Recently (although I love my bosch) I was missing my old shop and unisaw with 60″ fence+table. I won’t be getting a cabinet saw anytime soon, so what do you do about a bigger table, or fence? I needed to make some bigger cuts, and took the screwstops on the fence out to get it to 30″, and then clamped the fence rails to the saw.–worked for then, but not a good solution.
what have you done(or purchased) to make your saw more workable?
what would you like to do?
I see there is a table to outfit a 4000 that is bigger, but i love the breakdown stand. (i move it alot)
-nordy
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A couple of strategically placed hollow core doors make for a great off-feed and table width expansion system. Easy enough to set up on horses, breakdown, carrry out, transport and store when not needed. I've seen very clever set ups with parts of doors missing so the saw nests perfectly, others just positioned nicely alongside the saw.
(love those field expedient/inexpensive type solutions)
Romania wasn't built in a day.
The jobsite tablesaws we use are Makitas, which drop into a Rousseau table/stand with its right side extension and fence, and a really handy Rousseau outfeed table, with legs, clip-fits to the back side.
Have you checked to see if Rousseau makes a pair of tables such as this for the Bosch 4000? As widely used as the Bosch is, Rousseau should have stepped up to the plate by this time.
yes, they do make one and i may check them out again.
I mostly rip trim & etc, but once in a while need a larger table.
-thanks
Yeah, I just use the top to an old cheap drafting table (melamine) as an offeed table.
I alo made the riving knife that Gary Katz suggested. Works great.
Also, I made a router table insert for the extendable table, it works great, and I made a fence that works with the saws rip fence. I got the idea from someone here at BT. I think some one posted some pictures of theirs. You can probably find it with the search tool.
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