Making a Straight Cut - What Am I Missing (Page 2): If your alone how do you rip a 4x8 sheet on a table saw?

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Don Fischer wrote:

Get rid of the side winder saw and get a worm drive. Then look right down on the blade and cut! Easiest way will still be a table saw!

If your alone how do you rip a 4x8 sheet on a table saw?

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In the video the big sheet was cut with a circular saw. But, the key is that the cut need not be perfect if you use the outside edge as your fence. It will be "factory square".

bobmcculloch wrote:

If your alone how do you rip a 4x8 sheet on a table saw?

Don Fischer Loc: Antelope, Ore

bobmcculloch wrote:

If your alone how do you rip a 4x8 sheet on a table saw?

Table extension's. Important to feed more from the side to keep one edge against the fence.

gse33 Loc: Southern California

This is a cutting jig I have used in production shops for years. If you have many cuts to make it is fast and fairly accurate while protecting the material from the crappy saws the shops supplied. That being said still have to store this somewhere and storage space in my shop/garage is a premium.

Ron 717 Loc: Pennsylvania

jerryc41 wrote:

I clamp a piece of wood as a guide when I want to make a long straight cut with a circular saw. Why does this guy say to attach a thin piece of wood to the guide?

http://www.familyhandyman.com/tools/circular-saws/how-to-cut-straight-with-a-circular-saw?pmcode=&_cmp=TFHContentEmail&_ebid=TFHContentEmail10/13/2015&_mid=67590&ehid=73A5119F6D6B55A335D41D8BD7D8D335A74FB2CE

First of all, if you don't use the guide as shown, you have to measure from the edge of the saw to the edge of the blade then subtract that measurement from the desired cut line and if not measured accurately then the cut will possibly be off by the width of the saw blade thickness. with the jig as shown is used the cut line will be exact every time you use the jig. You can hang the jig on the wall and use it every time you need to make an accurate cut. If you make the jig and use it the first time you will wonder how you ever worked without it. I know, I am an experienced wood worker that uses many jigs for doing accurate cuts.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Im Board.

EoS_User Loc: Oshawa, Ontario Canada

Exactly what he said. No fuss no muss, line up the thin base with the cut line and go.

SmittyOne wrote:

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bluezzzzz Loc: Stamping Ground, KY

Or, for only $750, you can use this:

http://www.cpofestool.com/festool-561438-plunge-cut-circular-saw/fesn561438,default,pd.html?ref=pla&zmam=31282435&zmas=47&zmac=727&zmap=fesn561438&gclid=CjwKEAjw-vewBRDH1-b52Lig1hkSJACTPfVFFZ0LBlgbYxyOzoSd7NoFlOQPcuLHGOiH0aLQeoKVKxoCkVPw_wcB

ab7rn Loc: Portland, Oregon

Idon't trust factory square. I have adjusted my framing square and find that often the factory edge is not square.

Erdos2 Loc: Vancouver, WA

jerryc41 wrote:

I clamp a piece of wood as a guide when I want to make a long straight cut with a circular saw. Why does this guy say to attach a thin piece of wood to the guide?

http://www.familyhandyman.com/tools/circular-saws/how-to-cut-straight-with-a-circular-saw?pmcode=&_cmp=TFHContentEmail&_ebid=TFHContentEmail10/13/2015&_mid=67590&ehid=73A5119F6D6B55A335D41D8BD7D8D335A74FB2CE

This is cool. As others mentioned, this is to make getting the straight edge saw guide lined up easily, and maybe a secondary purpose to protect the board being cut. I may make one of these this weekend.

Jerry

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

jerryc41 wrote:

But why? When I clamp a board to guide the saw, the cut will be straight. So the only advantage here is having that thin board on the line? If I start the blade on the line and have the guide board in place, my cut will be straight. That's been working for me for years.

Because the thin board acts as the thing you line up with your marks. You don't have to use a yo-yo to measure, or offset the saw or anything. It's a built in guide.

ottopj Loc: Annapolis, MD USA

jerryc41 wrote:

I clamp a piece of wood as a guide when I want to make a long straight cut with a circular saw. Why does this guy say to attach a thin piece of wood to the guide?

http://www.familyhandyman.com/tools/circular-saws/how-to-cut-straight-with-a-circular-saw?pmcode=&_cmp=TFHContentEmail&_ebid=TFHContentEmail10/13/2015&_mid=67590&ehid=73A5119F6D6B55A335D41D8BD7D8D335A74FB2CE

It's custom made so you don't have to measure how far away to keep the guide edge to your cutting mark.

I have several of these depending on which blade is in my saw.