Ideas needed on circular saw guide

[Joes Junk]

I just purchased a straight edge circular saw guide. Has anyone made any router or hand held saw guides for these. I need some ideas. I thought that it would come with some doc's with ideas. No luck.

I'm contemplating using plexi-glass since it is glue-able and I can get it locally.

Any more ideas?

Thanks

Joe's Junk Raleigh, NC

[DaveW]

Are you talking about the guides like the All-In-One's, or the Tru-Grip's? If so, they already have router plates as accessories...

Edit:
(Sorry - I just re-read your post, and you were asking about making them, not buying - haven't gone there yet)

[lkazista]

I just purchased a straight edge circular saw guide. Has anyone made any router or hand held saw guides for these. I need some ideas. I thought that it would come with some doc's with ideas. No luck.

Joe,

I have one of those $18 metal straight edge guides. I just measured over from my circular saw blade, and I know that it is exactly 1 1/2 inches to the blade, so I just set the guide 1 1/2 over from the line, smae deal with the router.

Lee

[pirinst]

The commercial plates are pretty much all

HDPE plastic. Your local plastics store should have some for pretty cheap.

You could check out a retail tool store to see what they look like/measure and decide if you are going to save time/effort by cutting one yourself.

There are three or four manufacturers that make them as mentioned above.

[messmaker]

Cutting boards are made of the same stuff. I have the Tru-Grip system and the saw plate looks just like a Wal-Mart cutting board with a lip cut in it.

[Wood_workur]

I would measure the saw blade to the side of the base, and if they are parallel, just use the saw against the guide. If they arn't, you need a guide to hug the fence, and make the blade parallel to the movement of the saw. I would have it hook over the guide. Also, make a setup block equal to the offset from the blade to the side of the circular saw, to make setup easy.