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neander miters

Bill Tindall, E. TN

>I don't recall seeing this topic discussed. I have been installing the multitude of molding on the 3 spice boxes, which of course requires miters on the corners. I made a simple wooden miter box but found it insufficiently accurate, or my ability to use it insufficiently precise. To get on with the project I fired up the table saw with a small thin blade and itty bitty very sharp teeth (some molding are very small).

So, how do you all cut moldings? I would have preferred the less-stress hand saw approach if I could have figured out how to guide the saw at 45.0 +/-0.2 degrees. (That, by the way, is the precision needed for a tight fit.)

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joel

>saw the miter - shoot with plane to perfect accuracy and fit.

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David Barnett

Same as joel; saw 'n' shoot

David Barnett

>For the larger stuff I use a Stanley #358 miter box with a big Disston saw. For smaller, just saw to the line on a bench hook, then shoot.

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tweaking

Ed Mulligan, Cape Cod

>Bill -

As Joel and David suggest, the shoot board is perfect for your miter work. If the angle has to be tweaked a bit, tape an index card paper shim on the fence. It goes behind the miter piece to increase the angle or at the far end of the piece to decrease the angle.

Ed

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Ellis Walentine

Here's how Toshio does it

Ellis Walentine

>Here is a shot of Toshio's young friend, Laure, working on fitting some very tiny pieces for a shoji screen. Each screen design has different miter angles on different parts of the starburst patterns. For each angle, Toshio has a simple shooting box with the appropriate angle cut on the end. One box can have two different angles. They cut the pieces by eye and then plane the miters perfect with the block plane shown here.

Perfect results, no thankless measuring of lengths and angles.

Ellis


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