As any regular reader knows, I've been repairing a major problem on my house. It has taken a long time because I only get about a day and a half to work on it every weekend, and some times even less than that. I'm getting down to the end (or at least I hope I am) and wouldn't you know it - I came up short on tools.
Now, follow along here. I am trimming the room and needed a particular sized piece of wood in a 12 foot length. I go to the big hardware store to get some and it turns out that they don't carry what I need in 12 foot length. It's a special order. (Read: $$$!!) So I went on home and started to think. What I realized rather quickly is that with a table saw, I could buy a wider piece and cut it in half myself. But as I've already pointed out, I have no table saw. More thought.
Aha, says I! (Yes, I really said "Aha!" out loud.) I had seen an article on some woodworking or DIY website where some clever tool man had turned a rotary saw into a table saw. Since I just happened to have an extra rotary saw, this seemed doable. I removed the switch and wired it to be 'always on' and then cut some plywood I had laying about. Add some scrap 2x4s and I had myself a genuine hand made do-it-yerself-and-get-r-done Table Saw. (Yes, capital letters, Bubba, because I said so.)
It probably will take the addition of a set of legs to do it up right, but it's done and if it hadn't rained that afternoon, I'd have been out there cutting lumber and taking names!
The first good weekend in January, Look Out!
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