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Routing Table Saw inserts
Oct 25, 2005
Drilling two nail-sized holes in your tablesaw insert lets you tack the insert to a rough-cut blank and pattern-rout a replacement wooden insert that’s exactly the size of the original. A flush-trim bit with a ball-bearing pilot works best for the routing. Before you start, thickness-plane the stock for the blanks to the exact depth of your insert hole. I make the inserts up by the dozen and put in a new one at each blade change.
Jeffrey P. Gyving, Point Arena, Calif.
Fine Woodworking Magazine, April 1987 No. 63
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