"Renata" wrote in message

Just got done cutting about 20 sheets or so of ply for kitchen
cabinets. Now that I'm nearly done (cutting, not the kitchen), I
hear this and pause to think, would that have been a better
alternative.

For the task you describe above, IMO you made an excellent decision by
resisting the temptation.

Providing you batch cut your cabinet panels/parts on a well setup table
saw/fence system, you are going to end up with a MUCH better chance of
SQUARE, identically dimensioned cabinets, than if you had cut each part of
like length and width individually with a circular saw, regardless of the
quality/accuracy of said circular saw.

Just the act of multiple measurements/setups is guaranteed to result in some
error, and measurement errors have a habit of accumulating.

By batch cutting on a table saw/fence system you reduce this phenomenon to
almost nil because all the parts are the same, regardless of whether their
final measurement is precisely what the plans call for.

And, by starting off with a SQUARE cabinet, you are going to save an
inestimable amount of time in installation and, VERY importantly, getting
your drawers, drawer fronts, and cabinet doors to fit properly without a lot
of extra work.

I once built cabinets without a good table saw and there is no circular saw
in the world that would make me voluntarily go back to that way of working,
for that type of work.

As usual, and depending upon what you do and how much time you have on your
hands, YMMV.

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