If necessary, use a push stick to hold the board against the fence. Your left hand remains with your thumb hooked over the closest table edge never venturing towards the blade. If right handed, you guide your wood into the blade with your right hand. My main tip for keeping your digits is to use the saw like you are shooting pool. You can see that I now have 8 feet to support long boards as I rip them to size. But I will get much more into that in the coming weeks… Stay tuned. The small size of this vintage table saw is perfect for that application. What I would like to do, however, is create a small wood working setup that can be put away when not in use. My shop is designed mostly for tinkering with cars and other mechanicals and I don’t really want to change that. Turns out, he did… And what you see before you is my brand spanking new Delta Rockwell 34-600 that was originally manufactured around 1955 or so. That quote got me very interested in wood working and I quickly emailed Curtis to see if he had any table saw restorations in the works. Then, a few weeks ago, my wife got a quote to get some cabinets built for the house. I don’t do much wood working, however, and have never had a need for a finger remover. While there, I took notice of his old Delta table saw and fell in love. Years ago, I dropped by Curtis Garrett’s shop to pick up a band saw that he had restored for me.

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