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    Braywood: If you lay out all the gussets you can on the sheet stock in strips of the same size, like you would for a punchpress, then cut the strips in the table saw, you could then use the mitrebox to cut the individual gussets from the strip. Think of laying them out like pictures on a roll of film.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Point View Post
    Try to get your hands on an old, guillotine-style paper cutter like this one:

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    I made over 1000 little 1X2 gussets with one of these. Cut your 1.2M sheet into long strips with a utility knife, then use this to cut the strips down to size. Look for an old, heavy-duty one.
    The paper cutter works great. Here it is in action cutting the rib gussets for my Legal Eagle XL project:

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    Another vote for a paper cutter. For gussets and small parts it's really the best and easiest method. I have heard that a hose cutter (which is really a sharper version of pruning shears) works well but I haven't tried one.

    Chris

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