Table saw throat plate splitter

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I accept no responsibility for any injuries sustained by using this design on your saw. Please make sure you take all sensible safety measures for your own saw. They are all a little bit different. For those of us who make our own throat plates, while by no means better, perhaps an easier way to get a well sized splitter on your throat plate, with a little less sanding and checking and sanding and checking, until ready and lined up :) I'm not a huge fan of the variety with plugs where you need to use a drill guide to install them. I find I just keep the same size splitter no matter what and eventually just went back to hardwood splitters until I made this. Effectively it's a 1/2inch deep squared block, 1/8" wide that site in the throat plate in a notch cut by the kerf of your saw blade. This gives you a perfect 1/8th inch wide slot to accept the perfect kerf size splitter, that is directly in line with the blade. The protruding part above the plate is a shark fin shape that also tapers back front and back, so it shouldn't snag at either end. Also 1/8" at it's widest point, that tapes off at all extremities. Splitter can be resized for thinner kerf at the slicer, and also made taller/shorter/more/less of a throat plate block depth by dropping it through the floor at the slicer. It can also be made longer, if you prefer to have the splitter much closer to the blade. I keep mine at the far edge of the throat plate, so I don't have to risk warping the plate by cutting right into it. I then trim the far end with a band saw and superglue in place. One instance where having an elephant foot on a print helps you align here as it'll hold perfectly on the underside of the plate while the superglue sets.