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Last night I had a few minutes and was fooling around with the saw. I actually made a pretty straight edge on this rough cut lumber. I installed the wood flooring on the rip fence the other day. I just kept it on and used that. I nailed a piece of flat metal on top of a small board with the edge hanging over. I used this edge to reference the wood florring on my rip fence and slid it through by hand. I was fairly straight although the end got messed up where I did not have one end of the metal nailed down completely and it shifted. It looked like it would work though. I was wondering if I could make something for longer boards like a piece of 2 inch flat metal with a series of holes in it to place some nails to nail it to the board. Maybe weld some round metal to it sticking up horizontally to use as handels to help slide it through.
Also, I did not have time to try using angle iron as a fence. One thing I did notice when playing with the angle iron in the garage floor is if using flat metal on top of a board as above it does not slide well against the angle iron. (Metal to metal contact). I think it would still be doable though.
I just need to get my edges as straight as possible. I may need to glue some panels for a project I would like to do for Mothers day for my mom. (A self contained small drawer that would hold knives. It has a butchers block on top of the drawer. It is in one of my books). The bottom of the drawer needs a wide board which I do not have.