DIY saw bench using Jigsaw - a cunning plan...

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Wanted to cut several piece of wood to make thin strips..
Hmm me thinks.. table saw needed.. but alas, no room for one in our liveaboard cruiser..

so, necessity being the mother of all inventions.. fasten de walt pro jigsaw under piece of wood.. fit adjustable side plates (wood again)
The blade now sticks up.. works a treat.. (I also use Irwin blades - never nasty horrible black n decker - you pay more for the blades but they are the mutts danglies)
Lovely straight edges and a perfect cut.

Next job is to try a power planer (I find them useless in hand use) fixed upside down as a finish planer - fix it to a 3 foot wood base and fit a guide plate.. hmmm, that might work too.

Joe
 
Not ELF n SAFETEEE - eek.. no guv.. not a worry - I got a felt pen and painted CE on it so it is very safe.

Bit difficult to type at the mo with the bandages on /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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Take care, I once planed a bit off the ends of my fingers when planing a piece of timber I was holding. Painful. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

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That hurts just reading about it /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Dont worry Spanish authorities have difficulty with joined up words and they certainlt could not belive that there was anyoe working on their own boat....unless they were famous the they would be "HOLA"
 
I lopped the end of my thumb off last weekend - silly mistake was using a table saw.
Went to knock away a bit of offcut and zipped the end 1/4" of my thumb off (1/2 nail et all).
Was surprisingly unpainfull. Felt a right plonker. Had to go and lie down for a few minutes while I waited for the stars to clear. SWMBO had never seen me so pale!
Have it bandaged up now.
Every now and again I forget that I have cut the end off and catch it on something - wow does it then hurt!

PLEASE be careful with your home made table saw!
 
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please give your exact location, as "elf n safety" wish to visit.
Take care, I once planed a bit off the ends of my fingers when planing a piece of timber I was holding. Painful. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

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you mean a bit like this?:
(not for the squeamish - hence not embedding!)
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll141/rachelandtoby/myfinger.jpg

Join the club... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Me too. Six years ago and I still have no feeling in my fingertips! I still don't know how it happened!. Not worth the risk doing what you suggest IMO.
 
I often use a hand planer upside down in my bench vise or workmate, same with a router.

NB if you use tools in this way it is a good idea to be able to switch the power at a nearby socket, instead of groping for the switch on the machine /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I used to deliver circular saws and blades to the wood working trade and saw some horrendus injurys due to saws and planer blades. Be very very careful.
 
I worked in a cabinetmakers and joinery workshop for several years - I didn't see any injuries because we were very very very careful. The only time I hurt myself was at home with a tenon saw, and I chipped a tooth with a hammer once.

Machinery isn't intrinsically more dangerous IMO, and the more "scared" you are of it, the less likely you will be casual with it. On saying that, I think that hand-wielded disc/grinding tools are probably the worst.
 
Agree that disc grinders are amongst the worst to work with, I still have the scar where one jumped and nearly took my kneecap off!

Arc welding/brazing machines need a lot of respect too - burn your eyes (welders flash) and you will be writhing with pain for quite some time even after medical treatment. Got that tee shirt - not one you go for twice! (and I was using goggles - but the wrong kind!).

The humble Stanley Knife can inflict a savage cut every bit as bad as yer power planer. I cut the top off my index finger with one - half way down the nail. I was promptly sick all over SWMBO's new carpet so sympathy was rather more lacking than expected! Stuck it back on with elastoplast, which the local A&E reckoned was OK so left it alone. Healed up 100%

As along haired yoof I also once caught my hair in an electric drill - SWMBO reckons thats why I am bald now...... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Oh the joys of DIY!
 
Without any way wishing ill will to others! it is at least comforting to know that one is not alone in ones carelessness/Stupidity...... and plaining the ends off three fingers BLOODY HURTS!...... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
Triton sell a table to convert a few hand held power tools into static machines . Maybe have a look at that and make your own version ( with gaurds in place ) ?
If you are going to use machines this way please make your own gaurds , it wont take long and it could save your fingers . All you need to do it put something over the blade bolted very tight to the riving knife . Stops a silly mistake you see .
I run my own joinery workshop and wont go near anything that will risk my fingers .
Time will tell as just like messing with boats your going to fall in so using machines i'm going to lose a few fingers but i do my best not to !
 
Lol.. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Thanks guys, I WILL be careful. always am..

Best one I ever did was here in LC, on the pontoon, welding up a new stainless rudder stop plate using my inverter sticky welder.. made a super job of the thing.. but the burning smell was grim.. when I looked, my right slipper was on fire (I tend to live in carpet slippers - even at sea).. luckilly the water was only a few feet away..!
 
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