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No table saw? Build a $15 Sawboard for your small budget project!
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on October 01, 2005, 01:36:44 pm --- If you have to have your cut INCLUDE your pencil line, you'll need to place the sawboard ON that line so that it is not visible.
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Thats why I use this:
Seriously, I made my sawboard today, and quickly fell in love with it. Helping an relative make a DDR cabinet, and the quality of my circular saw work went up a notch or two with this.
Thanks!
Bones:
Wow. Drew got a sticky.
SirPoonga:
This is a cool idea.
I just wanted to comment that you can get saw fences (the guide, long straight edge) from hardware stores.
Also watch garage sales and auctions for used table saws and such. My dad got an old 1/2hp small table saw for $12 at an auction. It's great for doing small stuff, but not a cabinet.
I take it the saw board is so you don't scratch surface of the material you are cutting. For an arcade that isn't that big of a deal, it's usually plywood or mdf that is being cut. So just getting some clamps and a fence from your local hardware store would be sufficient.
That's all I used. I went to someone that had a large table saw to cut down the 4x8 sheets of mdf. Otherwise I just used a fence and circular saw, or my dad's small table saw.
mr.Curmudgeon:
BUSH WON!!!! SAWBOARDS ARE FOR COMMIES!!!!
mrC
"Wherever Drew goes, the awful stink of EE will follow!"
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on October 19, 2005, 11:53:19 am ---
I take it the saw board is so you don't scratch surface of the material you are cutting.
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No, not at all. I thought I said it somewhere up there, but even I can't be troubled to read what I write ;D
The sawboard is to remove any guesswork from the equation when cutting your material.
Normally you'll have to measure the offset of the side of the shoe on your saw. To use your fence, you'll have to measure your line, and then using the offset measurement of your saw, place your fence that far away from the line, and THEN make your cut (and I have yet to see a saw that has the blade perfectly on the exact edge of the shoe).
With a sawboard, you simply place the edge of the sawboard on your cut line, and run the saw down the sawboard. No guesswork, no nothing. Just clamp it on there and your offset is automagically accounted for. The shoe rides right along the factory edge each time, therefore the edge will always be the cut line
Hopefully these pics will explain what my words might not be doing so much goodly worky worky at on the day after yesterday ;)
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