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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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Who has tips on making rip cuts with a circular saw?
Jun 17, 2020, 10:20 AM
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I attempted this yesterday. The board is only 8x6 and I need to take .75 inches off. I attempted this yesterday but holding a straight line didn't really work and the combination of workspace and clamps I have didn't really work for clamping the speedsquare to use as a guide.
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Re: Who has tips on making rip cuts with a circular saw?
Jun 17, 2020, 10:21 AM
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buy a table saw
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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That is in the works but not quite ready for that.
Jun 17, 2020, 10:33 AM
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I guess I could try and find one second hand, but not knowing how it was treated would make me nervous.
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directions unclear. cut own dink off
Jun 17, 2020, 10:28 AM
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sad.
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Oculus Spirit [78974]
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Hold the board real close to where you're actually cutting
Jun 17, 2020, 10:28 AM
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Like put your finger on the line so you make sure the saw doesn't go over that line.
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Oculus Spirit [78789]
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8x6 feet or inches ?***
Jun 17, 2020, 10:35 AM
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Rock Defender [52]
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Take it to Home Depot and tip the guy in the plywood aisle.
Jun 17, 2020, 10:36 AM
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Or clamp a 2x4 and ride it along that as a fence.
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that won't be any better than free hand if you are worth a
Jun 17, 2020, 10:37 AM
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darn
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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Those are roughly the dimensions.
Jun 17, 2020, 10:42 AM
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I do have a chop saw but aren't rip cuts a bit no no on those?
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Rock Defender [52]
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I’d hardly call 8” a rip cut. What’s the application?***
Jun 17, 2020, 10:48 AM
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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First, any cut with the grain is a rip.
Jun 17, 2020, 11:42 AM
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Second, this is going to be for a pretty simple bird house. I made a mistake somewhere along the line and measure for some pieces to sit on to top of the bottom piece and others to sit flush with it. Now may goal is to fix it with as little wood as possible so this doesn't turn into a $70 thing.
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Rock Defender [52]
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You’d get away with it here. The birds aren’t sticklers
Jun 17, 2020, 12:05 PM
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before issuing their CO.
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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I didn't bother to list the depth
Jun 17, 2020, 12:05 PM
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as I didn't figure that was important.
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Re: Follow-up. Did you like one better than the
Jun 17, 2020, 12:51 PM
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I like the clamp edge saw guides better, they can be used on pretty much anything and the width of the cut doesn't matter down to really narrow working material (need to have enough to clamp the fence and allow for the offset of the saw guard to the blade).
The circular saw rip fence is good, but is marked only for cuts up to 24" width (half-sheet). It has a couple inches capacity to be wider than that, but not much. And, what I found is, extended out at those wider cuts it gets a little unwieldy and drags the edge wanting to lag behind the saw. Cross-cutting a 4x8x23/32 sheet at 28 inches wasn't manageable with that fence (I used a piece of lumber as a rough cut fence then cleaned the edge on my table saw.
Ultimately I think I'm just going to build an extension to my table saw. Or maybe a cross-cut sled for working with sheet goods.
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All-TigerNet [11144]
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One other note - the long clamp edge guides are expensive
Jun 17, 2020, 12:53 PM
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Just like anything else long. You pay by the inch
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I do
Jun 17, 2020, 12:04 PM
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Get two saw horses and 2 by 6 long enough to hold your board
Place board on said 2 by 6, make mark where you need to cut
Place another board on top of the board to be cut
Make sure marks are far enough away from bottom 2 by 6
Clamp all three boards together. Make sure to add on adjustment for offset of saw
Re measure and saw with circular saw using top board as your straight line
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I’ve got one rigged up in the garage right now
Jun 17, 2020, 12:07 PM
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I’ll send you a pic of the setup in about 10 minutes if you’d like.
We’ve been using it to cut laminate flooring and my engineer FIL made the setup and it’s worked on every cut so far
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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Yes please.***
Jun 17, 2020, 12:12 PM
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Still have the same phone number?***
Jun 17, 2020, 12:13 PM
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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Yep***
Jun 17, 2020, 12:16 PM
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get your husband to do it for you.***
Jun 17, 2020, 12:05 PM
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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No thumbs of for you. And to think I was willing
Jun 17, 2020, 12:06 PM
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to Smoke and the Bandit some Hamms for you.
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CU Medallion [64837]
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You're right. That wasn't cool of me.***
Jun 17, 2020, 12:11 PM
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Oculus Spirit [78974]
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Yeah not cool dood. Who's to say Aero can't do it himself
Jun 17, 2020, 12:57 PM
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Aero, just make sure to get your husband to stand on the board to keep it steady.
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Oculus Spirit [75438]
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That's more like it.***
Jun 17, 2020, 12:59 PM
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