The beveled tooth or crown tooth removes the material in the center of the cut while the flat top raker tooth follows behind removing material from the edges of the cut.
Cutting acrylic sheets with skill saw.
Score again and again as many as 10 or 12 times.
Lay the sheet on a flat surface and using a yardstick and a permanent marker or a grease marker measure and draw the.
The saw table should be free of dust and debris.
Don t move too quickly as you ll create a rougher edge but don t go too slowly as you can melt the plastic.
Cutting thick sheets of plastic to make straight cuts on thicker sheets of acrylic and polycarbonate plastic greater than inch thick you ll need to use a table saw or circular saw.
Push the acrylic through a table saw for a straight cut.
The only disadvantage that i see and you too will encounter that is the heat the plexiglass has a poor temperature resistance the thing that we will take into consideration when cutting plexiglass with circular saw or with any other tool.
Set the saw fence to the desired.
Materials needed to cut acrylic or plexiglass sheets acrylic sheet larger than the size of your project use a plastic laminate scorer to cut acrylic by hand use acrylic jigsaw blades to cut acrylic with a jigsaw use a 10 plastic cutting saw blade to cut acrylic on a miter saw or table saw use a 7.
The saw blade height should be only a half inch higher than the thickness of the acrylic sheet you are cutting.
For cutting acrylic the teeth of the saw blade should have the triple chip design where the cutting edge of every other tooth is beveled.
Use this rough guide for better results.
Push the acrylic through the table saw at a steady pace being sure to keep your fingers out of the way of the saw.
The plexiglas sheets have thicknesses that vary from 1 mm to 20 mm which is why we will adapt the cutting method according to the desired thickness.
Start at one edge of the mark you made.
Next hold the yardstick to the marked line and run the dull side of a utility knife along the yardstick to score the.
As the width of the acrylic increases the total number of teeth for every inch on your blade should decrease.
If unusual shapes or a curved edge is what you need a band saw is one of the best tools you can utilize to cut acrylic as it is more precise in cutting out shapes than a jigsaw.
