Panel Jig and 4x8

[DaveK]

Panel cutting tables are sweet if you do a lot of building. I just lay a few 2x4 sleepers on the driveway and cut the panel on top of them.

(Actually, I usually try to have the lumber store rought cut my panels when I can )

[djohnson573]

I just lay a few 2x4 sleepers on the driveway and cut the panel on top of them.

I used to do exactly same thing. Then I saw the picture of the table that Leland posted (it was posted in a earlier thread), built one of them, and it is sooooooo much easier on the back and knees. Plus it makes a nice work table for the rest of the build.

[Scott Brochu]

Panel cutting tables are sweet if you do a lot of building. I just lay a few 2x4 sleepers on the driveway and cut the panel on top of them.

(Actually, I usually try to have the lumber store rought cut my panels when I can )

Thats not going to cut it when you have to make precise cuts, I do a lot of cabinetry.
But ya if you need to make cross cuts here and there than even the straight edge clamped down to each side will surfice.

[bgavin]

I just lay a few 2x4 sleepers on the driveway and cut the panel on top of them.

Me too.

I'm always filming a new installment of the White Trash Workshop.
My T48 internals are cut to 27.000", each, which is close enough for gummint work.
That is also why it takes me so damn long to get anything built.

[DaveK]

Panel cutting tables are sweet if you do a lot of building. I just lay a few 2x4 sleepers on the driveway and cut the panel on top of them.

(Actually, I usually try to have the lumber store rought cut my panels when I can )

Thats not going to cut it when you have to make precise cuts, I do a lot of cabinetry.
But ya if you need to make cross cuts here and there than even the straight edge clamped down to each side will surfice.

I don't do precision cuts on top of 2x4 sleepers, either. That's just to rough cut the panels down to a manageable size so I can do the precision cut on the table saw.

[Harley]

I don't do precision cuts on top of 2x4 sleepers, either. That's just to rough cut the panels down to a manageable size so I can do the precision cut on the table saw.

Some of the cut schedules I am doing at present are so tight that anything out by 1/4" would screw the whole sheet up

[bgavin]

Mine are always a different size than your cutout sheets, so I use the Programme (spelled that jus' fo' you) then hand-tweak the pieces where they work better.

It takes me 3 sheets of 5x5 BB for a 28" T48.
Itty bitty junk pieces and bracing from scrap.

I've never been able to get the accuracy from my table saw that I get from the circular saw and guide.
If I finish rip a 60" piece on the table saw, it still wanders enough to ruin the work.
Guide cutting with the circular saw is why I'm so slow...