I'm being an idiot, I'll admit that right up front. But ripping sheet goods is making me hate my life. I used to always just suffer through cutting on my table saw. Terrible, but not the least accurate way I have cross cut sheets. I made some fairly successful cuts by doing a ton of setup work and clamping two levels, one on each side of the shoe of my P+C 18v saw. Which admittedly is under-powered for the job. But then a friend mentioned Harbor Freight has these $20 clamp on straight edges. Convenient, but I've never made crappier cuts in my life. So now I'm just like "F it, a cheap track saw can only be an improvement!"
Options I'm considering:
- Cheap track saw. Like the Wen.
- Giving up and getting over my resistance to cutting on the ground on a sheet of insulation. Hate the idea of storing and wasting insulation, but people seem happy with it.
- Getting a better straight guide, like a Bora NGX or a Kreig.
- P+C seems to be end of life, so I might as well start switching to a new tool system by plunking down $450 of the Makita 36V track saw, right? I mean, I make into the double digits of circ saw cuts a year, so it'll probably pay off in my lifetime, right?
- Make darn sure I over-cut, and then trim down using the table saw, and deal with the waste that my Tesla-driving-but-frugal-about-plywood ass will generate.
- Build a 1-axis CNC using aluminum extrusion to make the cuts for me. Robots with spinning blades, what could possibly go wrong?
- Some other clearly optimal solution I'm just not considering...
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