Like others on this forum I tend to pre-cut my sheet material then, I haul the pieces around to the basement door where I finish cutting and do assembly in the shop.
I have improved on this by getting the Makita track saw in 2010. Beyond that not much changed. In 2011 we moved from a three story town house to a single floor ranch. Most of the second half of 2011 was filled with making cabinets, drawers and the like to make better use of the space. The point here was I probably did more plywood cutting between 2011 and 2012 than I have every done in my life.
So, I was dumbstruck the other day when I was watching Wood Smith Shop and they casually mentioned a plywood cutting platform. With all the plywood I have wrestled with why didn't I think of this before. I should add that a 4X8 foot chunk of 3/4 plywood is no longer easy for me to handle. I can do it but pay for that the next day.
I had a few other projects to finish up before I got to making the cutting platform. Yesterday I began making the platform out of fir 2X4's I had laying around. I used my BT3K to saw a kerf in each 2X4 for the notch that will nest to the cross 2X4. Then on the bench with a chisel I knocked out the center plug, that worked quite well.
I drilled a hole in the center of the 4 foot pieces and used a tee nut and knob/stud to attach it to the metal saw horses I use. The ends of all the 2X4's were rounded. I am hoping that this will help keep the plywood from being marked as I tip a sheet up and slide it on the platform.
My hope was that I could make these parts interchangeable so that they could be assembled in any order.
Today I finished the project by adding a handle to the carrier and then coating everything with polyurethane.
I have improved on this by getting the Makita track saw in 2010. Beyond that not much changed. In 2011 we moved from a three story town house to a single floor ranch. Most of the second half of 2011 was filled with making cabinets, drawers and the like to make better use of the space. The point here was I probably did more plywood cutting between 2011 and 2012 than I have every done in my life.
So, I was dumbstruck the other day when I was watching Wood Smith Shop and they casually mentioned a plywood cutting platform. With all the plywood I have wrestled with why didn't I think of this before. I should add that a 4X8 foot chunk of 3/4 plywood is no longer easy for me to handle. I can do it but pay for that the next day.
I had a few other projects to finish up before I got to making the cutting platform. Yesterday I began making the platform out of fir 2X4's I had laying around. I used my BT3K to saw a kerf in each 2X4 for the notch that will nest to the cross 2X4. Then on the bench with a chisel I knocked out the center plug, that worked quite well.
I drilled a hole in the center of the 4 foot pieces and used a tee nut and knob/stud to attach it to the metal saw horses I use. The ends of all the 2X4's were rounded. I am hoping that this will help keep the plywood from being marked as I tip a sheet up and slide it on the platform.
My hope was that I could make these parts interchangeable so that they could be assembled in any order.
Today I finished the project by adding a handle to the carrier and then coating everything with polyurethane.
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