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RE: Living without a Miter Saw? Festool table instead? - jteneyck - 01-22-2022
(01-21-2022, 10:04 PM)MarkWells Wrote: My first choice ripping is band saw. I rip it and then clean up the edge with a hand plane.
I have also ripped with a hand saw and it's not nearly as bad as you might think, depending on the wood.
Sheet goods I don't use much, but I have found that I can hand plane the edge of plywood without too much trouble, so the same ripping and cleaning up the edge works.
Not long ago I bought a track saw. Now I can use that for sheet goods. Before I had the track saw, I would cut sheet goods with a 10 tpi crosscut hand saw. It goes pretty fast, but there's a lot of tear out on the back side.
Mark
You are more ambitious than most, including me. I can't imagine ripping and edging all of the faceframe material required to build a set of kitchen cabinets by any of those methods.
John
RE: Living without a Miter Saw? Festool table instead? - MarkWells - 01-22-2022
(01-22-2022, 03:19 PM)jteneyck Wrote: You are more ambitious than most, including me. I can't imagine ripping and edging all of the faceframe material required to build a set of kitchen cabinets by any of those methods.
This is a hobby for me. I get to choose what I work on. Building kitchen cabinets would be my last choice.
Mark
RE: Living without a Miter Saw? Festool table instead? - jteneyck - 01-22-2022
(01-22-2022, 04:22 PM)MarkWells Wrote: This is a hobby for me. I get to choose what I work on. Building kitchen cabinets would be my last choice.
Mark
You also are smarter than some of us.
John