The principle hazard with crosscut sleds is having your arms in the way in which of the blade’s exit level on the entrance of the sled. Many woodworkers connect a small block or field to the again of the sled to seize the blade the place it exits. Right here’s a easy method to cease the sled from pushing thus far ahead that the blade emerges dangerously from that block or field. In case you have an outfeed desk connected to your desk noticed with slots lower in it to permit the runners underneath your crosscut sled (and miter gauge) to go over the desk, you may merely drop a stick into one of many slots to cease the sled from pushing too far ahead.
—CHRIS DURKEE, Lake Oswego, Ore.
Drawing by Dan Thornton
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