How YOU Should Be Cutting Plywood
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- In this video I show you the process that I go through to break down plywood and achieving perfectly square cuts every time.
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I'm glad I kept watching, I figured it was a Festool centric video, great info on work flow. I learned something about panel cutting workflow I can use with my unistrut / track clamp bare bones panel cutting system ! Great video as always, thanks !
Glad you found it helpful
Yeah - glad I watch. Thought it was just going to about track saw.
Me too, thought it was going to be Festool 'R' us, then why cut off the factory edge and replace it??
Good video. Too bad you don’t like using Festool brand…
I got a Makita track saw since that comment and just recently drank the green kool-aid an got a CT-25 dust extractor, very nice!@@RichardBoisclair-hw6nb
I know it’s a small thing, but I really appreciated the tip to leave material on both sides of the blade to improve dust collection.
Glad you found it helpful 👍
I use a piece of painters tape to mark each of my reference edges as they are made. This way I can easily label the parts for the joinery process. ie side bottom, bottom front, etc etc.
I like that as well when dealing with a lot of parts for sure 👍
Yeah, I do the same thing with Post-its ... they are easy to peel off and to write on. They don't adhere as well as painters tape but will stay put mid stack and usually they are just placed on the top panel of each stack of .. "base sides".."base tops, bottoms, rail splits, shelves".. etc. I place them in the 90* reference corner for the good length and end cuts. I usually add a pencil slash mark in that same corner.
Good idea! I will be doing that in the future thanks.
When I learned with basic handtools in woodshop, keeping track of reference and show sides was drilled into us. Somewhere along the line I stopped paying as much attention to it. Machining wood can give me a false sense of confidence sometimes, and it's so fast that I can move through without thinking carefully about how I'm doing things. Great video. Its a good reminder.
Hi Jason, thanx for your videos, been watching a couple.
I would like to ad something for people who 'struggle' to get a straigt edge. You are working with top notch cabinet grade ply, which will stay true when cut. But if someone uses cheaper stuff, say construction grade ply, following might be helpful: Material (ply, solid timber or even a chunk of steel for the engineer) is allways under tension. Tip: release that tension first! If, for say, you cut a sheet of ply in half then make this rip cut first. 610, then trim 5 each side to your final 600. Like this you will shave off any bending that occured when tension was released when cutting the sheet in half.
If confronted with a 'reference' edge that is suddenly not straight anymore, people often try to find the fault in the gear (track, saw) but it can be the sneaky material that plays up.
Hope I explained in a way easy to understand.
I do this on a leftover piece of 3/4" flooring plywood, cheap plastic saw horses and a Makita track saw all day in my driveway. With great results.
Great lesson on breaking a sheet down and squaring it up in a way that those of us without expensive tools can repicate. Thanks!
This video really clarified things I've observed and thought were my fault with plywood. It's not. I now realize that I'll have to treat plywood in a very similar manner as hand tool work with solid wood. The rest is mechanics once the consistent system is in place.
Thank you, I’ve always been fascinated with cabinet building. Ive built a few. But i keep running into accuracy. Now i have the info i need to improve what i aspire to do.
ABSOLUTELY in love w my new combo Tracksaw(wen w festool tracks) and dewalt palm router guideplate setup on other side of track. Saves time and space, Perfect cuts.
This is spot on. I always make my cuts 1/4" over and then final on the table saw using the reference cut against the fence.
I love checking cabs or drawers for square and they are spot on dead square. great video. thank you.
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Thank you for sharing! You are a born pedagogue. An extremely clear explanation of how to achieve accurate cuts on sheet material. With the current cost of material, it's more important than ever to minimize error and avoid unnecessary waste.
Not fretting about getting the whole sheet square, and just concentrating on the initial reference edge is much easier than wresting an 8 by 4 through the 5 cut method in a small workshop.
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I watched your demo on installing Blum undermount drawer slides. Now I watched this demo on cutting sheet plywood with perfectly square corners. You are really, really good at explaining--in easy to follow directions--how to do stuff in a wood shop. You should've been my shop teacher long ago. So I'm bookmarking each and every demo you do here on CZcams. All will help in my future furniture projects. P.S.: I like your occasional references to certain specs on things like drill bits and handy tools I hadn't already heard of.
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Great advice,thanks! I’m about to tackle building a complicated shelving & drawer storage unit, and this was very helpful.
This is awesome. As a DIYer I've never looked at breaking down a sheet of ply like this. You've made it much more simple for me to understand. Thank you and I just subbed! Keep up the great work!
So glad you found it helpful
I like the tip about making that first cut a little deeper so there is wood on the right side of the blade. I've noticed how much more dust I get if I'm "saving" wood by cutting just the edge clean.
Oh yeah, nothing to trap it when just skimming the edge.
I appreciate and greatly value the clarity of your teaching. I’ve learned a lot from your channel and my projects get a little more efficient and precise every time. Thank you!
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That was probably the best explanation on breaking down a sheet of plywood I have ever seen. Thank You so Much
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This has been a huge help to me. Thanks for explaining and going through the details.
I don’t have the fancy table so I opted for a four foot drywall square and handle my cuts that way for now. In my recent project, everything lined up perfectly and it was a pretty amazing experience!
You don’t need all the fancy stuff. Glad you found it helpful
One thing I always love to see is when the craftsman and makers I enjoy watching are supporting other makers in the community.
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Great advices for me as a beginner in woodworking. Keep it up!
Having just started my own business thanks for this video, excellent for helping me get best practice processes in place. thank you so much!
Thank you, this was extremely helpful. I also use a piece of 4x8 insulation board to protect my work top and I've even used on my concrete floor when I have heavy MDF. This works great for those of us that are not that tall or strong. I've book marked the cut optimizer and looking forward to trying it out.
It is a really useful tool especially for being free
That tip about cutlist optimizater is a so genius. Sometimes it's just the little things that make so much difference to the end product.
Thanks for the advice, never trust factory edges , I’m a bit of a perfectionist so I’m in agreement of making your own, cheers from Scotland.
I'm surprised your channel doesn't have more followers. I've been binging your videos and you do an excellent job explaining everything. Well done!
Great video Jason. I’ve really been enjoying these quick lessons you’ve been doing! Very helpful. Thanks so much
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I’m a bit late on the scene here having just found you. I found your methods and presentation style very interesting and engaging. I learned a lot here to tweak my accuracy. I don’t have or want a table saw but I take your main point that it’s about the process so I can still use this to get more accurate results. Any more videos using track saws will be welcome here. Thank you so much and subbed! Greetings from 🇬🇧.
Thanks Jason! Great video. Simple easy to follow instructions. I appreciate what you share with us!
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I've built a fair amount of plywood cabinetry etc. and just never stopped to think of this ever so simple technique. I will use it from now on. Thank you for the great video
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Great information. Thanks. I just really appreciated that you used millimetres in your video as a measure of accuracy.
Excellent practical advice. I appreciate the wisdom of cutting the pieces larger on the track saw for later precise final cutting on the table saw. And, of course, keeping track of the reference edges as they are created. Lesson learned. Thanks very much!
You’re welcome
@@bentswoodworking may I ask why not do the precise final cut with the track saw? Is it a necessity to do it at the table saw? Personally I feel like track saw gives me cleaner cuts. Are you worried about the lack of a fence for track saw systems not producing perfectly square cuts?
Hi, I'm at beginning stage and your lesson was greatly helpful. Many thanks.
This has been the best video I have found for breaking down plywood correctly!! Thank you!!
You’re welcome!!
Great tutorial. You have answered many of my RFIs in an easy to follow format. Thank you. Semper fidelis.
I knew you were military as soon as I saw RFI 🤣
Thank you for this video..I've been having problems trying to get square panels. Now I know why. Thanks again.
You’re very welcome!
Really love your channel. I learn so much. Thanks very much for doing this!!!
What I love about these videos is the neat little tools I discover, like that little pocket ruler. I had to pause the video and order one right away!
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I love your basic videos, so important, nicely explained.
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Great, informative video! Thank You!
Excellent workmanship. Thanks for the attention to details.
Thank you
I love this. Thank you!
Another great instructional video. I like the process of using parallel guides, MFT, and tablesaw. Fortunately I have all 3. Justifies the expense. The MFT was my last purchase and I wished I had bought it ages ago. All the plethora of shop built tables are fair enough but the MFT still rules I think.
Another great vid that really helps newbies such as me ! Good Stuff Brent. Cheers
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Really enjoyed this. Making all the reference sides was a great share. Will look into the freeware you mentioned as well. Thanks
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Great video, thanks for the link to the cutlist optimiser, great website
Sounds process, but the explanation and demonstration was even better! Thanks for sharing.
Great technique and you really spelled out in an easy to follow process. Thank you !
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Nice video as always.
Excellent video. The cut list optimizer is great. Tx!
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Thankyou - I now realise how using what I thought was a dead on factory edge, compounded to make the last few cuts of the sheet way out. I always thought I was ‘saving’ wood by using factory edges and making exact measurement cuts from the sheet. A few mm of ‘wasted’ wood will lead to square projects that I won’t be secretly disappointed in.
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As a new track saw owner I found this video very helpful. Thank you 👍😎🇦🇺
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Thanks for the idea of foam under the wood. Worked great.
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This was really helpful. I wrestled with this. Seems so obvious after seeing it. Thanks a ton!
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This video was excellent. Super simple and smart!
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Great info. This really lays out the why and how. Getting my first track saw soon just for this purpose.
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Good instructional video, Jason. Thanks!
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Good stuff! Explained well
Great video Jason. I use a similar technique and if feel it's much safer than putting a large sheet on my table saw. Also, having a workflow around the assembly table always made more sense to me!
Thank you!
I didn’t know about opposing corners. Thank you
Great video. It was nice to see how a pro deals with the lack of square on factory edges. I like your festool setup. I have been trying to do the same sort of thing with my kreg aws
Thanks, glad you found it helpful!
One of the valuable things I've discovered from this channel is that the very nice TSO products now support the Kreg ACS track system (they didn't back when I first purchased the ACS).
Nice Job, sir: Your presentation was outstanding! I’m glad that I watched the entire video. I “liked and subscribed” to your channel. Keep them coming!!
Thank you, glad you found it helpful
Nice job/explanation! I wasn't sure why you wouldn't just use the track saw but you explained perfectly why it would be important! Thank you!
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Thank you, GREAT video! Wish I watched it last week before building 3 cabinets and having to sand every edge to square.
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Love this system 👍😎
Great educational video. Thank you
Works as advertised!
Great Video Jason. Keep up the good work
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Love it. Thank you for the guidance.
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Excellent video! Great technique! Makes total sense
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Very useful for me since I'm a beginner. Great technique!
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Thank you for your video. I am a complete beginner and appreciate you explaining it in a way that I can understand.
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At first I thought it was going to be all about the tools but those techniques I learned when I was in woodshop back in the 80s.
Great information!!
I'm a newbie. Learned a lot. Liked the work flow info. And yes, I am n awe of your setup.
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Very good tip's.i have been using the same methods for years except for the final table saw cut as I didn't have one suitable.i will have a new festool TKS 80 next week and will be fully using your method.thanks for a great tutorials.regards from Ireland.Shane 👍
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Using the fence to measure and having the track flip up like that is something I look forward to building in to my workbench
Well Done.. THX for making the video
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Great tips, very useful to me, learned new professional way of doing work. Thank you very much
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This will help me building a garage cabinet for my wife!.. thanks 🙏🏼
Great video Jason. The biggest take away for me was the Cutlist optimizer. I used to try a use Sketchup but that is way more work
Such a helpful program
All around great video. I just purchased a Makita track saw and what a game changer it is. Thanks for the tips.
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Great stuff, thanks!
What an eye opening video. Thank you.
My pleasure!
My gosh you did a fantastic job of explaining all of this, very good work! I'll will be using your techniques during my first cabinet builds, thanks!
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Just ordered a Festool cordless track saw and an additional 55" track. No more cutting larger sheet goods on the floor with a guide and circular saw on rigid foam. Using a Bora 4x8 Centipede for now, will build my own shop table with T-Tracks for the Festool and TSO parallel guide system. Thanks for your channel. You invest in Festool you invest in quality.
Great video and a lot of useful tips! Love the fact you’re using metric. You’re a smart man 😃👌🏼
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"Perfectly 90°" Brilliant, fantastic explanation! Very easy to understand. Tvx from Sweden
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This seems simply analogous to how we cut milled wood… you start with a reference edge, cut the other rip, establish a clean 90 degree crosscut face and measure and cut for length. The real secret, with whatever tools you use, is to ensure your setup is creating perfect parallel or perpendicular cuts! Nice video.
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@@bentswoodworking Came here to say this. I usually rip a factory edge and then take a framing square and then rip a second edge so you know you one corner of the sheet is perfectly 90. I find this easier and I think it reduces your total number of crosscuts as opposed to having to make a 90deg cut on every crosscut. If you know a reference corner is 90deg then you can reference the whole corner vs having to mark out a perfectly perpendicular line every time.
I am a home builder of 40 years and I thought I could cut plywood. This is a very nice video. Well done.
Good Stuff! As a rookie...I'm always making mistakes by not keeping track of my square edge. I'll be sure to start marking my edge(s) now 👍
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I’m new to woodworking love your channel. Thanks.
Awesome! Thank you!
This is fantastic advice. Subbed!
Thank you!
This was beyond helpful, sir
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Excellent. Thank you for that.
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Awesome video. Thanks!
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Absolutely great video.
Thank you
Very thorough. Thank you Brother.
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I love that you’re using metric measurements! 👌
So true.
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What’s the benefit of using metric? I’m not being sarcastic? I really wonder what is the benefit if it makes sense I may change to using metric if there is an actual benefit!
@@gabbyjim8943 fractions and a system of 10's
@@gabbyjim8943 quick answer is, metric is just faster and easier. It’s not quite as accurate as imperial but by being easier to work with mistakes are less likely and work flows more smoothly.
I’m Australian and use metric almost exclusively. Still, I like to be as unbiased as possible, so let me explain what I meant about the accuracy of the two systems.
There are roughly 25.4mm in 1 inch. That means that, even if you’re splitting the millimetre marks on a metric rule, you only get accuracy to 1/56 of an inch. Compare that to splitting 1/32’s marks on an imperial rule: you get 1/64 of an inch accuracy for the same piece of material.
That’s the only real difference in accuracy.
Of course, this doesn’t count those rare times I take a measurement in 1/3’s of a millimetre … because measuring in 1/3’s of a millimetre gives an accuracy of 1/76 of an inch.
1000% agree! you just pointed out ALL what is necessary! great content… I wish to have such festool saw. it is amazing, and easy and gives repeatable cuts, is somebody here to sell used one?