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i kind of have an interesting

situation here i have this piece of

plywood

and i want to take this edge off right

here

this piece of plywood is just under 36

inches this way

and right about five feet going this way

for those that need to know

i want to just cut this one strip off

the edge here i don't have a track saw

i do have one of these

sort of straight line rip jigs for one

of my cordless

uh circular saws

the issue with these

is that they wobble i have two of them i

have this one in a dewalt they both have

the same issue where the bottom plate

flexes and it moves and i want this to

be a nice finish ready cut right off the

saw i don't want to have to come back

and sand it or trim it up so that's not

going to be an option either

i could make an enormous table saw sled

the problem with the enormous table saw

sled

is i don't have anywhere to put it and

if i did find a place to put it by the

time i ever used it again it would

probably be warped and twisted and i

wouldn't want to be using it again

anyway so there's no point in doing that

one other option that i could do i have

a straight edge here and by straight

edge i just mean something with a

straight enough edge that i think it's

straight

doesn't have to be machine perfect

what we can do

is we could use double side tape on this

side

and then we could tape this on the edge

here squaring it up to one of these

edges

and leaving a little bit of an overhang

here that way the fence is going to

register against this straight edge as

opposed to this crummy edge and that's

going to trim this right off here that

does work but this piece of plywood has

a little bit of a wow to it i don't want

to use so much tape to get that bubble

out of there so we're not going to go

that route either but that does work i

will put a link to a video where i use

that on a very expensive cutting board

and it worked flawlessly

if you guys are interested

trick that i want to show you today

is going to let us

take that scrap little edge off there

the rough edge

and it would also really work for

material breakdown

my

max on my table saw here is 36 to this

side to be able to use that fence

that's not 48 right 48 is half a sheet

of a 4x8 sheet of plywood and if i want

to rip that

or cut that in half

i have to get creative on how to do that

or again i have to get down with

a circular saw on the floor and again i

don't like the cut that it leaves so

this trick would work really good for

breaking down large panels into smaller

panels

the trick itself takes just a minute to

set up but i want to go over a couple of

things first that you have to check

things you need to know before you can

do this on your saw so

let's start with the blade and the edge

of the table all right we're going to be

using the edge of the table itself to do

this now normally this isn't checked

when we checked like the blade to the

miter slots to the fence to make sure

those are all parallel we never check

this end of the table and that's because

we never use it but in this one we are

going to use this so

two things one i need to know that i

have the same measurement from here to

here and here to here i'm measuring off

one of the teeth tape measures perfectly

fine for this it's not going to matter

i have 22 and 32nd

and here

i have 22 in a 30 second so as far as

i'm concerned this is parallel enough

for me that i can actually make this

work

the second thing is the condition of

this edge right here if you have a saw

where there's a bunch of divots and

everything else right here you don't

want to use that regular edge you want

to make your own edge so fasten a ledger

to here you can drill both holes through

here and bolt this on

you can make it out of anything you can

fur it out with a couple washers to make

this parallel

but we want to make sure it's parallel

and we want to make sure that it's

relatively smooth it doesn't have to be

waxed or anything else it just needs to

be able to let a straight edge glide

across here that'll make more sense in a

second so

22 and a 30 second is what i had right

here i'm going to take that measurement

over to my plywood

all right so this is the edge i want to

knock off i'm just taking off a little

bit here so i just have this little mark

just about an eighth of an inch off of

here

i am setting up this block down here

this has nothing to do with this trick

i'm just trying to save myself a

headache

because i want to be able to run my tape

measure up here without it falling down

hopefully all right i'm going to line up

the one inch mark on my tape measure

with

that little tick that i just made right

there at about an eighth of an inch

right so one inch lined up with that we

had 22 and a 32nd i'm gonna go all the

way down to 23

and the 32nd i'm just going to make a

mark and the reason i did that it's

called burning an inch it's so that we

don't have to mess with the hook down

here to try and line this up perfectly

but if you were to line this up

you could see that i'm at 22 and at 30

seconds so

i have that distance so once again this

is the mark from where i want the blade

to cut off

this is the distance between my blade

and my edge of the table i'm going to

take my square here

and i'm just going to transfer this

right over

to the other side and i'm actually going

to draw a little x right here on the

side of the plywood that's going to tell

me where my fence needs to go so let's

throw our fence on there and we can cut

this off all right so now i have my

plywood up here this is my cut edge this

is the mark that tells me where this

fence needs to go i'm going to take my

fence

i'm going to take a square

and i'm going to line this up

right on my mark

obviously it depends on how accurate you

need this to be

i'm going to take a clamp

i want my fence

and my clamps and everything on this

side so my blade is on this side i want

all these clamps on this side we're

going to flip this over here in a second

and i don't want these clamps getting in

the way so we're going to tighten this

down

leave my square there

so that i can just double check this

before i flip it over and cut it

that is square enough for me

actually it's not we're going to tap

that back just a little tiny bit

perfect

okay now

i just want to tighten these up

because i don't want them scooting

we're going to raise the blade up high

enough to be able to cut the plywood i'm

going to flip this over and i'm going to

start running it right through the saw

and all this is going to make a ton of

sense

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so

all right so i don't know if you guys

are going to be able to see this very

well or not but this is our plywood edge

that we just cut

it's perfectly clean there's no saw

marks there's no splintering i can use

this just as intended right off the saw

this like i said a little bit of setup

but it's going to work great for you

guys especially if you have

saws that don't have a lot of capacity

to begin with

just break it up so you can do this

trick and you should be good to go