bit too big on that and I have actually sacrificed the quality of the dust collection but it still gets the most of this stuff so I am pretty satisfied with the result. The last thing is my Blade Guard or more accurately it is just a dust collection hood or shroud. This guy has a 2 ½ inch port here and does collect a reasonable amount of dust that is where is the above the blade so that is very pretty cool.
I also have a home made Outfeed Table, everything is just pretty much bulk from home depot for the legs here, these I actually got from a scrap metal yard. This are essentially just hinge then you can drop it, I do not want to, it is kind a pain in a butt but essentially if you are using eight foot you know sheets of plywood, these things can really save you a lot of trouble. It makes the cuts a lot saver as you push everything through the table saw.
Once it is through the blade you do not have to have some spot or some else helping you with the, you know in the end of the cut. This is going to sit right on top of the outfeed table. It is going to be nice and safe.
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