Re: [bolger]

> Surface sems almost brittle when cutting and prone to slivering.
>
> I need some suggestions on sawing to a curved line using a 7" skilsaw.

Will

> the 7" skilsaw blade make the curve easily? I usually end up doing a lot

of

> sanding after the fact. Perhaps the answer for this one is to build the
> Teal and Zephyr whose sides have no curvature.

From my experience anyway, you can cut very nice curves with a Skil saw. I
use a thin plywood blade. It has a lot of small teeth with a small offset
and is sold as a cabinet grade blade. Go slow and it seems to work well
enough.

I've done a lot of cutting on the Meranti plywood I have which is in the
same family as Luan and the power planer will splinter it up but the Skil
saw with the fine tooth plywood blade makes a very smooth cut with no
splinters.

Jeff