 What the heck is a really good table saw insert? Hola woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. I'm transitioning between projects here and in doing so I'm gonna change my blade and in changing your blade, you normally have to change your table saw insert. Now, I started off with this for my regular blade that came stock with my saw stop and of course it was pre-cut for width and so I didn't have any control over that and pretty much zero clearance when I'm using my regular eighth inch thickness of blade. But then next thing you know, you buy a dado stack and so then you need to order from somewhere a blank one and then you decide what width you want that dado stack slot to be and then you put on the dado stack that wide and then you raise it and it cuts itself and so if I had a really wide dado stack, I think the max here, then I'll have pretty much zero clearance as well. But when I do a smaller dado stack, then I've got way too much openings here nowhere near zero clearance. So then you say, all right, well I wanna do a little project here, one quarter, one quarter, one quarter method of making drawers and so I need a really small dado stack on here and so I need to order another table insert so that it's just perfect for that dado stack which is a quarter of an inch wide. However, maybe I next I need a half inch wide. So am I gonna keep buying these at 40 or $50 each? I think this one came from Rockler but I think it's actually the SawStop device. So here's what I discovered and it's a bigger initial investment but then after that it should be a lot less expensive. I got this from Infinity Tools. It looks to me it's a brand called Cauliflower. I'm not sure it's hard for me to read it but what it is is two pieces. There's an insert here that you can take out and replace with another one. This has been designed in this particular case of anodized aluminum so that it won't conduct electricity. At least they say it won't. And anyway, this is what's near the blade and so I'm not worried about this setting off my break on my SawStop. This one's designed, this insert design to accommodate the riving knife and then I would decide if I'm doing a thin blade or a thick one or what I'm doing. I wouldn't use this for a data stack. I would get one that has nothing in it and then raise that for my data stack because in the data stack operation you take off your riving knife. All right, so from Infinity Tools this was with sales tax and everything else, $122 and it comes with two inserts. I used, I haven't used this one yet I set this one up for my, specifically for my forest thin kerf woodworker two blade and I've set it up so it's accommodates a blade stiffener as well. When I put that thin blade in here is zero clearance and that's great. Now, and then I could have this one for a regular width blade. That would take care of my everything but my data stacks. When I go to the data stacks, again I'm just gonna order more inserts and I have four on order without the riving knife hole and Jen just cut them for that. So the beauty is I can keep getting these and setting them aside for different width of data stacks and mark them accordingly and then just pull the inserts out when I need them for that width of opening. So not gonna buy any more of these. I think this is gonna be my permanent solution that will be economical for always having the right size or the right width of throat plate. I hope you like that idea. I hope it'll save you over a lifetime of using your table saw, a lot of expense although it is a big investment upfront. Just a reminder, this video is one of our what the heck is series of videos. They're designed for beginning woodworkers and they're designed to be short. If you like them, give me a subscription. If you like this video, hit the like key and if you didn't like it, really show me that you didn't like it, go ahead and hit the thumb down twice. Always remember, you can't stop the waves but you can learn to serve. Small workshop guy, signing off. If you want to do that, that's fine. That's probably even better because you learn more about, forget that. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. Okay, let's try that again.