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 :)
For a hand saw, you could try the advice in this video from Wood by Wright, but may I suggest a cheap circular saw and a cutting guide track like this Swanson that I used for a while before I upgraded to a Grizzly track saw.
Great video, thanks, I have to say that saw myself in the video when he was twisting from one side to the other. Good to know what to avoid.
I’ll look up videos about how you use a guide track, that’d be great. I’ll have to make sure I can justify a purchase like that by using it enough. Thanks for the pointers!