Making a crosscut sled with scraps from around my woodshop.

In this video, I'm going to show you how I made this crosscut sled with adjustable stop on a T-track for your table saw. All right, so I'm going to set my table saw fence to 20 inches just to get that main piece cut and broke out so that way I can rip my smaller pieces for the front and the back of that sled. I'm going to set my fence on set. All right, now we are going to laminate these two pieces here together to go with heavy steel glue. I forgot I have this 2x4 that I built up for my workbench, so I'm going to run this through the jointer to make sure that this edge is dead flat, and I'm going to use this as my back piece on the sled. This edge is jointed. I know that that's dead flat. I am going to attach this piece here, and since this is the back, we're not worried about this being square to the blade, so we're just going to go ahead and attach this. So I'm going to set up the sled where I want it so that it doesn't hit any of the screws that I put in, but right here is a good spot because I'm not going to put any screws. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to slide my fence over to that square and lock it in place so I remember this is where I want it. All right, and then I happen to have a couple of these runners. If you don't, 3 1⁄4 inch plywood, and then these are like a little under 1⁄2 inch thick, so there's a little bit of a lip there, so they're reset down just a little bit, so that way when I attach it, it'll come up a little bit and it won't be right on the ground of the miter slots themselves. But I have a couple of washers here. I'm going to set them in here. I'm going to set my strip in so it raises it up just a little bit. I hope that this one catches. All I have to do is try it. And then I'm going to put a little bit of super glue on here, try not to get it on my table saw, and I did. I think there's a paste wax that's on here, so I did that. Too soon. Doesn't affect it. Press down. All right, so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to pre-drill a little hole right here, drop this screw in, and that will hold it in place so I can flip it over and then attach the screws from the underside. Countersink our holes. Put our screw in here. A little more paste wax on these. I shouldn't be rubbing on anything, but I'm going to put some on there just to be sure. Lay it on nice and smooth. So now that we have our front fence all glued up, we're going to clean up one side here of the jointer, and then we will cut the other side on the table saw. So I did wipe away the excess glue on one side as much as I could, so that way I wasn't running heated glue to the jointer. I will cut this off at the table saw. All right, I'm going to set my fence to six inches, because that's the smallest end on this that I have. So I'll rip it through, and then I will have it all square. I just glued this yesterday, and it's cold, and I'm going to run my saw with the brake off. So now I'm going to mark, I already did, just put some pencil marks, actually, whatever you want to remember. This is my jointed side, so this is the side that I'm going to want to go flat, straight down onto my crosscut saw. All right, now I'm going to measure for where I want my T-track to go. Three and a half inches. A little pencil mark. Do the same down here. Three and a half inches. And then I believe this is about a half inch, so we're going to go down about a half inch into this. And I have another little piece of track that I'm going to put on the end. It's going to be a little weird. It's going to be this color and then blue, but it'll be all right. And then what I'm going to do now is I'm going to set my blade to about a half an inch. And then I know that I want my first cut to be three and a half inches from the side that we jointed. So I'm going to set my distance at three and a half inches. And then we are going to run this through until we have our three quarter inch block cut. So I got the groove cut here. So now we're going to attach this to the sled. Actually, what I'm going to do here first is I'm going to set up this piece here so I know where to counter-tank my holes. So I'm going to put this here, track the line. It doesn't need to be perfect, just so you have a rough idea of where to put your screw hole. So actually, what I'm going to do here first is I'm going to put one screw in the end here and then this one is going to be like my anchoring point. So that way I can make the adjustment to where I need it. All right, so that's locked in. All right, now we're going to take our square here, move that here to make sure that it is square. Not moving too much. Lock in a screw right here that's closed. I'm going to do the top of the other one. And put that on. All right, I'm just using some inch-long wood screws. All right, and then the last thing that we need to make here, which, sorry, this is a little out of order because I thought I filmed this and I did not, are these little stops that will slide in the T-track. I'm just using a cut-off piece of plywood. This is three-quarter inch plywood. We're going to cut a little dado into it. Slide this piece in. And I'm just going to use a little Starbond because it's instant adhesive. All right, lock that in place. I'll just cut it off. Get it about center. And then your T-nut slides right in there. Put your knob on. All right, I have this little elk cut-off that I cut miters on. I thought that would be cool. I'm just going to center it. I don't know how many lines I know. And then I'm just going to put some tape on the other side. And spray. And then that will act as a little safeguard for the blade. And also to remind me that that's where it's at.