I have just finished a new kitchen and display units for my brothers new house, not strictly woodwork but I seemed to have been railroaded into doing it, ( his daughters boyfriend who is a cabinet maker was to have done it).

He has a sawbench that was build especially for the school system by woodfast, being a multi station unit, it has no tilting arbor and one unit required to have 45° cuts on all the back sheets and sides this created a problem as the sheets needed to be held up to be cut, as the blade didn't tilt.

What I am wondering is, how could this be safe in a school? It certainly wasn't as safe as I would have liked. You can see the solution that I came up with, obviously the fence could have been wider for the bigger panels but it seemed to work well enough for the unit to go together without too many problems.

The first pic is the finished display and the rest are the setup that I used and lastly a pdf plan of the unit itself. (note that I didn't make the doors, they came from farmers doors on the goldcoast)

Thanks for looking

Robert