Hi, I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. That whether you’re using a little small portable table saw like this one here or a minor box or a power saw. There are different ways you need to approach each of these with your material to get the best cut possible. I’ll show you some of the A, B, and C’s of it, let’s get to work,
When using a table saw, like with this piece of pre-finished flooring here, you have a nice finished side on this side and of course the unfinished side on this side. Whenever you’re running this through your table saw, you always make sure your finished side is up. Why is that? The rotation of the blade is what dictates where you’re finished is. Here’s you’re nice finished and down here is not. Now you can see as the saw comes into the cutting motion as it touches your material, the saw is pulling the grain of the wood in the cut down in from the finished in toward the bottom. Now of course down here at the bottom it could fray it out a little bit and fuss it up, leaving not as a cleaner cut as the top.
Actually the opposite holds true when you’re using your power saw. This is the good side of a piece of wood, it’s down here in the bottom, and why do we put it down there when we’re using the power saw? Because when the power saw rotates, it draws the blade from your good finished side up to it will give you a little bit more of a fuzzy cut as it exits the material.
When using a minor saw on the material, you want the face of the material, the good part, the show part of the material to be forward because it’s similar to the other two. As the saw blade pulls into the material, it’s pulling the grain back from the finished side.
We’re cutting the finished side forward, you get a nice clean sharp edge of the cut here but, if you flip it over, you can see where that saw comes out of the back side of the wood. It leaves these fuzzy little granules, that aren’t what you want to have to deal with on the finished side of the project.
So there you go, half the battle is having the right tools for the job, the other half of the battle is understanding how they work and how they’re going to affect the material of your cut.
I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop, I hope these tips work out and if this wasn’t interesting to you, please check out our home channel. We have many other videos there. Thank you.
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