Milescraft Saw Track Guide

Let's talk about why you need a track saw. And then let's talk about specifically the Miles Craft tracks saw guide. So bunch of stuff going on with the tracks saw. If you don't have a table saw, a track saw gives you a really good way to accurately cut stuff down to size way better than doing a free hand cut. Even if you do want a table saw, like in my case, I use the tracks saw all the time to cut big stuff like sheets down to smaller, more manageable sizes. I can then more safely take to my table saw. The other big application for me with the tracks saw is straight lining edges. So that could be any board that's banana shaped. You could use a guide on it to cut a nice straight edge. More specifically, I use it a lot with live edge slabs where if I wanna pair two live edge slabs together, I use the tracks saw in order to cut a dead straight edge so that I can join those with the Miles Craft System. One of the beauties of it is that it uses your daily use CSA, which then fastens to this base. We're gonna talk more about that base in a second. The track itself is modular. So if you just have a short cut to do, you can use one piece of track, you can build it out and build it out. So I could fasten these two to these two and just go, go, go, go, go as long as you need the track to be for whatever it is that you're doing. The other thing we've got going here is that that component right? There was out further when this was brand new. One of the first things I did is cut through it. So you'll see the benefit to that. When I'm positioning the track, we get a payoff. Now with the sled, it's aluminum. So this is great. Everything in the kit is metal, it's a really low profile slot. So what that means is that when this sits on top of this, it's not costing me a bunch of capacity from my circ saw and going back to that live edge slab thing. That's where that's really gonna pay off. When you're cutting thick material, you wanna be able to get as much capacity out of the saw as you can. So because miles craft kept this base thin and the track thin, it gives us as much as much capacity as we can get. Now the way the system starts to come together if on this melamine, I put a line up here at my edge and then I put another line down there at that edge. That's where I want my cut to be because of the way that component works to position the track. All I have to do is align that red strip with my line and the red strip with my line. And I'm there. What I'm doing here cutting at this angle is another thing I really like about tracks saws and I use them for a lot frequently, which is if I want to make a cut that's not parallel to an edge or perpendicular to an edge at some kind of an angle. Uh tracks saw provides a really, really easy way to do that. Now, the fact that I'm about to cut in melamine is not an accident. I did that on purpose because melamine is pretty unforgiving when it comes to chipping. So what I wanted to do was get us set up on melamine so that we can really have a good look at the cut quality off of this. And it's another benefit to that component is that it's gonna protect the sheet on the up cut side of the cut so that we don't get a lot of chipping really important when you're working with stuff like melamine laminated materials. If you're cutting a door to final length, cutting anything that's got any kind of delicate surface. Now, let's skid that track out of the way a little bit and there you can really see the sharp corner, the cut quality that we got in that melamine. So overall miles craft tracks, saw guide is a really nice setup, modular good capacity and makes use of your everyday soa.