The author opens with lamenting how he wished he had this book when he bought a table saw at a garage sale and could never get it to cut straight because it was not tuned properly. However the book fails to mention how to properly tune and align a table saw. There is plenty of information on cutting coves but nothing on more likely beginner task cutting the tapers for table legs. While this book does have value to the safe use of a table saw it is a hodgepodge collection of past tablesaw magazine articles.