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Yearly Archives: 2018

Portable plywood cutting table supports a full sheet of plywood — I wish I had made this plywood cutting table a long time ago. It makes quick work of breaking down a piece of plywood into more manageable sizes, especially if using a track saw. Perhaps the best feature of the table is that it is portable, allowing it to be assembled in an area with […]

Plywood Cutting Table

This entry was posted in Jigs Projects on April 21, 2018 by Bill Kovalick

Slot in bottom of track saw rail slips over the anchor block dowels — The Dewalt Track Saw has a unique advantage over other track saws: a double-sided rail – a rubber edge strip on both sides – which allows cutting along both sides of the rail. This means there’s no need to flip the track around to cut from the opposite direction and the overall life of the […]

Dewalt Track Saw Crosscut Table

This entry was posted in Jigs on March 19, 2018 by Bill Kovalick

I recently purchased a Makita track saw to help cut some panels for cabinets that I was planning to build. Before buying the saw, I read a number of online reviews and concluded that this product offered the best bang for the buck, especially if one is not a full-time carpenter/woodworker. In terms of cutting […]

My Very Brief Experience with a Makita Track Saw

This entry was posted in Reviews Tools on February 15, 2018 by Bill Kovalick

This simple router circle cutting jig was made from a piece of left-over 7/16″ PVC board that I found in the scrap bin. My impetus for building it was that I needed to cut 6″ wide holes for several corn hole game sets and I decided that the manual scroll saw approach with resultant wavy edges […]

Router Circle Cutting Jig

This entry was posted in Jigs on February 2, 2018 by Bill Kovalick