What tools do you keep by the table saw?

A crayon for marking wood. Sometimes I have a cut off I know is out of square and I’ll mark it just so I don’t pick it up some day thinking it’s square. I mark edges I want to band and boards for glue up. It just helps the flow of a kitchen. I also have a sanding block made out of an old 3X24 sanding belt. I use it to clean an edge of melamine before cutting. Push sticks. Wrench for the saw blade.

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tape measure, square, angle gauge, & pencils come to mind. I never have enough tape measures and pencils. I start with two tape measures and maybe 4 pencils and inside an hour or two, I can’t find any. So I end up retracing my steps and garthering them up for the next round, so it would be nice to get into a habit of putting them in the same place (near whatever tool I am using at the time) everytime after use, but….

Dalec

Tourniquet and cell phone.

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

my shop is so small everything is near the table saw.

-- Jim in Cushing Oklahoma

Pushstick, tape measure and pencil are in a holder attached to the front of the saw, and a height gauge and digital angle gauge are stuck to the saw body with magnets, along with the remote for the dust collector. Any tools needed for blade changes or sacrificial fence, along with blades, inserts, etc., are on a pegboard on the wall closest to the saw.

-- John, co-owner Sawdust 'n Stitches

Whats the model number of your saw ? Do you have a picture of it ? The underside of the saw you want left open for a dust collection connection.

There have been some beautiful built ins posted here to give you some ideas. I hesitate to enclose anything with belts, pulleys or gears that may need attention somewhere down the road. Instead, I hang stuff from supports or parts of the saw.

This is the left side of the saw a couple of long machine screws support the panel cutting sled

Looking in from the operators end of the saw (under the router table replacement for the wing). Miter gauge and holster, stop block attachment for rip fence, old saw/router height gauge (got one of those new Wixey digital gauges but can’t figure where to store it on the saw (yet), miter gauge extension fence and jig to check blade/miter slot alignment.

From the rite side of the saw, a shelf under the router table (extension wing replacement). Tenon Jig and sliding hold down jig. Hanging on the left is the miter gauge extension fence.

I didn’t limit myself to the underside of the saw, either. This is above the saw/router. Feather boards, thin rip jig and Wixey angle gauge (stuck to the heating vent)

Hope this gives you some ideas!

Lew

Lew you are a Lumberjock God! I have a long way to go.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.