Cutting down a wardrobe?

Keitai said:
It's cut down. As it's not flat and I used piece of ply as the fence for circular saw the saw slipped under the fence. In cases like this, is it best to hold saw tilted slightly upwards so it always presses against fence?


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I have a feeling that your tape measure might be out of a couple of millimeters...
 
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JobAndKnock said:
In terms of sawing this sort of thing, you can either buy yourself a plunging rail saw and rails (expensive) or you can make yourself up a guide for your saw which can be clamped onto the material. This is basically a piece of 4 or 6mm plywood or MDF with a straight piece piece of 2 x 1 PSE softwood screwed and glued down one edge:

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Just note that before using it "in anger" you need to make a trim cut to size base exactly to the saw. This type of fence or bridge should allow you to cut fairly uneven stuff with or without non-straight edges but without any need to reference the saw fence which is redundant for this operation as the left side of the sw base (for right hand blade saws, for left blade saws you run the other way with the right edge of the base against the 2 x 1). The guide does need to be clamped in place, though, before cutting
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Have the baton the furthest side from saw. My saw is left side so I'll make this jig with baton on right side
 
JobAndKnock said:
In terms of sawing this sort of thing, you can either buy yourself a plunging rail saw and rails (expensive) or you can make yourself up a guide for your saw which can be clamped onto the material. This is basically a piece of 4 or 6mm plywood or MDF with a straight piece piece of 2 x 1 PSE softwood screwed and glued down one edge:

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Just note that before using it "in anger" you need to make a trim cut to size base exactly to the saw. This type of fence or bridge should allow you to cut fairly uneven stuff with or without non-straight edges but without any need to reference the saw fence which is redundant for this operation as the left side of the sw base (for right hand blade saws, for left blade saws you run the other way with the right edge of the base against the 2 x 1). The guide does need to be clamped in place, though, before cutting
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I'll knock up jig long enough to cut off bottoms of doors. Would u bother with longer cuts e.g. 2.5metre long cuts?

I'll also after fixing fence (baton) let the saw cut the ply off
 
Keitai said:
I'll knock up jig long enough to cut off bottoms of doors. Would u bother with longer cuts e.g. 2.5metre long cuts?

I'll also after fixing fence (baton) let the saw cut the ply off
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Yes, that's how i've done mine.
This way you don't need to be super precise when fixing the guide baton to the ply.
But you need a straight baton to start with.
Better if sliced on a table saw so to be sure is straight.
 
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