A look at a range of homemade table saw jigs, focusing on what improved accuracy and safety, what didn’t work out, and lessons learned from building and testing different shop-made accessories.

My first experience with a table saw involved propping up an old benchtop model on a painter’s bench. A squeeze clamp in the front kept the thing from moving forward as I pushed lumber or trim through ...

My first experience with a table saw involved propping up an old benchtop model on a painter’s bench. A squeeze clamp in the front kept the thing from moving forward as I pushed lumber or trim through ...

This saw is also impressively compact and handles everything from framing lumber to beat-up scrap wood without feeling underpowered or intimidating.