Homemade Vinyl Siding Cutting Table

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Homemade vinyl siding cutting table. Circular saw cutting jig for vinyl siding. Lay the vinyl siding on a flat table or workbench. To make you faster and more efficient we added material stops for desired length and memory stops for the desired angle pitch. Follow these steps on how to cut vinyl siding with a circular saw.
Last night it was my 1984 van mark trim a brake now its my homemade siding cutting table. Failing to do this can result in your circular saw cutting into the workbench or table beneath the siding itself. You should position the siding so that the cutting line is hanging off the edge for obvious reasons. First lay a strip of vinyl siding onto a flat and clean working table.
When making longitudinal cuts score with a knife and break along the score line. Homemade vinyl siding and soffit cutting jig constructed from lumber and steel. Place that strip of vinyl siding so that the piece and the line you want to cut are slightly off the. Make crosscuts on vinyl siding using a circular saw but you should install a vinyl cutting blade to minimize chip out.
The trim a table 50 was the original siding saw table designed to accurately cut vinyl fiber cement and many other siding materials. Making a siding cutting table is a project that any diy er can accomplish without many tools or much experience. Use tin snips or a rotary tool to make curved cuts. This type of tool sometimes referred to as a cutting jig is helpful for cutting straight lines with a hand held circular saw because it gives the cutter a guide to push or pull the circular saw in a straight line.
With a pencil and measuring tape mark. The cuts can be done by hand with a set of tin snips but squeezing the snips 5 6 times per cut can get really tiring and leaves a somewhat jagged. Intended for utilization with a circular saw. I recently replaced the old weathered aluminum siding on my house with maintenance free vinyl siding.