Project: "Making Small Boxes"

	A couple of weeks ago, Beth made her first frame of walnut using the CMT/Sommerfeld Junior Raised Panel set. The nice walnut frame is sitting there on a heavy piece of butternut.    I picked up the 4" X 6" X 24" piece at my local Woodcraft. It has a subtle grain that will look good when resawn. So that is what we will do next.
She starts by installing a new rip blade from CMT. This is a thin kerf blade that is mounted with a 4" stabilizer. The kerf is exactly 1/8" which makes resawing easier to compute.
	Beth finds the Incra template that she needs in the template drawer.
She slides the template into an available groove of the Incra TS III fence.
	To "zero" the Incra TSIII fence to the template, Beth has moved the fence to be just touching the big block. Once there, she locks the fence and then moves the template to be exactly under the cursor line.
The arrow is pointing to the scale that has blue marks every  6/8" (3/4").  I figure I want to end up with 1/2" thickness pieces of wood and that the kerf will be 1/8". That's  5/8". The other 1/8" is to allow for thickness sanding following the resawing.
	She marks one end so that when she cuts all the pieces, she can use the lines to put them back in the right order.
She adjusts the height of the blade so that it is just under the one-half-point of the wood. The wood is exactly 4" tall, so Beth uses the tape measure to set the height at a skosh under 2".
	Beth slowly makes the cut. You can see the cut line from the previous cut (on top — she has flipped the block and is cutting the lower cut.) If Beth has set the saw height correctly, the board will stay connected when done with the 2nd pass.    She has put into position a handy feather board that fits into the miter slot. It is positioned so that the forward most fingers are just behind the saw blade's front edge.
Beth takes a close look at her first resawn board. She likes it. The top and bottom cuts match up exactly, and there is only the slightest piece left after the cuts. She can simply push these off with finger pressure.
	About 25 minutes later, Beth has resawn all the block. The pieces are in their original order, and all the pieces are the exact same thickness.    Using the Incra TS III fence on the table saw makes all the difference.    [By the way: you can see that the fingers of the hold-down are just even with the start of the blade. That placement should be exact.]