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# The Table Saw Gets Its Chance
- URL: https://seanation.org/the-table-saw-gets-its-chance/
- Published: 2024-07-31T13:56:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T14:25:35.000Z
- Description: I put the table saw to work cutting precise iroko and plywood components for Ikaroa, while laminating beam-through sides, floors and mast-knee supports. It earned its keep, even if a battery circular saw may eventually replace it.
- Author: Monika Matis
- Tags: Ikaroa, Tech, #story-ikaroa, #facebook-import

There are days when I use the table saw, seriously!  
Today was one of these days made much easier and much smoother because of this simple tool.  
I know many of you noticed it in the background in the past and probably wondered if I ever use this. To be truthful - not as often as I expected. But there are occasions when doing something different way is more complicated, more difficult or simply downright impossible (well, almost…) with different tools.  
I bought it long time ago, when I was facing cutting one inch thick iroko into two equal pieces of half inch thick iroko - all at 5 metres length. And then had to cut it precisely at length to make sure it fits the keels. It took 5 minutes to provide a perfect cut instead of half a day for a butchered one…

I have used it for many things which were simply faster that way. And today was it’s another chance to shine- cutting all the beam through floors at exactly 150mm wide strips of 9mm plywood. Yes, I could have used the jigsaw - after 4 years I’m quite good with it - but it would not be as straight as this. And as even.

It will be changed eventually for another tool - a battery powered circular saw. Simply because we can use battery tools much easier on the boat - and it takes 1/10th of the space :)

I’ve been laminating beam through sides today, later I’ll be laminating floors as well (as soon as the second layer of epoxy hardens enough on their bottom side - which in 34 degrees will happen quite quickly even with slow hardener!) and also glueing supports on mast knees. If everything goes well tomorrow I’ll start fitting beam through sides and floors.  
#tiki38 #theseanation #buildingwharram #allelectricboat

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