The primary hazard with crosscut sleds is having your arms in the best way 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 option 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 hooked up to your desk noticed with slots reduce in it to permit the runners below your crosscut sled (and miter gauge) to move 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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