Hi dale. You use the fence, and the pusher, which most sighted people will throw aside. I am not great with large sheets of wood, but they have roller stands, saw horses and all that which you can try as props for the wood. I have two roller stands which someone gave me. I haven't used them enough yet to tell you if they are good, but the man who gave them to me is an experienced wood turner and he gave them to me because he didn't like them. If that's any help. You use your fence, and pusher, and you learn to keep your hand away from the blade. Set up your wood, and bring it up to the blade and figure out where you are going to cut and all that before you hit the power button. Of course, don't have the wood against the blade when you power on. I am on my second table saw now and it has a nice fence which clamps onto a moving piece, so that you can roll it or push it up to where you want it, then lock it down. My first saw had a clamp on piece which was really lousy! You can experiment with the blade height. I read a good message on here about that already. I took my blade guard off, it kept flopping around, and getting pushed up, then dropping and things like that while I was cutting and it got on my nerves. I cut a hole in the first one, because it fell down over the blade in the middle of a cut. I find it easier to gage my cuts when I am setting them up if that thing is not in the way. If this is wrong of me, I am open to discussion and slapping it back on there though. My band saw was more dangerous for me, because the big table saw demands respect and the little band saw looks so easy to deal with. hahahahah, Always respect all power tools I guess! Emergency room desk people are not at all funny when you are sitting there with a cut finger trying to explain what happened. What do they know? hahahahah
Matt [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
