ear3
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I couldn't really think where else to put this, but moderators please feel free to move the topic if deemed appropriate.
So I'm going on vacation in a day or so, but when I get back there's a chance I might do an additional task for the art installation I've been working on for over a month now. The job would be cutting a series of 2x2 tiles for a drop ceiling in a rather large room -- maybe 300 tiles in total. Material would be some kind of 1/4 plywood, either hardwood veneer or perhaps even luan/underlay -- room is all oak, so we don't necessarily want to use the standard white foam ceiling tiles.
But I'm going to balancing a lot of things when I get back from vacation, my full time job being the most obvious one, and so I want to figure out whether I would even have time to do it.
The fastest way I can think of is to use my Seneca parallel guides, do all the rip cuts first, and then do the cross cut with the short rail, either with the MFT or direct on the cutting table.
Here's my rough estimate: let's say 5 minutes for both the rip cuts on a single sheet, that includes getting the sheet on and off the table. So if I have to make 300 tiles, that's 38 sheets of plywood, which equals 3 hrs 10 minutes for all the rip cuts. Then for the cross cuts, let's say 6 minutes for the 8 total cross cuts on a single sheet, which at that point would be in two long 2x8 strips, which equals 3 hrs 44 minutes. So that's slightly under 7 hours for the entire process. That does not account for breaks or other interruptions, of course, but still it seems possible that it could be done in a single, long day.
Do you think I'm under (or perhaps even over-) estimating the time it would take?
So I'm going on vacation in a day or so, but when I get back there's a chance I might do an additional task for the art installation I've been working on for over a month now. The job would be cutting a series of 2x2 tiles for a drop ceiling in a rather large room -- maybe 300 tiles in total. Material would be some kind of 1/4 plywood, either hardwood veneer or perhaps even luan/underlay -- room is all oak, so we don't necessarily want to use the standard white foam ceiling tiles.
But I'm going to balancing a lot of things when I get back from vacation, my full time job being the most obvious one, and so I want to figure out whether I would even have time to do it.
The fastest way I can think of is to use my Seneca parallel guides, do all the rip cuts first, and then do the cross cut with the short rail, either with the MFT or direct on the cutting table.
Here's my rough estimate: let's say 5 minutes for both the rip cuts on a single sheet, that includes getting the sheet on and off the table. So if I have to make 300 tiles, that's 38 sheets of plywood, which equals 3 hrs 10 minutes for all the rip cuts. Then for the cross cuts, let's say 6 minutes for the 8 total cross cuts on a single sheet, which at that point would be in two long 2x8 strips, which equals 3 hrs 44 minutes. So that's slightly under 7 hours for the entire process. That does not account for breaks or other interruptions, of course, but still it seems possible that it could be done in a single, long day.
Do you think I'm under (or perhaps even over-) estimating the time it would take?