eharri446
Member
Over the past several months, I have seen many different examples of how the members of this association cut their pen blanks to rough length. What I want to show is how I have started to cut my blanks.
I purchased the Ryobi 18 volt Miter Saw from Home Depot about two months ago and last Saturday I had to trim some oak hardwood flooring to length for a project I was working on. So, while I had the saw set up, I pulled out some pieces of walnut crotch slabs that I had purchased from Rockler when they had it on sale and had ripped into square pieces. I set up a stop block at 5 inches in length and cut about thirty pen blanks on this new miter saw.
It worked great and gave s perfectly square and smooth cut on the ends. The best thing about it is that it uses standard 7 1/4 inch saw blades. I replaced the one that came with it with a Diablo 60 tooth blade made by Freud. The blade kerf is only 1/16th of an inch compared to the 1/8 of an inch of my table saw and the large 10 inch miter saw I was using previously. The saw only weighs around 15 pounds, and takes up about 13 by 14 inches on the work bench, and that makes it easy to set up and put away after the blanks are all cut. The price saw not bad either. If you already have the batteries the saw cost $99 otherwise it cost $149.
Here is what the saw looks like:
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I purchased the Ryobi 18 volt Miter Saw from Home Depot about two months ago and last Saturday I had to trim some oak hardwood flooring to length for a project I was working on. So, while I had the saw set up, I pulled out some pieces of walnut crotch slabs that I had purchased from Rockler when they had it on sale and had ripped into square pieces. I set up a stop block at 5 inches in length and cut about thirty pen blanks on this new miter saw.
It worked great and gave s perfectly square and smooth cut on the ends. The best thing about it is that it uses standard 7 1/4 inch saw blades. I replaced the one that came with it with a Diablo 60 tooth blade made by Freud. The blade kerf is only 1/16th of an inch compared to the 1/8 of an inch of my table saw and the large 10 inch miter saw I was using previously. The saw only weighs around 15 pounds, and takes up about 13 by 14 inches on the work bench, and that makes it easy to set up and put away after the blanks are all cut. The price saw not bad either. If you already have the batteries the saw cost $99 otherwise it cost $149.
Here is what the saw looks like:
View in Gallery
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