Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Taunton
• DVD Release Date: February 17, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001KNH4K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,449 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

If you make furniture, the table saw is one of the cornerstone machines in your shop. Kelly Mehler, who makes some of the most beautiful furniture in America, shows you how to get the best out of this essential tool. In this video, you'll learn the differences between table saws. You'll discover how to choose the right one for your working style, set it up right the first time and adjust it so that it runs safely and efficiently. Mehler demonstrates basic table-saw techniques, including crosscutting and ripping, and how to handle special situations such as oversized and undersized stock. He also shows you how to make woodworking joints with the table saw and how to build jigs and fixtures that will make your work on the table saw easier and more accurate. The companion book to this video is The Table Saw Book. Color. 70 min.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent survey, February 7, 2000

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m.a. monahan (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Your Table Saw [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video should come with every table saw. Kelly Mehler's presentation is excellent - 70 minutes of clear, practical advice on how to set up and use your saw. He moves through the full range of topics I hoped he would cover without dragging or filler (e.g., saw set up; blade selection; cutting large, small, angled and duplicate pieces; simple jigs to aid those cuts; related shop tips). Look at the reviews of his "The Table Saw Book (A Fine Woodworking Book)" to get a better picture of what this video is about. I bought the book and like it, and paged through other books in bookstores, and I rank this video as the best first purchase.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Information, October 7, 2004

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Thomas( Doc Savage 45) (St. James, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Your Table Saw (DVD)

If you have read my other reviews you know that I have been a wood butcher for some time. Kelly is the master of the table saw. This video is for New Guys and Intermediates (Journeymen Carpenters). Kelly actually takes the saw apart and puts it back together explaining how it works. Kelly informs us and gives us his reasons as to why we should do it this way.

I am pretty good at sawing on my older model belt driven Craftsman. And for many of us that is what we can afford. Well that is why this DVD is a winner. Kelly shows us how to adapt our tool, align our tool, and use our tool, with saftey in mind at all times. I have been a yearly maintenance person, but accuracy is important in making joints and we are show how to keep our saws in tune. I will spend more time keeping my machine tuned up. Kelly also demonstrats Jigs for accuracy in cutting small to large size unwieldy pieces, as well as adapting fence rails for thoese who can't afford a more expensive fence. So as I have said previously, "Thank You" to Tauton Press for putting these video helpers on DVD. Since I don't have someone to show me well learned short cuts and improved efficiency, I read. I visualize and I practice, and I also see what I might do different or better. Old timers might be amused, but we intermediates say "Oh, Yah I could do it that way." I look forward to Taunton turning out more DVD's. I need a mentor, but this is the next best thing.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great primer on table saw features and use !, December 21, 1999

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GK (SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Your Table Saw [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Aids in understanding features prior to making purchase of a table saw. Covers every topic from tuning to 3rd party guards, care and techniques. A must for anyone new to table saws.