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Cutlery said:
No. That sounds like it takes up even more room than a jointer!

This is the kinda shit I'm working with (I know, been awhile since we talked about this project...working nights fucked up my whole life for a year).

A 1/2in endmill bit sped this process up A LOT. Some of this stuff is gonna be useable as slabs, but some of it is bowed/cupped to the point where I'd be hogging off so much material it's not worth it, and might as well just cut it down, use it for table legs, or drawer faces and shit.

I really can't see any issues with running this shit thru a table saw on a sled, getting a square edge, then ripping off that square edge, but that's why I'm asking here, to see how sound my logic is.View attachment 588649
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Sled is fine. It's just more difficult for long pieces of wood. Track saw is great, but you don't own one. Make a cheap jointing sled and be careful.

Technically you can joint using your flattening jig, if you have a long enough router bit. Just fix the L/R position of the router by screwing in stop blocks and run the router longwise down the board. Take several passes and it will be fine.
 
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Finished the top.

I'm kinda meh on this one/this style. I don't think there was really a good way to show contours for this specific area of the world otherwise, but whatever
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Sled is fine. It's just more difficult for long pieces of wood. Track saw is great, but you don't own one. Make a cheap jointing sled and be careful.

Technically you can joint using your flattening jig, if you have a long enough router bit. Just fix the L/R position of the router by screwing in stop blocks and run the router longwise down the board. Take several passes and it will be fine.
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I had this impression that a track saw was that always mounted vertically contraption so you could cut 4x8 sheets with the shit. Apparently you just buy $100 worth of track and use your circular saw.

Maybe I'll go that route, because I'm always doing stupid shit like buying sheets of ply and MDF to do retarded projects and running it thru a table saw and only narrowly avoiding killing myself anyway.
 
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I got the dewalt track saw last year and love it. Last weekend was the first time I pulled the table saw out since I got the track saw
 
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buying sheets of ply and MDF to do retarded projects and running it thru a table saw and only narrowly avoiding killing myself anyway.
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I can never get a clean edge on the big sheets because I don't have enough infeed/outfeed support to keep from accidentally lifting/drooping the panel or coming off the fence slightly. Tracksaw is definitely a superior method for breakdown unless you have a giant shop surface or sliding table setup.
 
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Yeah sure, but that price. If youre making money with it its one thing but as a hobbyist? Nahh not worth.
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Totally fair. That's true of most Festool stuff. It's awesome, but pricey. I do love their tools, though. Check out their generators. Electric, so there's no noise. You can run a whole house off their generators for more than a day, but because it's all battery there's absolutely no noise. It's amazing. I can run a work site with one, table saw, trac saw, all of it plugged in at once and it keeps up completely. Plus on days when I am not using it, it charges on solar. However, pricey as fuck.
 
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Totally fair. That's true of most Festool stuff. It's awesome, but pricey. I do love their tools, though. Check out their generators. Electric, so there's no noise. You can run a whole house off their generators for more than a day, but because it's all battery there's absolutely no noise. It's amazing. I can run a work site with one, table saw, trac saw, all of it plugged in at once and it keeps up completely. Plus on days when I am not using it, it charges on solar. However, pricey as fuck.
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I don't think there's such a thing as an electric generator, by definition.

That's just a battery, bro
 
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Yeah sure, but that price. If youre making money with it its one thing but as a hobbyist? Nahh not worth.
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Yeah, their prices are nuts, but I've never heard a bad thing about them other than their price.
 
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Apparently you just buy $100 worth of track and use your circular saw.
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This is not the way. A track saw does ride on a track, yes, but they are not just your dad's old skilsaw that you marry up with "some track." you can do that, but your results will suck.

Get a purpose built track saw. They have features that give much cleaner and more precise/consistent cuts with very limited to zero tear-out. I own a Festool, and it is definitely top end. However, you can get the Kreg or Dewalt for less and they are not bad. Makita is good too. Don't bother if you're just going to use a construction saw and bolt it to a guide rail. You can do that with a piece of mdf and get the same mediocre results.
 
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This is not the way. A track saw does ride on a track, yes, but they are not just your dad's old skilsaw that you marry up with "some track." you can do that, but your results will suck.

Get a purpose built track saw. They have features that give much cleaner and more precise/consistent cuts with very limited to zero tear-out. I own a Festool, and it is definitely top end. However, you can get the Kreg or Dewalt for less and they are not bad. Makita is good too. Don't bother if you're just going to use a construction saw and bolt it to a guide rail. You can do that with a piece of mdf and get the same mediocre results.
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Kreg $400 - 10% off coupon on their website.

Makita $460 on Amazon

DeWalt looks like $600 to get cordless - meh.

Festool looks like $600-$800

Or there's this Wen one on Amazon for $200 or the kit.

I obviously know the DeWalt/Makita names, but I've never heard of any of these brands. I can see why cordless might be helpful if I wanna build a deer stand in the woods or something, but I don't need laser precision to build a deer stand in the woods and I have a circular saw.
 
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Cutlery said:
Kreg $400 - 10% off coupon on their website.

Makita $460 on Amazon

DeWalt looks like $600 to get cordless - meh.

Festool looks like $600-$800

Or there's this Wen one on Amazon for $200 or the kit.

I obviously know the DeWalt/Makita names, but I've never heard of any of these brands. I can see why cordless might be helpful if I wanna build a deer stand in the woods or something, but I don't need laser precision to build a deer stand in the woods and I have a circular saw.
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Cordless is awesome. I've been replacing everything I can with cordless, and it saves so much time on the job site. Just stack up on batteries and buy all the same brand tools.
 
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Cordless is awesome. I've been replacing everything I can with cordless, and it saves so much time on the job site. Just stack up on batteries and buy all the same brand tools.
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Yeah well, craftsman doesn't make a track saw.

And my job site is my garage 99% of the time.
 
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Yeah well, craftsman doesn't make a track saw.

And my job site is my garage 99% of the time.
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For hobby stuff, you can rip cut a straight line in most things using a craftsman skill saw if you make an mdf sled and get a ripping blade.

Theres a hundred of these videos:


Cut one straight edge using the circular saw and any simple jig. Flip it and use that cut edge on your table saw fence to cut the parallel edge. Flip it one more time and run a skim pass on the table saw in case your circular saw wasn't making a square edge. $20 worth of mdf for the jig.

That will give you 90% of what you want. Good enough for simple projects. You'll need flat, parallel, and square boards to make furniture.
 
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