Shop Tips
Streamlined Stop Block for Cutting Multiples
Oct 25, 2005
When I had to cut hundreds of 8-in.-long blocks, I set up my radial-arm saw with an auxiliary Masonite table and a floating stop block, as shown. I slide stock (already ripped and planed to the right dimensions) in from the left and over the Masonite until it butts against the stop, and then I cut it. The block drops to the saw table, and the next piece being cut moves it under the stop and along the table. Eventually, the block will fall off the end of the table into a container.
Gothard Knutson, Fargo, N.D.
Fine Woodworking Magazine, December 1991 No. 91
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