Fein MultiMaster as Mini Chop Saw? Possible?

[Bolster]

I have a Fein MultiMaster (like a Dremel Multi-Max or Rockwell SoniCrafter)...

...which I find very handy for remodeling projects on houses. I use it mostly as a plunge saw. It usually gets carried even when other saws stay in the shop due to size.

The other day I was having to cut some molding while remote and wished I had a way of turning my MultiMaster into an accurate little chop saw or at least use it with a miter box. Is this possible? Is there some attachment out there that I'm unaware of? Do you have any great ideas on how this might be accomplished?

I'm trying to figure out how I might attach the MultiMaster to some small hinge-action bracket that would allow me to guide it down a precise 90 and 45 degree angle, to cut relatively small bits of wood, PVC, ABS, and possibly soft metals.

The reason I'm bringing this up, is I've learned through experience to ask at GJ BEFORE I go off half-cocked and try to rig something up on my own.

 

[Bolster]

My idea here seems excessively crude, but it's the first thing that occurred:

Seems cumbersome and probably sloppy, but you see where I'm going. Basically trying to build a small chop-saw base with a clamp to hold the MM.

The base needs to be small and portable. Any good ideas?

 

[Danglerb]

I think I would skip the fancy stuff and look at some kind of guide plate for the blade to go through while you hold the multitool in your hand. If you need to do a LOT of chop saw work, buy a cheap little chop saw.

Goal is to efficiently make the cut you want cleanly, don't let the desire to make something that looks like a chop saw get in the way of that.

 

[brickboiler]

Fein does make this clamp attachment for mounting the tool to a bench. They also show it attached to some sort of drill press looking device. http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=21463

 

[Bolster]

I think I would skip the fancy stuff and look at some kind of guide plate for the blade to go through while you hold the multitool in your hand. If you need to do a LOT of chop saw work, buy a cheap little chop saw.

Goal is to efficiently make the cut you want cleanly, don't let the desire to make something that looks like a chop saw get in the way of that.

So, something more along the lines of a miter box? The miter box has the advantage of being space efficient and simple...but how to convert for use with the Fein?

Fein does make this clamp attachment for mounting the tool to a bench. They also show it attached to some sort of drill press looking device. http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=21463

Thats...interesting...! Videos here...

http://www.multimaster.info/en_uk/accessories/general-accessories/

 

[RKA]

Best I can come up with is to use a flush cut blade and several U shaped boxes with the corresponding miters on one end. These would serve as guides. Ideally though, they would have to match the width of the piece you intend to cut or they wouldn't work well. A top support (or bottom) would be needed to give you continuous support for the flush cut blade as it works it's way across. One issue is for round stock like PVC pipe, the flush cut blade doesn't have enough radius to cut all the way across. For a straight 90 degree cut you could rotate the stock, but that would require some fudging to rotate, line it up, cut, rotate, etc. But something like a 45 degree cut would be impossible. But when are you cutting something like PVC pipe at 45 degrees?

Anyway, this idea is worth exactly what you paid for it. It's basically using a template/jig to help guide the saw. I think anything involving clamping the Fein becomes unnecessarily complex quick.

 

[Bolster]

Like this, RKA? Two 3-sided boxes, one inverted over the other, possibly clamped on the backside? (Didn't illustrate a miter here, just a flush cut.)

 

[RKA]

Kinda, but just one U shaped box over the piece you're cutting. When I said several, I meant that they would each be mitered with your common angles, so you'd have a 90, 45 and possibly a 22.5. The issue is if you needed a slightly different one for bigger stock, then you're looking at 6, 9 or more of these jigs.