Hi All,
I am working on carpentry on my shed. I have water damage in some areas on the bottom edge of the plywood siding I put on my shed years ago. What I decided to do was to make what amounts to a drip edge along the bottom of the siding to keep water away from the vulnerable bottom edges. I am making these out of 1X4s and will paint them and install them over the bottom edges. They will also seal the already damaged areas, once I caulk them.
I made the prototype from a piece of Western Cedar picket fencing that I had using saws and planes, 10 cuts on each piece, although 6 of the cuts are pretty short. Each piece of 1X4 had to be run lengthwise through the table saw 4 times. I have vertical divider battens ever 2 feet covering joints in the yellow pine vertical siding so each I used a hand saw to cut each piece to an oversized length, to be cut to fit later. The bottom line is I had 20 pieces 24" long, and 2 pieces about 18" long.
What this amounts to is a total of 172 running feet of table saw cut total length.
Point is, given how long it took to make the prototype by hand, the table saw saved many hours of hand saw work and plane work.
If you do much in the way of carpentry, keep your table saw, even if you are becoming a bigger percentage Neander, like I am.
Regards,
Stew