Impromptu spoilboard

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I am preparing to trim a bunch of small plywood brackets and wanted a spoilboard that would leave me access to the threaded table holes. I was preparing to drill a grid of holes in a piece of 1/4" plywood and had the vague feeling that something like that already existed… Perf board! Here in the US, at least, perf board is pressed fiber board with a grid of 1/4" holes on 1" centers. About a minute on my bandsaw trimming a scrap piece and I had this

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You’re probably all saying “pfffft, whatever” but to me it was a big light bulb… :slight_smile:

Randy

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Yeah, using that as a spoilboard on a matching grid is an obvious idea — once one matches the twain.

I looked into that a while back and was interested to note that there’s a plastic variety available.

Two threads discussing various options and ideas: