Building a miter sled help

[lcm1947]

I have decided to build one of these mostly for safety reasons but also for their accuracy but am wondering what the best or should say useful size would be? I'm inclined to think the bigger the better but wanted to get some opinions. What do you guys use or think is the ideal size. I don't have any one project in mind but more or less one for everything. I use "the Grr-Rippers " for small stuff and have a 12 " sliding miter saw so I'm thinking it'll mostly be for like square stuff that is too big for the miter sled and too square to cut safely on the rip fence. When I say too square for the rip fence I mean that in my opinion anything that isn't longer then wide by quite a bit isn't safe to cut against the rip fence due to kickback potential. And since we are on the subject do most use plywood for the base with just 2x4 fences? Thanks for all replies.

[lcm1947]

Hmmm. No replies. Ok, how about if I just ask what material is mostly used. Ply or MDF?

[Rayclav]

Sure, go to this http://www.leestyron.com/chesstable1.php

Ray

[RodKirby]

Here's a bunch of stuff - pop your questions after you've had a look...

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...ght=miter+sled

[WayneJ]

Check out the one Pappy just posted in this thread.

[lcm1947]

Thanks guys. Yeah Pappy's is really nice. Mine probably won't look quite that good.

[Rayclav]

You may be interested in this one also:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Paradise/2000/

Ray

[jgrobler]

This looks very handy. Thanks for sharing.