Turn your circular saw into a precision cutting tool

Tools: Kreg Rip-Cut Circular Saw Guide Transcript: For this Cool Tools review Im going to show you the Kreg Rip-Cut.
It is a 32 guide for a circular saw.
Its great if you have a small workshop or no workshop.
If you have a table saw theres probably no reason to buy this.
But if you have a small garage like mine and you dont want to surrender the space and money to have a table saw this and a circular saw are an effective way to accurately break down sheets of wood. It comes in two pieces.
One is a universal adapter that can mount onto just about any circular saw including left handed ones.
This just screws onto the existing plate and I just leave mine on all the time. The other is this L-shaped aluminum ruler designed to hug and slide against the straight outside edge of your wood.
You latch the adapter plate onto the ruler measure out where you want your cut and make it happen using the edge of the board to guide your cut. Now there are two obvious limitations on this.
One is that the aluminum guide only extends out up to 24 inches.
The other is that youll need some kind of spoiler board if you want to cut all the way through your material. Alternatively you could buy a long metal guide track or even use a long 2x4 and clamp it down wherever you want and let that guide your cut.
But using the Rip-Cut theres no limit to the length of your cut especially with a battery powered saw.
Also if I want to rip another identical section theres no setup.
I just move back to the beginning. Even more important for me I dont have to store a big long metal track in my workshop.
This thing just hangs out of the way and its small enough I can just throw it in my back seat if I need to take it somewhere. So thats the Kreg Rip-Cut.
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