Will the lumber yard do the initial cuts on the plywood sheets for you, cutting them into more manageable pieces? Home Depot and a local yard have done that for me.
I've seen suggestions to lay a sheet of plywood on the ground, on a few 2x4 studs, while using a portable saw to cut them. A steel stud can be used as a saw guide.
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The Home Depots around me usually have a sign up mentioning that they don't guarantee the accuracy of their cuts to better than +/-1/4" ... and that's using their fancy panel cutting rig! -- I can readily hit +/-1/8" using the standard "clamp a straightedge and use a handheld circular saw" approach...
I was once rather amazed to find that a 1998 Honda Civic hatchback can carry a
4'x4' sheet of plywood (on the inside of the vehicle)... although it takes a fair amount of effort to make this happen, and the driver ends up being shoved very close to the steering wheel, so it's probably not really all that horriably safe either..." snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
I agree. making a clean,square cut is critical.
Maybe a Grizzly? one of the contractor models?
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yeh, same here they have a big wall mounted saw makes perfect square and smooth cuts you'll not make anything like it at home unless you have very good tools
they'll take a $ or two per cut, or if you pay the slightly higher m^2 price you just tell them what pieces you need and they'll cut them
I've not seen anyone make cuts that looked that good with just a simple guide.
real guide rails that hold the saw in all directions like:
-Lasse
I think the Jawhorse jaws only open to about 3 ft, so you'd have to have it hold the 4 x 8 sheet on edge for the first rip cut - rather unwieldy and dangerous, I think.
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I have this one:
.. but the woodworking enthusiasts will sneer at it for sure.. aluminium table and all.. anyway, I don't think it's available any more. Under $300, IIRC, very cheap.. I mostly cut MDF and plastic with it.
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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flipper:
Instead, you will read, as promised, a short story of direct taxation in Italy.
Prior to 1863 only in the kingdoms of northern Italy there was a tax on income, about half of what listed below, in the south there was none. Taxes were collected, as in most Europe, mainly on salt, alcohol, flour, tobacco.
Three years after the reunification, in 1864, the incomes were taxed with a fixed percentage:
20% rents and interests 15% entrepreneurs 8% professionals (lawyers, architects, doctors etc.) 5% employees 4% public servants All other categories were exempted.The taxes were to repay the debt used to finance the independence wars and were due to be reduced, but, in the menawhile we started a disatrous colonial war in Ethiopia, that costed a lot of money and lives for a desolated place.
In 1916 was introduced the progressive income tax. Between the two wars, we had more colonial wars (Lybia, another shitty place) but we also reclaimed from the wetlands the coasts of Sardinia and south and west of Rome (Latina).
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That's downright *scary*.
It's *not* safe at all. No table saw is safe (there will be some argument from the SawStoppers) but that is a missing digit (or more) waiting to happen.
The key to a good table saw is the fence. A decent fence alone runs upwards of $500.
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Some cabinet makers get away without a table saw at all, with the Festool system. It really works well, but is slow to use. It's great for breaking down 4x8 sheet goods. BTW, Dewalt makes a competitive track saw but it's no cheaper and doesn't have nearly the accessories that Festool has.
Portable or not?
I have a Foremost Machinery. Taiwanese copy of a Delta 12". The thing is pretty well built, heavy cast iron (as is the Delta). Its a faithful enough copy that the Delta unifence fits it nicely. But portable, it isn't.
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I was thinking of buying some T-Slot aluminum extrusion and linear slides for the extrusion to assemble my own panel saw.
Parts here:
Of course, you may prefer to use Thompson rods :-)
RogerN
A mysterious lurker has suggested this site:
Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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They sell an inexpensive attachment for large sheets:
Bob
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Umm, a cabinet saw is not a "cheap table saw". ;-)
BTW, that's mine second from the left (Delta 36-L31X-BC50 - 3HP w/50" Biesemeyer fence). If price is no object (twice what I paid for the Unisaw):
It's fingerproof:
What makes a Thompson rod better than a plain ol' piece of shiny McMaster tube?
Thanks, Rich
Even with that attachment, is still doesn't look to me like an appropriate support for chopping up a sheet of plywood. I think you'd need 3 or 4 of them to properly support a sheet, then the clamping would close the saw kerf as you rip the sheet, causing the saw to bind, and other unpleasantness.
I think laying the sheet of plywood on some 2 x 4s, either on the ground or on a couple of simple sawhorses, or on a table, would be much easier and safer (and probably cheaper).
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Are we all girly-men here or what? I once cut up a couple of pieces of 5/8" plywood (4' x 8') with an ordinary handsaw, to make a 5' x 7' waterbed base.
Admittedly, it took more than just a minute or two, but I felt so proud!
Cheers! Rich
I have some cheap one, I haven't used it in years. I may never use it again, as I'm more risk averse than before. It likely won't kill me, but stilll ... I have a 14" bandsaw I use for as many things as I can.
If I had to get and use a table saw I'd get one with that sawstop thing, and, while always taking due care anyway, hope my fingers are enough like hotdogs...
I've never owned a table saw myself, but when I was about seven-ish and Grandpa Grise died, Dad inherited his ShopSmith.
It was really quite cool! :-)
Cheers! Rich
(and it was about three decades ago! ;-)
Cheers! Rich
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