What do you use to cut Aluminum Diamond Plate (Tread Plate)?

I saw on TV where they used a circular saw. Do you need a special metal cutting blade?

I have a fancy wood/metal barstool that does not fit too well in the kitchen island in our new home. The legs of the barstool are made up of metal probably hollow steel. I need to shorten the legs of the stool by about 3 inches. What can I use to get this accomplished? Is there any reasonable miter saw (blade) that can cut thru metal. I know this is a newbie question but I am clueless.

LOML wanted some wooden curtain rods for our front windows. Problem is, they only came 8' long & the window was 9' + to outside of casing. So I needed to splice 2 rods together to make the length. I'm using a splined rod, so it has to align fairly straight. Here's how I built a jig to line bore the rods for a dowel glue up:

First, I took 4 pieces of PW 10" x 10" and cut a 'v' notch in the center that coincided with the height of the bed tube on my Craftsman lathe. I then cut a dado in each piece to spline them together & drilled leveling screw holes in the 4 base points.


After that I squared the bases with the lathe bed & spotted register points on the bases. The upper supports were then registered to the base by placing the drill bit back into the thru hole drilled at the spindle center & sliding the v up to it. A notch was then made in the bottom of the upper support to clear the bed tube & the base v was lowered for larger stock.



Looks like this will have to be a 2 parter, as it's taking soooooo long to upload these photos. I'll see you guys tomorrow.

Don't know if this is an old clip or not:

It's not in English, and I highly doubt it's real, (basically impossible), but you've got to admit it's pretty cool. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFKPylk2gQo