Peter, J Maclean, Chris, Rick, Mike, Paul, Miles, Brian

Tips:

Thicknessing:

Bevel the end of a board to minimize snipe or cut the board on an angle. The snipe will be on the pointed waste end of the board then.

Table saw tune-up: 

1 Square the blade to the slot (may require shifting the table top/trunions) Test by running a piece across the blade powered on and listening to hear the ring as the wood hits the near side and then the far side. If one ring is not heard, the blade is not square with the miter slot. 

2 Square miter to the fence by running a board through the blade as a cross cut and seeing if it then abuts squarely against the fence and does so again if the piece is flipped 180 degrees over 

3 Square fence to table top. This may require that you add a wooden piece to the fence and jimmy it to get a square fit 

4 Finally square blade to table top using the tilt mechanism of your saw

Salad bowl  finish container  

Cut hardwood squares to laminate and Glue up the squares and turn to a 3 3/8 diameter cylinder and 2 inches height Drill hole in top 9/16 diameter Turn a “shelf” 2 1/2 inches

Table continued:

It is very important to mark all the members with arrows to denote proper alignment for glue up and subsequent work such as grooving.
Use arrows to point which way the member aligns.
Mark a diagonal line on top of each leg to denote which part is inside on assembly
Do the same with aprons

Cutting out the drawer opening:

Draw the outline  or the opening precisely around all four sides of the front apron
Set up a jig on table saw to cut the long side part ..see video
Use a jig to chop out the end lines precisely

Table project