Time to upgrade to a straight edge guide for my circular saw to cut large panels. For years I’ve been using an aluminum straight edge, but would be nice to have a system whereby the saw connects to a base and is then inserted into a slot in the straight edge track. Recenlty, in a thread someone recommended the EZ Smart Guide System by EurekaZone, Inc. . Any body got one? Any Feedback? Anyone use another one they’d recommend? I’m a righty who uses a left saw and EurekaZone doesn’t have one for a left side saw.
Thanks
MES
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Hello Doug.This is Dino,Your carpenter friend.
There many reasons as to why eurekazone don't offer a left smart base to be use with your left bladed saw on your right hand.
lets leave out the safety for today and talk about the use of a left bladed saw by a right hand person with any straight edge. Think how you will measure,the good side of the cut,the cutting line,and the whole 9 yards.
And you will see that is not EZSmart or practical or accurate or doable to say the list.
I know that PaulB and GWA they will start having fun again,but I want you to tell them why a right hand person can't use a left blade saw with any guide.
And again, lets leave out the SAFETY factor.
You guys want to have some fun with me? ...Think.
YCF Dino
Edited 7/27/2004 7:22 pm ET by YCFriend
Edited 7/27/2004 11:38 pm ET by YCFriend
YCF
I read the first sentence in your post and immediately thought of that thread that talked about the strait edge, didn't bother to read the whole thing, Not f#$king with you just didn't read the whole thing. And I definitely didn't recognize your name, from the other thread. Sorry!
Doug
Doug.
I don't get your (Not f#$king with you just didn't read the whole thing) reply But that reminds me that it only take 1.450 years for humanity to realize and understand the mind of Archimedes..So few more minutes its not so bad after all.
Lets say that you're standing in front of the panel and you're talking a measurement.
1.You will pull and hold the tape with your right hand and start from the far left side of the panel .2.You will mark your cutting line with your right hand and then place the right side of the 0 clearance guide on your cutting line at 0.(Unlike other edge guides that you need to off set your guide from the cutting line)
If you use a left bladed saw with a zero clearance guide ,were is your cutting line? At the left of the guide and you have to allow space for your blade. Then is not 0. It will be a nightmare to think and remember every time that you need to offset the guide and you will not get the antichip benefit of any 0 clearance guide.The other thing is that even if you use your left hand to hold the tape and place the guide on your drop off piece? It Just don't work.
Same problems again. sorry.
YCF Dino
hi M&D
I made the mistake to reply to Doug instead replying to you.And that may have upset Doug. I try to correct my post but it don't worked.
Never the less I hope you and others understand why the left bladed saw (by a right hand user) it will not work with any zero clearance guide.
And without even talking about the safety of the left bladed saw by right hand people.
YCF Dino
Dino
I made the mistake to reply to Doug instead replying to you.And that may have upset Doug. I try to correct my post but it don't worked.
No, I'm not upset, I'm not sure who I'm talking to though. I thought I upset someone with my response to the first post in this thread. Tried to clarify. I just didn't read the whole thing through, and posted the link to the other thread that had discussed this same thing.
Now if your not more confused let me know and I'll see if I can do better. :)
I'm left handed and all this talk of the right handed using the left handed saw is confusing the crap out of me. For years I thought they made one tool(circular saw) especially for the left hander, and now you righties have to go and screw with a good design!
Anyhow I'm OK on this thing, just not sure who I may have pizzed off. You guys sort it out. :)
Doug
To help keep things in perspective...
Lefties are in their right minds...
Righties are out in left field...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming.... WOW!!! What a Ride!
Exactly!
Ditto! Couldn't follow the bouncing ball between you and YC....what was that all about anyway?
MES
Its OK with me Doug.
Just trying to get things OK. Not right or Left, Just Ok.
Yesterday two more users switch saws. New in woodworking they end up with Skill 77 Magnum .They got upset at first when I told them this saw is not for you and it is made for PROs.
But when I told them to try to make one cut using the guide and call me back,they both call me later to let me know that they order new saws.
Not because of the base but because they don't know where to cut.
Where is the blade on your saw? left or right?
YCF Dino
Edited 7/28/2004 10:44 am ET by YCFriend
I'm left handed and have been using the same Milwaukee circular saw for going on 30 years now.
The blade is the traditional right of the motor, side winder not a wormdrive.
I have considered getting one of those Festool saws, have heard good things about them but I have always said that I will use this Milwaukee saw to the day that I quit this kind of work, I dont want the saw to get mad at me a quit working!
Doug
someone gave me one of those saw guides, brand new, but no structions. It has been on the top shelf of my trailor for years now. I have never even tried to use it. If someone gives me the basics of it I will try mine and tell you how it works.An inch to short. That's the story of my life !
bstcrpntr --- I hope to grow into this name.
Thanks. I'll check it out.
MES
i've used the veritas edge guide for years, it can be used with or without the optional screw on plate for a circ saw
it comes in 2 sections that fit together for a 100 inch cut or a single section for about 50 inches
the really nice thing that i like is that the guide can be clamped at any angle to an edge and also now 2 inch clamps are available for cutting doors
http://www.leevalley.com
caulking is not a piece of trim
Hi Steve. Have you seen the EZSmart?
Thanks, Steve.
MES
Mark- Chuck the straght edge and get yourself a Festool circular saw with a guide rail. You will wonder how you ever got along with out it!!
Thanks. I saw a demo of the tool last Winter and was impressed.
MES
Hi Doug.
The Festool it will work good for you because is right bladed saw.
Imagine that you cut something. Panel-trim... whatever.
Your left hand is free to hold the guide or the materials and your right hand to use the saw.
YCF Dino
Hi.
The EZSmart is bidirectional for many reasons.
And one of them is that a left hand person can have his right hand free to manage the guide and the panel. with a left bladed saw.
You can use the smart base with your left bladed saw but you will loose the antichip inserts AC-1 and AC-2.For now.
You still have antichip protection on one side of your cut. (same as all other 0 clearance systems). But it will not take to long until you realize that something is wrong.
YCF Dino