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No table saw? Build a $15 Sawboard for your small budget project!
MovingTarget:
--- Quote from: teetu on January 01, 2006, 02:29:04 am ---For those of you who need extra clearance above the guide piece for clamps, I saw a picture of a sawboard with some routered grooves for clamps to fit into so there was 0 interference with the circular saw motor. I'll try to find this picture again and post it. I wonder if some people making their sawboards out of material that was really thick, then you would have to set the circular saw depth very deep and the motor would be very close to the sawboard guide.
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Great idea! I too made some sawboards and now I cut like a pro except my motor does hit the clamps sometimes, but I can still make a straight cut by slightly lifting the saw while still keeping the front portion of it in contact with the guide on the sawboard. Was a little nerve racking at first but I haven't screwed cuts up yet.
Now with the idea of routing out a spot for the clamps, I don't think I'll be doing any more tricks with the saw while cutting.
DrewKaree:
I'll amend these instructions sometime shortly to indicate a larger top plate to allow for the saw's motor to clear. Thanks for other tips to make it better too! :)
*edit*
instructions now amended.
MYX:
Thanks Drew,
I do not know why I didn't read this sooner. I read this last weekend and built one immediatly. I got to use it this past weekend and it was great for getting straighter cuts without all the guess work.
Now if you could come up with a device to let us measure things accuratly. :P
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: MYX on February 14, 2006, 11:52:53 am ---
Now if you could come up with a device to let us measure things accuratly. :P
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I found several things, and in multiple colors too ;)
This last one's kinda old fashioned, but for those small jobs.....
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
MYX:
Yeah, those are them!!! But I make my mark on the line, but then like gravity affects the graphite in my pencil or something because I make the cut and things seem to miraculously shift. It could have something to do with living in Georgia and magnetic fields or something. ;D
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