Harbor freight caught my eye

[ssmith1627]

I made mine wide enough that I can clamp it to the plywood sheet well out of the way of the circular saw.

Now I just need to go back and make 3 or 4 more ! A 24" version, 48", 96" etc. !

Steve

[newbie2wood]

I too prefer to use a homemade sawboard. It is a lot more rigid than some of the commerically available saw guides.

Wood magazine recently (Oct. 2005) did a comparison of several guides and found many of them to be prone to deflection in the middle. The HF model looks thin and might be prone to the same problem.
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[wreckwriter]

Wood magazine recently (Oct. 2005) did a comparison of several guides and found many of them to be prone to deflection in the middle. The HF model looks thin and might be prone to the same problem.

That's certainly been my experience. One neat little gadget I found works very well though, called "Rip Master". I got mine at Lowes but here's its home page:

http://www.choiceproductsinc.com/ripmaster.html

This thing totally kicks butt. Only problem is that its limited to 24".

[Ken Weaver]

Personally I much perfer the home made sawboard instead of these types of clamps. The sawboard is perfectly rigid, and you know exactly where the cut line is going to be. You don't have to figure out and account for how far the blade is from the edge of the sole plate on the saw.

I made my sawboard double sided. The left side is for my 110v circular saw, and the right side is for my 18v cordless circ saw.

This thing is far and away my most valuable shop jig.

http://www.rochesterwoodworkers.org/...r/Sawboard.pdf

Best thing about the one I built - cost $zip. Like Scott I made mine double sided for the same two saws. I also made one dimensioned for my routers.

[jgscott987]

That's certainly been my experience. One neat little gadget I found works very well though, called "Rip Master". I got mine at Lowes but here's its home page:

http://www.choiceproductsinc.com/ripmaster.html

This thing totally kicks butt. Only problem is that its limited to 24".

It seems like the saw would be prone to twisting using a guide like that. If the runner that slides along the edge of the board gets hung up, your cut could easily get skewed.

You haven't had any trouble with this?

[jgrobler]

There's also the guide that I saw on ebay, but the price put me off from buying it for my 18V Ryobi cordless.

http://cgi.ebay.com/eurekazone-panel...QQcmdZViewItem

I use a homemade sawboard and a sacrificial "table" - 2 sawhorses and 3 2x4s - works very well for ripping and crosscutting sheetgoods, as well as an assembly table and general purpose table, similar to the one shown by uglystick.

[gjbivin]

Thanks for that link.
Turns out that there are more articles/pics where that came from:
http://thewoodshop.20m.com/graphics/

/venkat

The HTML web page for that site is at http://thewoodshop.20m.com/

[wreckwriter]

It seems like the saw would be prone to twisting using a guide like that. If the runner that slides along the edge of the board gets hung up, your cut could easily get skewed.

You haven't had any trouble with this?

No, not yet anyway. You guide it with both hands, one on the saw of course, the other on a little thumb pad on the runner. The only issue is when you get to the end of the cut there's no guide but that's an issue with a circular saw with no attachments. Why doesn't someone make a lexan base plate?