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Rip Plywood Strips

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French cleat wall

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What happens here

Begin by taking a sheet of 3/4 inch plywood and cutting it into 3-inch wide strips. This can be accomplished using either a table saw for precision and ease with long cuts, or a circular saw with a straight edge guide for portability. The video uses a RIDGID table saw.

Goal: Cut plywood into uniform 3-inch strips

Tools and materials

  • Hearing Protection — Ear protection during sawing
  • Measuring Tape — Measuring the strip width for the saw fence
  • Safety Glasses — Eye protection during sawing
  • Table Saw RIDGID — Ripping plywood into strips
  • Plywood — The base material for the French cleat strips

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Do you want a tool wall that you can change whenever you want? Let's get after it. I'm going to start by ripping this 3/4 inch plywood into 3-in strips. You can either use a table saw or a circular saw. I'm going to go ahead and try the table saw first and see how that works. Now that we got our 3-in strips cut, we're going to put a 45 on them. I put my table saw to a 45 and I set it to about 2 and 1/2 inches on my fence.

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