When ripping narrow pieces from wide stock, I was having trouble because the opening on my tablesaw’s stock throat plate was too wide to offer good support for the resulting strips. I hadn’t yet made a zero-clearance replacement throat plate, and needed a quick fix. I ripped a piece of plastic laminate about a foot wide and crosscut it to match the front-to-back depth of my tablesaw. I used double-faced tape to affix the laminate to my tablesaw top, with its edge butted against my pre-set fence. I clamped a board to the fence to hold the laminate down as I raised the saw blade through it. After removing the hold-down, I was ready to go, with the laminate serving as a zero-clearance panel.
