Note to other do-it-yourselfers

You might think you can rip cut using a jig saw, but you can’t. Really, the only way to rip cut is using a table saw. You can get close with a band saw, but the cut will be jiggley.

Comments (2)

  1. And that little roto-zip thing that they show them putting on a wall and cutting out a nice square outlet hole turns into a wild torque fest of jagged lines across the wall.

    Saturday, February 19, 2005 at 23:08:00 #
  2. triticale wrote:

    What you guys need are guide fences, and on the band saw you need to replace the standard blade guides with roller bearings. I actually use the zip saw, along with an 8 foot extruded alumminum bar and a couple of c-clamps, instead of a chisel for setting hinges into exterior doors.

    Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 19:20:25 #