Table saws revisited

David 11 years ago

Getting fed up with hand cutting the shelving for the hi-fi. Shelves are roughly 400*500 but will need trimming down to fit the runners.

I don't want to under cut and waste a shelf, but if I cut slightly too wide then it is a real pain to accurately take a few millimetres off one edge.

Builders who did our extension had a table saw. The wood worker would cut slightly big, mark up, then trim to an accurate size. Their saw was a De Walt which flipped from a mitre saw to a table saw, but that is a bit beyond my budget.

Looking on line, the nearest thing in the £100 bracket seems to be

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which seems to get at least lukewarm reviews and no really damning ones.

Less flimsy looking is

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but that gets worse reviews.

Having read the previous thread I'm not really in the market for a rock solid used behemoth for the limited work I need to do.

About £100 worth of pissed off at the moment :-)

Cheers

Dave R

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steve.n 11 years ago

snip

use a block plane a bit more effort involved but you can put it in a drawer when you're done

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David 11 years ago

Good thought - I've tried nearly every mechanical device apart from the planer.

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Mike Clarke 11 years ago

I find that I can accurately trim off anything down to about a millimetre with a hand held circular saw and a sawboard

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stuart noble 11 years ago

+1 Cross cutting on a cheap table saw isn't much fun. Not much fun on the builder's deWalt flipover saw either come to that unless you have a load of outriggers and add-ons. I have those and its predecessor (Elu TGS), but I would still use my £30 circ saw for your job (with sawboard obviously). Spend a bit on a fine toothed TCT blade though.

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fred 11 years ago

Block plane wouldn't be my weapon of choice. Cobble up a shooting board and use a plane with a bit of heft to it.

Unless you are VERY good with a plane a block plane used free hand is not going to do a good job though I suppose it depends on how fussy you are.

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