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Practice any art, however well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to find out what's inside you.
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Pictures are meant to be self explanatory, and for visual clarity you may click on each photo to enlarge. For older projects see Blog Archive. I don't specialize on a particular genre so there is quite a variety of projects for a number of different interests.

Even if you are not a woodworker but you like some or all of the projects, have your local crafts person make them for you from the ideas and photos you see here. For a particular project just click the specific title on the Blog Archive list (right side column below).

For anyone willing to learn or begin to do woodworking for the first time, please read first from the Blog Archive, "How and Where to Begin a Woodworking Hobby.

And it is not for men only. Read my note on "Women in Woodworking" from Blog Archive, April 2010.


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Saturday, March 23, 2019

Cutting Large Irregular Pieces

Ripping a wide piece into narrower pieces on the table saw is what it is very good for but only for as long as there is already one side that is straight flat. Irregular shapes would still be no problem by using a sled. A wide circular piece as this one here -  3 ft diameter - that I wanted to cut into narrower rectangles poses a different challenge.


I fastened with screws one section of the circle into a straight edged piece as shown


The key here is for the piece itself to be flat on the table saw while the "sled" is riding on it but flat against the fence.

Keeping the edge of the riding "sled" flat against the fence insures that the cut will be straight on the work piece.  And since the work piece itself is flat on the table saw, it is a much safer way to do it. After this operation the pieces can then be cut to the desired dimension/s.






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