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FEATURE PROJECT 16 ShopNotes No. 19 Cutting Guide •HOLE LOCATION DETAIL 1 EXPLODED VIEW Sometimes a power tool seems to have a mind of its own. Take a circular saw or hand-held router for instance. Even when you clamp a straightedge to the workpiece, they often wander off course in the middle of a cut. To produce a cut with dead-on accuracy, I built a cutting guide for my circular saw and router, see photo above and on opposite page. carriage. The unique thing about this cutting guide is the circular saw (or router) mounts to a carriage that hooks onto the cutting guide Because the carriage is "captured" by the cutting guide, it's impossible to stray off the line as you slide the tool along to A unique tracking system on this cutting guide ensures straight, accurate cuts. make a cut. (Note: You'll need to build a separate carriage for each tool.) nine-footer- Since I wanted to be able to cut the full length of a sheet of plywood, the cutting guide is over 8-feet long. In fact, to support the carriage at the start and finish of a cut, it's a full 9-feet long. two sections. But storing something that long can be a hassle. So I built it in two sections — a five-foot and a four-foot section, see Exploded View. With the long section clamped in place, you can cut across the width of a full sheet of plywood. Or simply connect the two parts to cut down the CIRCULAR FENCE BASE TRAY FIVE-FOOT SECTION |
