Thin Rip Guide Trick

[Birdhunter]

I needed to make edge trip for a box I'm making. I'm using really nice ebony so can't scrap any. I placed the wood that I need to edge up against the saw blade and then slid the rip guide up against the wood. This gives be the correct thickness for the edging. I then slide the rip guide back to just in front of the saw blade.

The nice aspect of this trick is that it's easy to reproduce the thickness without measuring.

 

[Packard]

Does your fence slide fore and aft?  You can minimize the risk of kick back (or Kick-up) by sliding your fence back to where the blade begins the cut.

Or mount a sacrificial board to your fence that ends at the point the blade begins the cut. 

I’ve never been hurt by kick back, but I ended up in the emergency room for kick-up.  Avoidable if I even knew there was something called “kick-up”.