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MITER JOINT sa MITER BOX sa MITER SAW sa MITER TRIMMER sa SPLINE MITER JOINT sa TABLE SAW ANGLE CUTTING xx WOOD JOINERY Half-lap miter joint combines the looks of a miter with the strength of a half-lap joint. How to cut the joint using a router and a template. Making blind mitered dovetail joints which combine the look of a miter joint with the strength of dovetails. Simple method for bisecting angles for mitering moldings. Miter biscuit-joint jig. A safe way to cut perfect biscuit slots in miter joints using a portable biscuit joiner. Tip on making several identical short work pieces with mitered ends by using a gauge to check the size. Band saw jig to cut miniature spline miters. Lock miters. This simple set-up process guarantees perfectly routed joints. Make invisible corner joints when installing a face frame on a cabinet by using a miter joint between the face frame and the cabinet side. Workshop geometry. Designing hoppers for use as planters, concrete forms, etc. They usually involve cutting miters and cross-sections which are larger at the top than at the bottom. Table saw jig to cut the slots for keyed miter joints. Tip on strengthening a miter joint by adding two exposed biscuit "keys" to the wrong side (back side) of the item. Mastering the art of wood joinery. Part 2. Preparation and cutting of miters, rabbets, cross-laps and dovetails. Installing finish trim. Master these basic cutting and installation techniques and you will be able to apply finish trim with expert accuracy. Cutting miters. Applying door casing and window trim. Installing baseboards. Using jigs and a router to cut a lot of double-angle miters with speed and accuracy. Tip: How to made the compound angle cuts found on the jacks of a gable. Tip: Use bamboo skewers (instead of nails or screws) to reinforce the mitered corner of a frame or molding that will need planing, carving, or routing. Tip on using a simple jig consisting of two mitered 2x4 pieces to cut an accurate 45-degree bevel on rubber cove base. Jig for making accurate measurements starting at the short point on a mitered piece of trim. Tip for clamping the splined miter joint without requiring a special miter clamp. Simple jig aids in routing the slots for splines in miter joints. Jointing decorative strips. Simple jig is used to sand accurate 90 or 45-degree miters on the ends of decorative wood strips which are going to be inlaid or used as decorative binding. Tip: How to calculate the correct angle to miter two pieces of plywood, of different thicknesses, so that their inside and outside edges will line up exactly. Spline-mitered joinery solves design and construction problems with leg-and-apron structures. How to cut miters and spline grooves with a router and a simple homemade jig. The scribed joint. Used to mask (hide) wood movement in molded frames. Router-based method for cutting the slots in splined miter joints guarantees an accurate fit. Three decorative joints. (1) Outlined dovetails. (2) Outlined mortise-and-tenon slipjoint. (3) Decorative splined miters. A simple jig for routing blind spline slots in spline-mitered frames. Making a blind finger joint. A mitered joint hides the router-cut fingers. Joining molding. Coping with corners and complex miters. Laying out compound joints. Determining the compound-angle cuts needed to join splayed sides. Jig for cutting biscuit slots in mitered frames using a table-mounted router. Router jig for cutting bevels or miter joints on large plywood panels. How to neatly miter veneer edge strips at the corners of a carcase. Technique and simple jig for making perfect picture-frame miters on a radial arm saw. Jig for coping miter joints using a router. Method for using a router table and slot-cutting bit to cut the key slot to reinforce a miter joint. Improved technique for making a staved cylinder involves cutting the miter joint using a dado blade. Shooting board which doubles as a bench hook facilitates the making of perfect miter joints using a hand plane and handsaw. Tip on reinforcing a miter joint with a biscuit cut in half. Adjustable jig for making picture frames speeds up the marking of miter lines. Strong, no clamp-up corner joints for case work. A unique way to achieve perfect table sawn miters on large panels. The panels are then assembled using glue and clear packaging tape (in place of clamps). Easy wood joints and how to make them without power tools. Covers butt joints, miter joints, lap joints, rabbet joints, dados, and mortise-and-tenon joints. Tip on constructing a false miter joint between a crest rail and post on a spindle chair. Mitering for a flush tabletop. Three-way miter joint between the legs and top rails of a table is based on a feature found in Ming dynasty furniture. Two Chinese tables balance delicacy and strength. Drawing details the combination miter and mortise-and-tenon joints which lock together the corners of the top frame with the delicate legs. Chart of settings (in degrees) to be used for compound miters and bevels & miter. Tip on using two separate miter gauges when cutting miters on a table saw. Shortcut method of mitering corners on screen molding that is faster than using a miter box. Table of saw-tilt and miter gauge setting for compound angles from 5- to 60-degrees in 5-degree increments. Photo shows proper method for making the cuts. How to repair a miscut miter when making picture frames. How to cut rabbet-miter joints. Step-by-step instructions for the simple, locked, and housed style joints. How to calculate radial arm saw angles for compound miters. Use for regular shapes from 3 to 15 sides. Tip on reinforcing the corner miter joints found on lightweight flat and narrow frames with half biscuits installed on the backside. Tip shows how to use slightly inaccurate 45-degree cuts to form a 90-degree miter joint. Make perfect miters. An inexpensive sanding disc turns a table saw into a precision miter machine for making picture frames. Layout board with framing blocks outline the shape of the finished frame. Rough-cut pieces of molding are then fitted perfectly using the sanding process. Your guide to cutting perfect miter joints. Includes a miter-cutting jig for your table or radial arm saw. Also includes several ways to reinforce your miter joints using splines or dovetail keys. Tip: Use a corner clamp as a "third hand" when assembling mitered joints. Cabinet cleanup tricks. (1) How to make a molding flush with a surface. (2) Sanding molding profiles. (3) Correct a mismatched miter. On-the-money miters. How to cut them and clamp them like a professional. Looks at measuring, cutting diagrams, cutting jigs, clamping jigs, etc. Decorative reinforcements (keys) for miter joint, box joint, edge joint, etc. How to fabricate corner keys, dovetail keys, box keys, rounded-finger keys, and bow tie surface splines. How to cut a compound miter on a table saw without using a backing block. Compound miters. How far to tilt the blade and how much to angle the miter gauge when cutting compound miters on a table saw. Includes a setup chart for bevels from 5- to 60-degrees (in 5-degree increments) on 4, 5, 6 and 8 sided frames. Technique for cutting the miter joint where an arched molding meets a straight molding. Easy-to-make and great-looking dovetail keys add character and strength to mitered corners. Uses a simple jig that mounts to a miter gauge that slides in the miter slot of a router table. Tip on assembling a mitered work piece (from which an oval-shaped frame will be cut) by installing pocket-hole fasteners in the waste area of each joint. Chamfer bits. How to cut accurate miters of 11.25, 15, 22.5, 30 and 45-degrees using a table-mounted router instead of a table saw. How to cut and clamp a miter and spline joint. How to cut the locked miter joint. An excellent joint for joining hardwood plywood. Permits a clean, strong joint with no end grain showing. Mathematics of miters. Charts and formulas look at the miter angles needed to fabricate frames with 3,4,5,6, and 8 equal sides. How to cut and use miter and spline joints. Ideally suited to such projects as multi-sided (polygon) frames where each side is a short, mitered piece of wood to be joined to a matching piece. Tip: How to square up the two sides of a mitered octagonal frame prior to joining them together. Shop notes for miter and spline joinery. Cutting miters, cutting spline grooves, cutting splines, gluing up mitered frames, etc. Joinery and molding tips. Cutting quarter-round stops. Stopped molding cuts. Routing rabbets. Compound miters. Miter with open spline. How to cut an accurate 22.5-degree miter on a table saw. How to fabricate a miter joint with dovetail keys. Includes an adjustable holding jig for cutting the dovetail slots using a table-mounted router. Burnishing a miter. How to conceal slight gaps at the outside corner of a miter joint by burnishing both faces to crush the fibers together. Tip on reinforcing a miter joint by bridging with a large wooden plug. Cutting compound miters on a table saw. How to determine both the blade tilt and miter gauge angle to accomplish the desired result. Alternate method for checking a mitered corner for square using a try square. Three tips for cutting and fitting of small mitered molding strips (such as those used to hold panels in a raised-panel entry door). Step-by-step technique for cutting three-way miters. Stave construction for making multi-sided wooden cylinders or containers. Tricks to cutting the mitered angles just right. Cutting perfect miters for picture frames on a table saw, frame assembly, and reinforcing large frames. Improved method for cutting the miter joint when doing mitered-stave construction. This method overcomes the tendancy of the staves to slip when being clamped to form a six-, eight-, or twelve-sided work piece. Repair mitered corner joints which are open on the outside edge by rabbeting the corner and inserting a hardwood strip. The elusive perfect miter joint. Some tips on making "perfect" picture-frame corner joints. Jig for cutting matching miter joints on a radial arm saw. Simple sanding block and technique to sand a mitered corner without leaving the telltale crossgrain sanding marks on the mating miter. How to make a tongued miter joint. Joints in joinery. Part 1. Chart shows 38 styles of joints used to join boards flush at the edges or at an angle (mitered). An aid to making the secret mitre dovetail joint. Tip on cutting splayed bevels. A sliding carriage for a router table is used to cut 45-degree miters on decorative cabinet-door frames without fouling the mortises or tenons. Jig for cutting slots in the mitered face of narrow stock. Works in conjunction with a table-mounted router. Tips on cutting compound miters when fitting dado rails around a stairway. Tip: How to use the reflection from your tenon saw to determine a 45-degree angle, without need for a miter box. Mitered corners are reinforced and decorated by installing keys (splines) across the miter. The finished appearance is similar to that of a box joint. Where scribe and miter meet. Solutions to the eternal problem of joining moldings at mitered corners. Router jig for cutting the grooves for splines in splined miter joints. Tips on making the splines and clamping the joint. Jig for cutting compound miters on a band saw. The mystery of pyramids and related obelisks. How to determine the edge miter joint angles when making pyramid shapes from sheet material. Jigs and jee-jaws for the cabinetmaker. (1) Bench hook. (2) Shooting board. (3) Miter shooting board. (4) Miter trap. (5) Miter box. (6) Small router table. Tip shows how to make a jig for sanding cut miters with a sanding block. Miter joints. How to measure, cut, fit, and assemble both splined and doweled miter joints. How to cut the plain rabbet-miter joint using a table saw. How to cut the locked miter joint on a table saw. The beginning woodworker. Making miter joints with hand tools. The beginning woodworker. Flat miter joints with the table saw and router. The beginning woodworker. Making mitered corner lap joints. Both handtool and table saw methods. The finger joint spline. A right-angle spline is made using finger joints. This spline is then used to strengthen a miter joint. Four splines at a time are made by fabricating a finger jointed box and then sawing into four sections. Decorative joinery. How to make the dovetail key butt-miter joint. Cutting the locking miter joint on your table saw using three basic setups. Lock miter joint is a good looking right-angle joint that is strong, simple, and appealing to the eye. Requires use of a special router bit. Technique for preventing damage to plywood mitered corners involves inserting a solid-wood corner strip. Good miters aren't good luck. How to cut miters accurately using a hand saw miter box, shooting block and a plane. How to use a table saw to make six common cabinet cuts: (1) cope cuts, (2) mitering, (3) box joints, (4) taper cuts, (5) half-lap joints and tenons with true shoulders, and (6) cutting duplicates from a long strip. Tip: Jig for cutting spline slots across the corner of picture frames. Router jig to cut "false" dovetails (butterfly joints). They are used to strengthen a miter joint and make it more decorative. Modified miter joint is stronger than the standard 45-degree miter. Making compound miters. Accurate cutting is the secret. Charts and diagrams illustrate the correct cuts for 3-sided to 12-sided polygons. | |||||||||
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