How To Rip A Sheet Of Plywood

I keep a piece of rigid foam board in my workshop.

How to rip a sheet of plywood.

This week we re sharing 2 of our most used shantytips when ripping huge pieces of plywood and making cross cuts on them. The disadvantage of the 140 tooth plywood blade is that the teeth will dull much faster than the teeth on the three carbide blades. For all of you denser than stone types i m just showing the method here not covering every possible safety precaution known to the human race. I m assuming for this example you need a full length cut a rip down the 8 foot length of the sheet.

Typically it s easiest to rip the sheet lengthwise into the widths you want before cross cutting the lengths you want. Measure from the corner to your cut line and mark with a pencil. Where are you watching from commen. I do about 1 4 so for ripping 3 4 thick plywood i set my blade to about 1 depth.

Ripping plywood sheets to desired widths. Use a drywall square to draw your cut line across the whole sheet. The more stable the plywood the better your chances for a perfectly smooth cut. When i cut plywood i place the plywood on top of the foam and cut right into the foam.

I know this is step 3 but you can cut down plywood in whatever order you wish. These large sheets of plywood from lowe s come in at the low low price of 13 per sheet. Of all the tips i can give you this one helped me the most. Do the same thing on the other end of the sheet establishing two points for your cut line.

We gave the guy a generous tip because it probably was more than they usually cut for free. Speaking of let s discuss the difference in cross cuts vs rip cuts. Set the blade depth to just clear the plywood thickness. Put the best edge of the wood against the fence and push the corner of the board into the fence to keep the board tight against the fence throughout the cut image 3.

As long as they re sharp any of these four 7 1 4 in. When ripping a large sheet of plywood image 1 on a table saw use an outfeed table image 2 or roller stand to support the board as it comes off the saw. In general the more teeth the smoother the cut. And they ripped them down for free.

All 8 sheets of them. The size makes it difficult to keep the sheet flat on the table or bench and.