Cutting Wood

How to cut wood, using different saws and techniques.

No Tablesaw? Here's How to Cut Plywood with a Circular Saw

Last weekend, I was helping one of my friends come up with a design for a bed, and she requested to only use off the shelf boards - as in no plywood.  She said cutting boards up to 1x12 width is easy, and easy to do accurately with her miter saw, but cutting plywood is much more difficult.  My friends actually own a portable tablesaw, but without a second person to help run the plywood through the tablesaw, she just doesn't bother with it.

So I thought today I'd share a fe

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