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   nathan_wegemer | Jan 25, 2002 09:46am | #1

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   I did four sets complete and ready to install in today. I'm doing the next twenty in one shot, with winder packages, so I'm especially trying to lose the pattern scribe and free-cut with the circular saw method.
   A template with a fence to register it at the bottom of the stringer? Are jacks that hold a number of stringers on edge to gang-cut the beginning of the cuts accurate? That method seems like you'd have to double-handle the stock to get the cuts finished.

   Just wondering out loud.

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   jim_"crazy_legs"_blodg | Jan 25, 2002 05:44pm | #2

   *How about a plywood template that the table of your skilsaw would ride against? There would be a fence screwed to the back that would bump up against what will be the bottom of the stringer. You would clamp the template to the 2 x 12 and make your cuts. Then, while you clamp and cut the next stringer, a helper finishes the cuts with a jig saw or hand saw, and puts two more 2 x 12's up on the sawhorses at the other end of the stack. Two sets of saw horses, one at each end of the stack, helper slides stock onto horses crown toward outside, then sets finished stringers on dunnage for forklift. That could go pretty smooth, huh? That fence on the template might not be continuous, so the template would work on slightly crowned 2 x 12's too. Is this the kind of tewmplate you're thinkin' of?