Bob, I do the same with a clamp guide I bought from Harbor Freight. Only difference is I have one of those West coast Left Wing circ saws, and I have to compensate by 3 and 5/8 inches, which can make your head spin if you do it too many times.
Bill Stephan Kansas Citty MO Email: [email protected] Phone: (816)803-2469 ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Kennedy <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:07 pm Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] EZ Smart Guide > I use something very similar as far as the guide. Mine came from > a company called Pro Grip and also has a shoe for the bottom of > the saw. I have never attached the shoe however. I measure the > difference between the edge of the shoe of the saw and the edge of > the blade, right at an inch and a half on my Porter Cable saw. > > It can be a bother sometimes. But if I want to take a foot off > the edge of a board, for example, I set the guide at 13 and a half > inches from the edge and clamp it in place. I make sure the edge > of the saw is tight to the edge of the guide and then back the saw > away from the board to start it. From there it's all the same. > > Just one way to get the final depth back. Another, and don't take > this as an insult, but I'd loosen the depth adjuster and make real > sure the shoe is against the saw as tight as it can get. You > should be able to make a 2 inch cut with any 7 and a quarter saw > and the base shouldn't be more than a quarter inch thick. That > should leave you well able to cut through a 2 by anything. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: Blind Handyman List > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:23 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] EZ Smart Guide > > > I have one of those amazingly useful EZ Smart Guide Systems > from Eureka > Zone. This is an extruded Aluminum track that you can use to > ride your > circular saw on to make very straight cuts. You have to add a > special > shoe to the shoe of your circ saw so that the new shoe rides on > the groove > of the track. > > OK, here's the deal, the shoe adds some thickness, as does the > thickness > of the track. Possibly I've got a circular saw with one of the > smaller > max depth of cut, but it drives me absolutely insane that I > can't even cut > through two by material while using the smart guide. While using > the > guide, I can cut exactly 1 and 7/16 inches which means I have to > hand saw > that stupid last 1/16 of an inch. Of course it never comes out > perfectly > smooth. > > Anyway, I am wondering if other people have the same issue. > Also, I am > considering purchasing an 8 and a quarter inch circ saw. I've > not laid > hands on one yet, but have read about them. Anybody have one? > Are they > significantly larger, heavier, or harder to handle than the > standard 7.25 > saw? The one I am considering has a 3 inch max depth of cut. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
