Good Morning Friends,

When you are starting in woodworking and the only saw you have is a sabre saw, how would you go about cutting a round table top without leaving splinters on the top edge of the circle?

Edited December 5, 20178 yr by Ron Dudelston
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Use a down stroke cutting blade. And/or tape the line with clear packing tape.

Flip it over and cut on the bottom side, sandwich it between some scrap plywood or such,

Cal

The cut line could be scored with a razor knife.

Cut from the back side, like Cal mentioned.

The back side cut would be my approach.

Route a profile on the edge after cutting the circle out...

cut from the bottom..

Change designs. 

Good Evening Fellows,

All good answers however here is WOODS answer from issue 247 on page 14,

 

Align the foot of the saw on the end of a hardboard base and mark the blade slot from the end and cut for "0" clearance slot and then measure from that slot to the desired radius and drill a hole for a finish nail to anchor the center of the cut. Then either screw the base to the saw base or attach with double sided tape.

 

This will allow for a splinter free cut both top and bottom of the workpiece.

 

Thank you all for your support.