Breaking Down Plywood Sheets

A diy friend showed me kreg s rip cut tool with a circular saw and i fell in love.

Breaking down plywood sheets.

A great way to initially cut your plywood sheets down to more manageable sizes is to use your circular saw. A full size sheet of plywood is 8 feet long by 4 feet wide which can be difficult for one person to manipulate on a table saw unless you are fortunate enough to have a really large infeed outfeed table setup if your project is small enough you. But c mon this is an excuse to whip out your circular saw and go to town. Sure you could politely ask the nice people at the home store to do it.

No more trying to shove full sheets of plywood through a small job site tablesaw. Use your saw horses or any work bench to support the bulk of the plywood. How to break down a full sheet of plywood. Unless you have plenty of shop space i highly recommend buying only the amount of plywood you need for a project and break it down as soon as you can.

When i got my first track saw years ago it was an absolute game changer for my trim carpentry work. What i usually do is set up saw horses or in some cases my infeed table and my outfeed roller stands to support the plywood. It will eventually be a large storage cabinet 4 wide x 3 deep x 90 tall with five adjustable shelves inside and raised panel doors. If you are working in a garage like i am don t bother trying to build a rack for storing 4 x 8 sheet goods.

Cutting plywood and breaking down sheet goods is easy when you have the right tools. But for those first few years i was really only using the track saw to break down sheets of plywood into their rough parts which i would then run through the tablesaw for final sizing.