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Tips for Setting Up a Cutting Station for Wall Framing

Find out what key features you should include on your job-site to make framing progress more efficiently.

By Official Fine Homebuilding Post

As part of the Master Carpenter video series, Fine Homebuilding spent time with Massachusetts framer Mike Norton to find out his tricks and techniques for layout and assembly of walls. One of the elements of his production is to establish a cut station. To keep the project efficient and moving along, Mike assigns one guy to cut parts and feeds them to the rest of the crew who are assembling the walls.

There are a few key features of an efficient cut station, which include a long saw table with storage and stop blocks that make repeatable cuts easy and accurate. Another critical item is an accurate cut list of the framing components, their lengths and number, that need to be cut.

Watch the rest of this video series, Fast and Accurate Wall Framing, where you’ll learn some of Mike’s time-saving methods of establishing square and parallel plates, tricks for stud layout, great techniques for faster production framing, and how to raise and straighten out walls.

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  • Builders working on wall framing

    Master Carpenter: Fast and Accurate Wall Framing

    A pro builder shares time-saving tips for laying out, assembling, and raising walls.

  • Fast and Accurate Wall Framing: Episode 2 – Tips for Layout

    How to use a laser to set square and parallel wall plates, get good results from the chalk line, and tweak the rims of the deck.

  • wall framing assembly

    Fast and Accurate Wall Framing: Episode 3 – Assembly

    Great tips for stud layout on plates, assembling the wall, and cutting out openings.

  • Fast and Accurate Wall Framing: Episode 4 – Raise and Straighten the Walls

    Get the new wall up to vertical, and use temporary braces to straighten the wall’s top plate in preparation for upper joists or rafters.

  • Tips for Setting Up a Cutting Station for Wall Framing

    Tips for Setting Up a Cutting Station for Wall Framing

    Find out what key features you should include on your job-site to make framing progress more efficiently.

  • Fast and Accurate Wall Framing

    An experienced carpenter shows you his no-nonsense approach to building the structure of a house.

Previous: Framing Walls with 8-ft. Studs Next: Fast and Accurate Wall Framing: Episode 3 – Assembly

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  1. hfhcarp | Mar 25, 2016 08:14pm | #1

    Great vids. Mike Norton is a real pro and his framing tips are invaluable. It's instructional videos like these that make membership worth every penny.

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