Breaking Down Plywood Sheets

Breaking down a full plywood sheet can be overwhelming but with these simple guides and a circular saw you can have it cut down in minutes so you can move on to building if you d like to check out some other helpful guides and beginner s tips head over to the getting started page for more.

Breaking down plywood sheets.

A diy friend showed me kreg s rip cut tool with a circular saw and i fell in love. 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. Use your saw horses or any work bench to support the bulk of the plywood. I normally work with solid wood glueing up the panels to make the sides top and base.

How to break down a full sheet of plywood. 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. No more trying to shove full sheets of plywood through a small job site tablesaw. Cutting plywood and breaking down sheet goods is easy when you have the right tools.

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. 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. 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.

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. Sure you could politely ask the nice people at the home store to do it.