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Originally Posted by masraum
I love coming up with an idea and then the satisfaction when it's done. It can be a little nerve wracking when I'm getting ready to start and thinking "OK, I know what I want it to look like, how the fark do I make that happen?" That's when I think it would have been nice to have been taught by a family member or something. I took wood shop in the 10th grade, but then moved schools part way through the year so only made a couple of simple pieces.
I'm fairly certain I'll end up with a table saw, mitre saw and track saw. I'm going to get a better table saw than the last one that I had.
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A track saw is nice to have but IMO, not always necessary. I used a home made cutting guide for years even though I have a panel saw. For smaller jobs if I was doing all the work myself, I still have to hump the plywood into the shop from the truck.
I am a HUGE fan of not having to carry heavy stuff oin and off the truck. I have two saw horses on a wooden rack made with 1x material doweled together on edge to prevent my circular saw from hitting any nails or screws tied to saw horses that act like a table that sits in the back of my truck. Slide the ply wood onto that. Make one mark, put crosscut jig on mark, clampboth side, and crosscut with Skillsaw into smaller pieces. Much lighter and easier to carry into the shop. Set up table saw and cut away to exactly size. I can cut all the sides to a pretty large kitchen in about 30 min to an hour without having to life the entire piece of plywood off the truck once. I haven't done it in a very long time. If the guys are there, they can hump the sheet goods onto the panel saw, ones set up, we can cut very accurate panels within minutes with no chips or blow outs. Now, we don't even use that anymore. We order the panels cut on a CNC into actual size and start assembly immediately. Saves loading and unloading, cut time too.