Kapex Trick

[Birdhunter]

I'm using my new Kapex far more than I thought I would. It's a lot faster to use for many cuts than setting up a jig on my Sawstop or removing a jig from the Sawstop to make a normal cut.

This morning, I needed to make a 45 degree cut on a relatively small piece of wood. I just wasn't comfortable with my fingers being so close to the blade and I couldn't think of a way to clamp the piece for the cut.

The solution was to apply double sided tape to the underside of the piece and stick it to the Kapex bed. Made the cut and removed the tape. All 10 fingers were intact and the piece was perfectly cut.

 

[skids]

I'm using my new Kapex far more than I thought I would. It's a lot faster to use for many cuts than setting up a jig on my Sawstop or removing a jig from the Sawstop to make a normal cut.

This morning, I needed to make a 45 degree cut on a relatively small piece of wood. I just wasn't comfortable with my fingers being so close to the blade and I couldn't think of a way to clamp the piece for the cut.

The solution was to apply double sided tape to the underside of the piece and stick it to the Kapex bed. Made the cut and removed the tape. All 10 fingers were intact and the piece was perfectly cut.

Haha! Nice..I am running into that now with base shoe. I have used a longer piece to hold it against the fence (perpendicular) to resolve that. Most of the time if it's short I just cut a new piece of material rather than risk a finger.

One thing I want to do it create a removable Aux fence for this thing. I don't want to put anything permanent since my projects vary so much sometimes I don't want one on there. Gary Katz had a cool rig for this I gotta google it.

 

[nclemmons]

One thing I want to do it create a removable Aux fence for this thing. I don't want to put anything permanent since my projects vary so much sometimes I don't want one on there. Gary Katz had a cool rig for this I gotta google it.

Try this - http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-how-to/make-a-auxiliary-fence-for-your-kapex/msg239406/#msg239406

neil