Von and anyone else that doesn't have one: Another big help in the shop is the cutting guide he used in the video.( Also called a "Cutting Board") Build one that size for boards and one that's the width of a sheet of plywood/multiplex. Make the base from 1/4" ply or hardboard( 4' long and 12" deep) and fasten a "rail" on top of that piece made of 3/8-1/2" stock ( the factory edge of MDF sheet is good here to give you a nice straight edge which is important for one side of this Cutting Board. Make this strip 3" wide and 4' long. ). Mark the base at 9 and 6 inches width and mount the "rail" strip between these two marks, making sure that the straight factory edge of the "rail" is towards the wide side of the base. This will leave you 6" on the "cutting side". This should be enough width so that when you run your circular saw along the "rail" for the first time, it cuts off the excess from the base board. This is what gives you a perfectly parallel line to the "rail". This cut, and all cut's done after this using the Cutting Board should be made with the motor of your saw on the "rail" side. This gives you maximum area for your saw base plate to sit on. ( if your saws base plate is wider, from the blade to the outside edge of the base plate, on the motor side, then adjust the "rail" in further and make the base board wider, say 13 or 14".) The 3" on the other side of the rail is where you will clamp the Cutting Board to the sheet you are cross cutting. Having the clamps on this lower part, rather than on the "rail" allows more clearance between your clamps and the motor body of the saw. To use the board, just make 2 marks at each side of the sheet good, at how wide a section of the sheet good you want to cut off, clamp the Cutting Board's cut side right at the mark and run the saw along the rail. Perfectly cut. No tear out and no farting around marking a line and trying to follow it free hand or doing math to add the saw width plus the cut width, blah blah blah. Having these two Cutting Boards eliminates 90% of the use of a table saw and takes up no space and cost next to nothing to make. Just remember that the Cutting Board gets clamped at the marks and your saw blade will subtract it's width from that side of the cut. So if you can't clamp the Cutting Board on the piece you are wanting to cut off, clamp it on the other side but add the width of your blade to you marks so you get the right width. IE: if you want to cut off a 6" width of plywood and your blade takes an 1/8" cut, make your marks at 6 and 1/8". <br>I've even got a 8' 6" Cutting Board to rip the length of a full sheet. Much easier and safer than doing it on my table saw. <br>Anyhow, hope that's of some use to those that are working with sheets and need to make life easier. It's one of those job site tricks you learn on a job site, though YouTube is helping a lot to get these nice bits out to the homers. <br>Cheers,<br>BTW
, atleats if you could shiw me a closeup from the head, please?
