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How To Cut Tenons for Deck Rails with a Tablesaw
comments (2) July 29th, 2011 in Blogs
Chuck Miller, special-issues editor
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Video Length: 1:51
Produced by: John Ross, Edited by Cari Delahanty
If you need to put tenons on some deck-rail balusters, you could put dowels in the end of them, or try to find a lathe, but there’s a better way.
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Tablesaw trick
This tip is from Peter Blackmore from Courtney, British Columbia. He's discovered a way to use a dado head and a scrap-wood jig to cut accurate tenons.
Build a jig with a few 2x4s and clamps
The dado head should be sandwiched between the guide rail and the fence on the other side. Two guide rails with a hole bored that is the same as the diagonal dimension of the baluster allows the baluster to be rotated through perpendicular to the blade. The fence is used as a depth stop and the distance from the fence to the dado head adjusts the length of the tenon. The height of the dado head adjusts the diameter of the tenon.
Note, the baluster should be turned the same direction as the rotation of the blade. Go slowly. And to stop tear out, wrap the end in masking tape.
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Comments (2)
Glad you like the tenon tip. It's a useful way to cut a cylindrical tenon on all kinds of workpieces. Our tipster David Kalin in Hawaii uses a much larger version of this to profile cylindrical ends on 4x4 fence posts, which he then encases in pvc pipe to thwart the termites.
Regarding the rotation of the workpiece in this video. Please have another look. I am rotating it counter clock wise--the same rotation as the dado blades. In this manner, the workpiece is rotated into the advancing teeth.
best,
Chuck
Posted: 9:23 am on August 2nd
On your nice video How to Cut Tenons for Deck Rails with a Table saw you are indicating to rotate the tenon rod the same direction as the saw rotates but the actual rotation is the opposite direction / counter clock.
Thanks
Gideon Levinson
Posted: 11:51 pm on August 1st
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