Table Saw Accessories-Top 5 Must Have Table Saw Accessories

There are many table saw accessories that you can find, make and use but the following are among the must haves. Jigs should be included but there are so many types, sizes and styles that it would be difficult to include them in a short article.

1.Safety Glasses

Safety glasses are probably one of the most important accessories to any power tool. If you use your tools for construction and are outdoors, fogged up glasses means you won't wear them. A quality pair of anti-fog safety glasses is a must. Combine these with good hearing protection and you will go a long way toward making your table saw experience safer.

2. Push Stick

A push stick with a gauge for blade height is used to keep your fingers away from the blade for added safety and helps save time when setting blade height; I keep mine on a hook right near my saw.

3. Blades

Blades are only considered an accessory because there are so many types of them.

Dado blades are stacked blades that make wide cuts or grooves like you would make with a router, on a table saw these cuts can be set up much faster.

4, Zero Clearance Inserts

Zero Clearance inserts replace the original guard around you blade. The original guard usually has space around the blade for the cut wood to pass by the blade and jam or kick back out. A zero clearance insert eliminates this space for safer cuts. It also eliminates losing small rips down into saw.

5. Pop In Splitter

Your saw has a splitter made into the guard on your saw. Unfortunatly you some times need to run your saw without the guard. The splitter is on the back side of the blade to keep wood from binding on the blade. Some splitters come with an anti-kickback pall. Some dust collection systems replace the original guard and have no splitter.

These are 5 of the better ones that no table saw user should be without.

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