Cut Plan Pack

Getting your parts out of real boards, with the blade counted

Four 24in legs total exactly 96in — and will not come out of an 8ft board, because each cut turns an eighth of an inch into sawdust. That is discovered at the saw, with the wood already bought. This is the six setup checks in dependency order with real tolerances, blade selection by cut including the grind that decides whether melamine chips, the kerf arithmetic and which stock length actually wastes least for your parts, seasonal movement by species and grain, and a symptom-to-cause table that reads a burn mark back to the setting that caused it. 9 pages, printable, ending in a safety page and a fill-in cut list you take to the saw and to the lumberyard. Advisory: a table saw injures more woodworkers than any other machine, and your saw's manual governs.

Look inside

Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• Six setup checks in dependency order, each with a measurable tolerance
• Why the fence must never toe in, and what happens when it does
• Blade choice by cut: tooth count AND grind, including the ones that chip melamine
• The kerf arithmetic that turns one board into two
• Which stock length wastes least — frequently not the longest
• Seasonal movement by species and grain, across four panel widths
• Real depth of cut by blade size, at 90 and at 45 degrees
• Symptom to cause to fix: burning, chipping, out-of-square, a kerf a new blade did not fix
• The order to cut a parts list in, and the three decisions to make first
• Seven things never to do at a table saw, each with the safe alternative
• Fill-in cut list, stock record and setup record

The pack complements the free calculators — they do the arithmetic, it carries the specifications and the plan they cannot know.