My partner and I want to make a plant stand, one of those things kind of like a stepladder with two or three shelves for plants. We have decided the measurements. We’ve bought a pine board (18mm thick) that has a brushed finish. The shop cut it into 41cm lengths, but now we need to take the final centimetre off and cut down about 5-10cm off the other side to bring it down to our desired size of 40cm x 40cm.
How do we do that? How do you cut down to a straight line? The tools (that I think are most relevant anyway, we have a pretty decent home maintenance toolkit of spanners and screwdrivers etc.) we have are:
-large rip saw,
-basic router,
-2 or 3 chisels,
-small hack saw.
Should I cut as close as as possible with the rip saw and then use a straight bit in the router? I am not sure that the guide on the router will be long enough to reach across ~40cm of board to brace against the far edge. If I’m barking up the wrong tree and need to get some other tool, please do let me know. We’re on a tight budget but if it’s a tool that we will use repeatedly, we can probably afford a budget version of it.
Thank you in advance :)
If you insist on that set of tools:
Thanks for the video. I know the set of tools is sub-optimal, so I appreciate you offering a way to make it work.
We’re going to buy a drill in the near future. Do you think that is a useful priority? I think an orbital sander would be useful too. We don’t have a workshop space, so we can’t get tabletop tools, if that makes sense.
Drills and sanders are useful for almost any woodworking project (and many non-woodworking projects), and they don’t take up a ton of space, so you get a lot of bang for your buck there.
You can sand by hand, of course. But pretty much everyone hates sanding. Spend an hour doing it and ask yourself if the $20 for a used sander is worth it.
Drills are basic necessities in the home toolkit.
(Edit: typo)