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In reply to the discussion: Making a shelf [View all]

quakerboy

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19. Not here
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 09:26 PM
Jan 2012

None of the neighbors would have such a thing. Most of the neighbors are apartments, and the others are Condo's. My dad would have one, but its probably 65 years old and rusty, stuck in the back of storage where it would take a moving crew a few hours just to get to it, with a cord thats been re-spliced 6 times after he accidentally cut through it. Thats how things go there. i remember he had any tool you could think of when I was a kid, but the last time I borrowed a drill, he had to instruct me on which parts of the handle you could touch and which would get you electrocuted. I decided just to buy a cheap one, as I didnt expect to need it for much.

I'm strongly thinking about getting a cheap miter saw from HD or lowes when I get ready to go past the trial stage of this project. The more I think about this the less desire I have to build 7 shelves with a dull handsaw that is shorter than the width of some of the shelves

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Making a shelf [View all] quakerboy Jan 2012 OP
How did you come up with 95 degrees?? Angry Dragon Jan 2012 #1
I was hopeing they were square quakerboy Jan 2012 #2
Are yer us'en a hand saw or a electric compound Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2012 #3
Hand Saw quakerboy Jan 2012 #10
Doesn't work that way. jeff47 Jan 2012 #5
Try it with a piece of paper. quakerboy Jan 2012 #9
Well, one of us has shelves that didn't come together. jeff47 Jan 2012 #12
Because my shelves come together at an angle that is not 90 degrees quakerboy Jan 2012 #14
Walls are never perfect. jeff47 Jan 2012 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #6
It is quite possible to make more than one cut jeff47 Jan 2012 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #8
I don't have to. I do it with wood. jeff47 Jan 2012 #11
This. Adsos Letter Jan 2012 #13
! Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2012 #15
Ive a few thoughts. quakerboy Jan 2012 #16
My goodness ! Wash. state Desk Jet Jan 2012 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Jan 2012 #18
Not here quakerboy Jan 2012 #19
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