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Modification to sawboard - Add a track
« on: March 02, 2006, 12:10:32 am »
To anyone who hasn't read the thread in project announcements regarding the $15 sawboard, go read it now.

The sawboard has quickly become one of my favorite tools, but I've had bad experiences with it. I have a tendency to let the saw pull away from the fence and ruin the board. A stupid mistake, I know, but still one that I make. So, it was either create a solution or buy one for $50 to $100. Or course, I built one. I've not seen anyone else add something like this, so it is my own design.

This version of the sawboard is not quite as easy to make as the original one; it is not something you can make on a job site and throw away at the end. It does give a good cut though and retains the sawboard's key feature of being able to line-up the cut to the board's edge.

I won't go into too much detail on how I actually built it, since it is not that much different than the original. The pictures and drawing should be enough to give you an idea.

The sled could have been made much easier if my saw shoe had bolt holes in it. Since it didn't, I just surrounded it with the angle aluminum.

BTW, I know there are several, easier ways to accomplish the same thing. One thing that can be done is to make the board wide enough that you can add a fence to the other side. I didn't like this idea though since it wouldn't be quite as easy to line up the cut with board on both sides.
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Re: Modification to sawboard - Add a track
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2006, 12:12:51 am »
cool mod. I had the same problem.

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Re: Modification to sawboard - Add a track
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2006, 12:36:04 am »
I have a tendency to let the saw pull away from the fence and ruin the board.

Make sure you clamp the sawboard to the GOOD piece of wood.
Then, if your saw walks a bit on you, you can still touch up the cut with a second pass.

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Re: Modification to sawboard - Add a track
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2006, 12:42:21 am »
Yeah, I figured that out after the first couple times it happened (it has happened far too many times). It seems like it makes the cut kind of dirty though when you take it in multiple passes. I just didn't want to mess with it anymore.
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Re: Modification to sawboard - Add a track
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2006, 03:34:01 am »
Why don't you push your saw against the upper section of the sawboard, as if you were pushing diagonally (straight ahead AND at the side of the saw guide?  That's the entire concept behind building the thing, not letting the saw run along the sawboard.  Any grain or just lack of attention can cause what you're speaking of. 
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Re: Modification to sawboard - Add a track
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2006, 03:39:40 am »
Because the possibility of error still exists if I do that. If it's not clamped enough, the board will move. If you push sideways too much, the saw will tilt up and create an angled cut (has happened to me before).

Maybe I am just sawboard illiterate, but I have had some bad experiences with it. I love it when it works, unfortunately it occasionally screws everything up too. This solution seems to suit me fine.
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Re: Modification to sawboard - Add a track
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2006, 06:10:10 am »
Very neat tip !! Thanks!!

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