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exactly! makes the pupu dry and relatively odorless!
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Ok. I tried moving the jigsaw slowly, but still the blade drifts :confused:
Looks like there's more to it than just pushing slower.

Ended up using the circular saw. Maingay nga lang at mas makalat ang sawdust! 😮

Glued-up and clamped

First time to shoot brads, enjoyed this part a lot.

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And the final screw-up

I need to build a 2nd one

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Hehehehe natawa ako Sa last picture. Looking nice

Also your space seems huge!

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you're on your way Joey... all it needed was something to start with.

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I tried moving the jigsaw slowly, but still the blade drifts.
Looks like there's more to it than just pushing slower.
Ended up using the circular saw. Maingay nga lang at mas makalat ang sawdust!

Besides blade choice, orbital setting, stroke rate, and feed rate as previously mentioned, it could also be how you try to keep the blade against the fence.

To cut polycarbonate, I first used a circular saw. The cut was smooth and straight but the blade has to obliterate a lot of material being about 2.5 mm thick. It's like cutting with a grinding wheel on a cut-off saw. I felt that the saw was doing more blasting or scraping than cutting. I was also getting slight chipping at start and finish of cut. With a jig saw (result below), with blade only 1.2 mm thick, less effort is needed to push the saw, and the cut seems as smooth if not smoother (the T101A jig saw blade for acrylic glass is finer than the 60T circular saw blade), but the tool is prone to drifting as you experienced.

To keep the tool against the fence, try angling the cut towards the fence ever so slightly, as if you were trying to drift into the fence. This is more of a pressure thing, with high pressure on the front of the base plate against the fence and low pressure on the rear, such that the rear may even lose contact with fence by fraction of a millimeter.

Using this method, I was able to cut without drift.

If the blade does drift away, use the ability of jig saw to make curve cuts to your advantage. Just curve back to the fence 🙂 which will also establish your drift-in angle or pressure differential. This will rescue the cut but leave a convex part. Then do a second pass using above technique to 'plane' away the convex curve.

Well, it works for polycarbonate. I assume above suggestions would also apply to wood.

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nice Guad. nice looking Lexan too, I always wanted to try my hand using that material but I just never sourced it... yet 😀

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Thanks, guad! I'll try those in my next project.

The circular saw can really cut well. It can even become a really powerful nail cutter:

I'm lucky its only a nick. Next time I have to be _really_ mindful of where I stick my fingers.

Here's another shot of the "multistool" in action.

That's my son helping out in painting his room.

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The first "product", a simple study table for SWMBO.

I didn't bother dressing up the lower parts. Wifey's only concered with the top. :p

Same "joinery" as the multistool

For the next project, a computer/study table for my son, I'd like to try the method used in the commerically available mdf/particle board furnitures

Anybody know where I can buy the hardware for this?

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Hehehehe natawa ako Sa last picture. Looking nice

Also your space seems huge!

I had the same reaction after I clamped that 2x4 :p

That used to be the 2-car garage. Will be converting it into a workshop.

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this is available in to suy Joey...

this is not...

what happened? how did it get near the blade?
please be careful around those cutting powertools even when they are powering down... glad that you are fine but not happy such an incident happened to you...
Please ALWAYS keep safe...

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@joey,
ang ganda naman ng bar clamps mo...locally purchased ba yan o import?

black lang kasi but i am used to seeing red jorgensens...

thanks...

nice dust factory!!!

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i also wonder how that finger got in the way... supporting the board from beneath?

aww! well its just a nick...

but fingernicks are always painful.

live and learn.

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The circular saw can really cut well. It can even become a really powerful nail cutter:

Oh goody, perhaps your fingers were too near to the saw while holding into the guide. Not sure but I think you may opt to "simulate" a cut with the tool un-powered so you get to foresee scenarios which will avoid the above-pictured mishap.

Good thing nails grow back 😀

Do I see child labor este a Zekoki power sucker here :p

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@docV, yes I absentmindedly supported the workpiece from below towards the end of the cut. The piece was only 2" wide. Good thing I already released the trigger and the blade has slowed down a bit.

@jarod, I'm a proud owner of that powerful sucker. I once dropped the sprayer fittings down the sink. This sucker saved the day!