Featherboard; To Make A Push Block - Craftsman 113.234701 Owner's Manual

Cutting Aides
To make a push block:
1. Use one piece of 3/4"plywood and one
piece of 3/8"plywood.
2. Cut the 3/4" plywood to 10" by 5".
3. Cut a triangular piece off each of two
corners by marking with a pencil in and
down 1!/4"from the corners and cutting
along the diagonal formed by joining
the points.
4. Cut the 3/8"plywood to 10" by 5v'8".
5. Cut out an 8" by 3/8"notch from the
10" side of the 3/8"plywood.
6. Glue the 3/4"plywood on top of the 3/8"
plywood so that their 10" sides are
square.
7. From notch cut out in step 5, cut a
piece of 3" plywood to 2", and glue it to
underside of the a!8"plywood, in line
with edge that sticks out. Do not use
nails because if you accidently cut into
push block with saw blade, nails will
dull blade.
8. Lay the push block on top of auxiliary
fence-to make sure their widths match
exactly, and are each 43/4".
Featherboard
Use a featherboard during ripping to
help keep the workpiece against the
fence. Clamp the featherboard to the
front table, so that the angled edge of
the featherboard is against the
workpiece on the infeed side of the
blade. Do not clamp the featherboard
against the cut off part (outfeed side) of
the workpieee. If clamped to the outfeed
side, the featherboard can squeeze the
5
3/8" Plywood
3/4" Plywood
10
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_, II 3/8
3/8 "" '
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1-1/4"
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