With 23" wide sheets of plywood to cross-cut I broke out my garage sale find Milwaukee circ saw. I have to say... it's definitely worth the $30 or so I paid for it over my old Skil. That thing was notoriously unable to make a perpendicular vertical cut which was lame. But this Milwaukee did a fine job! I tested each cut with a square...
Perfection. Or as close to it as possible with a hand power tool.
I used my trusty $20 guide and the included C-clamps (along with my 48" drywall square) to make some just-about-perfectly-straight and really really square cuts...
And ended up with a pile of lumber ready to be dado-ed!
Not enough time to start that tonight... so I just did my test and got everything ready for the real deal this weekend. This meant I got to test out my awesome jig!
Which basically worked perfectly. The only tough part was the pattern bit is only a hair over 1/4" high... and I'm trying to make a 1/4" deep dado. So it took some finessing to get the depth of the router set just right but then it was a piece of cake to make the dado joint...
Then fitted a second piece of scrap wood to test the joint...
Perfect! And ready to rock and roll... I'm excited to do all the joinery and really use my jig. And then get to organizing my gear!
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