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Step 4Step 1: Buy and Rip the boards.
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After buying your 2x4s (one 8ft board per 4x8 drywall panel)...
You'll first need to arrange a way to slice (rip) a mitered cut longways through an 8ft length of 2x4.
Recommended Easy and Completely Non-Dangerous Way: Go to your local lumber yard and ask them to cut the boards for you. If you buy the wood there too, you can get it all done in one shot for just a small fee. (note: Lowe's and Home Depot cannot do this cut)
What to tell them: "I want to rip each these boards once down the center, mitered at 25 degrees." Show them with your hands how it should be cut, and ask them how much they would charge.
As they cut the boards, set them aside as matched pairs. Tape or tie them together.
If you have to be DIY about it:
Here are the essential steps of the board-ripping stage:
1) Set your power saw to miter at about 25 degrees.
2) Adjust your cutting line so that the mitered cut will rip the board in half evenly.
. . . (For 25 degrees, that works out to be 2" from the right)
3) Rip the board longways, leaving two trapezoidal pieces.
4) Set aside the boards as a matched pair.
Remember that you'll be using matched halves of wood that won't even be touching each other directly, so don't fuss too much about accuracy.
If all of this seems obvious and easy to you, ie. "you know what you're doing", go for it. Since this instructable is not a power saw lesson, if anything about setting up and using the power saw is unclear to you, I highly recommend getting acquainted with the staff at the local lumberyard.
After buying your 2x4s (one 8ft board per 4x8 drywall panel)...
You'll first need to arrange a way to slice (rip) a mitered cut longways through an 8ft length of 2x4.
Recommended Easy and Completely Non-Dangerous Way: Go to your local lumber yard and ask them to cut the boards for you. If you buy the wood there too, you can get it all done in one shot for just a small fee. (note: Lowe's and Home Depot cannot do this cut)
What to tell them: "I want to rip each these boards once down the center, mitered at 25 degrees." Show them with your hands how it should be cut, and ask them how much they would charge.
As they cut the boards, set them aside as matched pairs. Tape or tie them together.
If you have to be DIY about it:
Here are the essential steps of the board-ripping stage:
1) Set your power saw to miter at about 25 degrees.
2) Adjust your cutting line so that the mitered cut will rip the board in half evenly.
. . . (For 25 degrees, that works out to be 2" from the right)
3) Rip the board longways, leaving two trapezoidal pieces.
4) Set aside the boards as a matched pair.
Remember that you'll be using matched halves of wood that won't even be touching each other directly, so don't fuss too much about accuracy.
If all of this seems obvious and easy to you, ie. "you know what you're doing", go for it. Since this instructable is not a power saw lesson, if anything about setting up and using the power saw is unclear to you, I highly recommend getting acquainted with the staff at the local lumberyard.
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