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All the issues described previously relate to the direct impacts of furniture manufacture (from the obtaining and processing of raw materials to their treatment to produce furniture pieces and through to the assembly of furniture). However, furniture is a product with a relatively long life span. From the perspective of the environment and resource use, long life span is an important parameter. A product that can be used for a longer period of time will need to be replaced less often, which has an overall positive effect on the environment: less usage of raw materials, less pollution related to production, and less waste. This is especially the. | A Circular Saw in the Furniture Shop YOU ARE HERE Fine Woodworking Home Skills Techniques A Circular Saw in the Furniture Shop Entire Site From the pages of Fine Woodworking Magazine A Circular Saw in the Furniture Shop For cutting sheet goods in tight quarters this carpenter s tool used with a sacrificial table and dedicated cutting guides produces joint-quality cuts with ease by Gary Williams Contractors couldn t live without the portable circular saw but we of the warm dry furniture shop tend to leave it on the same shelf as the chainsaw. Great for building a deck but far too crude for quartersawn oak. Necessity has a way of teaching us humility however. I ve been a sometimes-professional woodworker for nearly 30 years but somehow I have never managed to attain the supremely well-equipped shop. I work alone in a no-frills two-car garage that I share with a washer a dryer a water heater and a black Labrador. My machines are on the small side and I lack the space for large permanent outfeed and side extension tables for my tablesaw. Perhaps you can relate. Under these conditions cutting a full sheet of plywood can be a very challenging operation. Even if you have your shop set up to handle sheet goods with ease perhaps you ve run into similar difficulties cutting plywood and lumber accurately on job sites and installations. The solution May I suggest the humble circular saw Cutting lumber and plywood with a handheld circular saw is nothing new. You ve probably done it before with varying degrees of success. You get that 4x8 sheet up on the sawhorses mark your cut line rig up some kind of straightedge and cut. Trouble is in the instant before the cut is complete gravity happens and you are presented with an entirely new challenge. Now you have two pieces that either want to collapse in the middle or fall off the end. Meanwhile the scrap you used as a straightedge bowed a little during the cut and it wasn t quite long enough to begin with so the last few inches of .