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Old 12-09-2020, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by villagetinker View Post
Assuming that your final cut dimensions are 'close' and NOT exact, I can cut your wood, my point is that the saw blade is 1/16 to 1/8 wide, so the cut in half pieces would be 1/32 to 1/16 inch smaller than you state.
Find the center of the board (put a straight edge from corner to corner and mark a line near the center (use tape if you don't want to mark up the board), then do the same this the other way. Assuming the board is square, put a piece of printer paper against the edge and mark the center on the paper and then move the paper to the top of the board and mark it there. If you center the blade to cut on the line it should be pretty close to even.