Simon says...
On my old tablesaw, the insert won’t take a 3⁄4" dado stack, and the factory insert is so thin, I can’t replace it with a zeroclearance insert, so a tablesaw is probably what I’ll buy next.” I could have heard talk like that from just about any seasoned woodworker. In fact, that statement came from Simon Carlson, who has about a dozen years of experience. At life; not woodworking. See, Simon is only 13 years old. The woodworking bug bit him hard a couple of years ago when he decided to build a carpetball table (think table shuffleboard, but with billiard balls) like the one he’d played on at summer camp. That’s when he figured out “that I really like making stuff.” Turns out he’s good at it, too: His project earned…