Beginner here.. good to know it's okay to cut on the right side! Thanks for this video

Great video

The reason is simple and you touched on it. Leave the fence on the right and use the miter on the left. You could have added to your saw on the left, why did you add to the right? For myself I have limited space and hadn't considered letting the board off the right side, away from the furnace. I might do that but I think removing the fence may be too much of a hassle. But as you mentioned I had never even considered it. I also noticed you stored your sled in a place that doesn't exist, as far as the average saw is concerned.

@frankvucolo6249

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Thanks, Dave. You’re right. If you don’t have an easily removable fence or a 50+” extension table. Cross-cutting left is the way to go.

My thoughts exactly! Thanks for the affirmation, lol. I need a sled for cuts wider than my compound MS can handle, but not wide enough to justify straight edges or track saws. This will do the trick, thanks, and also always enjoy a bit of history. Maybe one of these days I'll figure how to put an indexable head into my Pap's old Sprunger jointer?

I didn’t realize I had been doing it wrong all these years lol. I guess it was just intuitive to me to use all that table on the right. Thanks for sharing

@frankvucolo6249

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Thanks for watching, Matt. Glad to hear there is another right sided! We can start a club - have a secret handshake.

Great topic, thoughts and ideas, Frank! Keep the content coming!

@frankvucolo6249

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Thanks Gerard There is always something brewing in my head for the next one and I do enjoy making them. So,stay tuned! Thanks for watching

Never gave it that much thought but it sure makes sense.

@frankvucolo6249

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Thanks for watching, Brandon!

@brandonwoodworkersclub4097

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@@frankvucolo6249 Love your channel. And..thanks for the sub!

I think I'm so programmed to avoid kickback by standing to the left, and being able to shut my saw off with my left knee in case the shi# hits the fan, that this would take some getting used to!

@frankvucolo6249

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Hi Vince. I think “programmed” is the key word. There is not much concern about kickback on crosscuts unless the offcut is on or near the fence and can get trapped. Esther way, though, left or right, your body is clear of that path. No right or wrong here. Just observations and preference.

I think it simpler in my mind. my dominate side is right side. so feels more comfortable with the dominate hand closest to the action.

I almost always crosscut from the right like you. I use a sled though - not a miter gauge. I use the fence to set the crosscut distance when it exceeds the capacity of the sled (with a 1-2-3 block clamped to the fence and the fence offset by 1 inch to avoid kickback).

@frankvucolo6249

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MD, we should form a society. Secret handshake and all. Good idea on the 123 block. I use a simple stand off against the fence (see mortise and tenon video) but a 123 block would work fine.

@MD-en3zm

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@@frankvucolo6249 Yep, anything with a known dimension is fine. I just like the 1-2-3 because it‘s precise and because the clamps I got from rockler go into a hole (i.e. in a sacrificial fence) or in a 1-2-3 block, so it‘s really easy.

@frankvucolo6249

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Do you put a piece of veneer or something under the block to give sawdust a place to go and not get between your work and the block? That’s why I brought my stand off block to a point and put a repeat clearance under the bottom.

@MD-en3zm

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@@frankvucolo6249 The rockler clamps can easily hold the 123 block a bit off the table if you want - but I generally don‘t need to since I am using a sled most of the time and that raises the piece above any sawdust that might be present.

Hi Frank, thought provoking as always. It's interesting how we traditionally cut from the left, but almost every mitre sled is designed to run on the right side. Also, as your pictures show, every saw has had a mitre slot on each side of the blade so clearly there was/is an expectation that folds will be using them. For old saws it can't be that people were creating sleds because of the fixed fences. I'm thinking that bevel cuts, in particular, might be a reason. Do you think it might have something to do with the placement of the on-off switch which is usually on the left side, so cutting from the left means you are not crossing in front of the blade. I suspect that is incidental more than design, though, and again, goes against the practice when using a sled. Finally, I know you were trying to make a (valid) point, but would you cut those long boards on a table saw or with a compound miter saw? I don't have a fancy mitre gauge, but even with a sled I find working long narrow boards awkward. BTW, I have to figure out how to copy that sled storage idea.

@frankvucolo6249

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Hi Simon. Yes, I regularly crosscut longer boards on the table saw. Not with a stock miter gauge - upgraded gauge or sled. I avoid the miter saw out of preference. And I think you are on to something with the right side groove accommodating bevels in certain situations, in that the blade only tilts one way. Would be interesting to look up early table saw patents and advertisements to see what they had to say!