Home made riving knife

Thank you for posting this. I’ll be following the updates on your blog. -Jack

very cool. looking forward to seeing this produced.

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Amazing design, make me one!

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Tim, Nice! Works as good as it looks. Thanks again for posting this. -Jack

I’ll want one for my Grizz 0444Z. Next week be OK?
Good work, and I think that your machining is just fine.
I was wondering when someone would come up with a retro-fit for existing saws. Am I just dreaming?
Bill

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Tim, that is one awesome effort. Having spent a lot of time with my hands and head inside a saw like that, I recognize just how briliant your design is.

Maker the install user friendly for the average woodworker and stand back because they will beat a path to your door.

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Tim, that is one awesome effort. Having spent a lot of time with my hands and head inside a saw like that, I recognize just how briliant your design is.

Maker the install user friendly for the average woodworker and stand back because they will beat a path to your door.

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Tim
Great job and great blog.
You must have a machining background. It shows.
My only criticism is your website. Can you change the black background? Sites like these are really tough on the eyes.

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Very interested, to the tune of polishing my credit card. Nicely done.

Beautiful work. Did you happen to keep track of and would you be willing to share some of the critical dimensions of the different parts. I’ve got a small mill and lathe and I’d be hard pressed to get my parts coming out that nice.

Also, do you think aluminum would work for the round bracket you milled out of that thick steel rod? I have that in aluminum so why not ask. Probably too soft for something so thin.

Thanks for all the nice comments. I do have a sketchup model of the knife. if you would like a copy of it here’s a link to it: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14006061/Riving%20Knife/Riving%20knife%20final.skp

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Hi Tim, I’m new to LJ – I was so impressed with your work on this project – it motivated me to join up! Somewhere in the text you mentioned that someone would have to modify this for a 10” Unisaw – has that been done to your knowledge? Have you ever compared the guts to know how adaptable your design is to the more common saw? I recently acquired a 1973 Guelph ON produced Rockwell Uni and would love to add your riving knife to it. Do you plan to offer this as a commercially available product?

That is very cool, nice to see someone solving the problem of adding a riving knife to older saws.

Gulf I have checked into the guts of a 10” saw and they are exactly the same (for the older unisaws anyway). They are just a little smaller. If someone has made this for a 10” machine I have not seen it yet. I have no plans to make this into a comercial product. I offer it freely to anyone who wants to make one for themselves!

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