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Table saw. A table saw (also known as a sawbench or bench saw in England) is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (directly, by belt, by cable, or by gears). The drive mechanism is mounted below a table that provides support for the material, usually wood, being cut ...
Riving knife. A riving knife to the left of the blade on table saw. A riving knife is a safety device installed on a table saw, circular saw, or radial arm saw used for woodworking. Attached to the saw's arbor, it is fixed relative to the blade and moves with it as blade depth is adjusted. [1]
A fence is a part of many woodworking tools; it is typically used to guide or secure a workpiece while it is being sawn, planed, routed or marked. Fences play an important role for both accuracy and safety. Fences are usually straight and vertical, and made from metal, wood or plastic. [1]: 194. Most fences either remain static with the ...
Pad saw: a short narrow blade held in a wooden or metal handle (the pad); Panel saw: a lighter variety of handsaw, usually less than 61 cm (24 inches) long and having finer teeth; Plywood saw: a fine-toothed saw (to reduce tearing), for cutting plywood. Polesaw: a saw blade attached to a long handle.
Notice the Infeed and outfeed table heights relative to the high speed rotating cutting blades. A jointer or in some configurations, a jointer-planer (also known in the UK and Australia as a planer or surface planer , and sometimes also as a buzzer or flat top ) is a woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length.
2. (n.) Any tool used for drilling holes, such as a chisel used in combination with a mallet. Decay in timber caused by fungal growth, usually in a moist, stagnant, poorly ventilated atmosphere. A system used to capture wood dust from woodworking machines such as a table saw, miter saw, router, planer, or jointer.
Router (woodworking) A "D-handle" fixed-base router. The router[a] is a power tool with a flat base and a rotating blade extending past the base. The spindle may be driven by an electric motor or by a pneumatic motor. It routs (hollows out) an area in hard material, such as wood or plastic. Routers are used most often in woodworking, especially ...
Dado set. A dado set or dado blade is a type of circular saw blade, usually used with a table saw or radial arm saw, which is used to cut dadoes or grooves in woodworking. [1] There are two common kinds of dado sets, stacked dado set and wobble blade. Stacked dado set consists of two circular saw blades fixed on either side of a set of ...