Questions tagged [miter-joint]
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Beveled edges on melamine MDF
I'd like to make some nice looking speaker boxes. The only material I have access to is melamine MDF. I don't have a table saw, so I get it cut at the store.
I want to bevel the edges so the corners ...
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How would you make these brackets from Fine Woorking's Modular Wall Unit plans?
I'm a beginner woodworker, but I'm intrigued by these plans for a Modular Wall Unit from Fine Woodworking. They're outside my skill range but could be a fun challenge.
The plans are pretty detailed, ...
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Problem cutting corner joints on specific skirting boards
Update: I went back to store and they told I will need to by plugs for corners. I returned these skirtings and now back to regular skirtings which work with miter and coping.
I am using this skirting: ...
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Why does my miter saw cut 45 degree angles differently?
I am a very amateur woodworker that's just getting started using my DWS 779 miter saw. My recent projects have been making bird houses with flat bottoms that have a 2" wall surrounding the floor....
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How is this weight rack joined or fastened?
I'm trying to recreate the weight rack shown in this photo and I'm curious how top A-frame like section and the section where the bottom of the 'A' meets the base are joined/fastened.
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Doweled miter joint vs doweled butt joint
I am going to be making a box to store full milk bottles outside.
I was going to make a frame using miter joints, as I have a miter saw. However, I didn't think the joint would be strong enough, so I ...
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Strengthened leg miter joint with spline [key]
I'm building a coffee table with legs that are sub-assembled with a miter joint. See photo. The plans call for a Domino or dowels in addition to a spline [edit: key, see link below] for added strength....
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I'd like to make 3" thick table legs using 3/4" oak veneer core plywood. Will this design work?
I'm designing a red oak table with 3" thick legs. I haven't found anywhere local where I can source 3" thick red oak boards, and the cost would probably be prohibitive anyway. So I thought I'...
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How to join miter cuts for picture/sign frame? [duplicate]
I have some 1x2 project boards for making a frame. The frame will hold a painted sign on Masonite.
I am uncertain the best method for joining the miter cuts and was hoping for suggestions. Wood glue ...
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What are the advantages of coping a joint vs. mitering?
I've generally mitered joints and very rarely coped them in trim or molding, and have been able to achieve an appearance I was satisfied with.
But "traditionally," coped joints seem to have ...
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Miters on window casings shrank with cold weather. How do I fix this?
Last winter I started replacing the casings on the doors and windows in my house and have continued this off and on over the summer and fall. When the weather turned colder this fall, the miters on ...
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Mitered Corner with Glue and Pins vs Butt Joint with Glue and Pocket Holes
Making a frame using 1"x4" wood. Exposed ends are not a concern. Which would be a stronger joint, a mitered corner with glue and 1" pins (2 from each side), or a butt joint with glue ...
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How do I calculate a miter angle?
See the image below:
When I lay this out in Fusion, I can get the angles but I can't figure out how to calculate it mathematically.
The goal is to have the angled stretcher fully contact the upper 45&...
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How to make compound cuts for struts in a icosahedron?
I'm making a dodecahedron and an icosahedron from struts of wood with compound mitre cuts. I have a compound mitre saw. I've made some test joints and the dodecahedron joints seem fine:
while the ...
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How can I replicate this joint?
The picture looks like simple miter but how can I make this a strong miter myself?
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Is hide glue suitable for gluing together wooden picture frames?
I would like to glue together the mitred ends of some beechwood, using hide glue. My concerns are ...
Is hide glue strong enough?
Does hide glue last? Are there any known instances the glue starts ...
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Fill baseboard gaps after installing wood vinyl floors
Recently we removed the carpet from our living room/hallway and installed peel-and-stick vinyl flooring. Now there is a 1/4 inch gap visible throughout the room. We're considering our options to fill ...
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Reinforcing endgrain to long grain joint in thin stock, without visible splines?
I'll be building a small box soon, and one of the things I'll be drawing inspiration from is this photo I found online:
I like the leg design of this box a lot, but it occurs to me that this is ...
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How can I secure a depth stop on a mitre saw
I have a Metabo double tilt sliding mitre saw with a depth stop. I've been using the depth stop on the saw and a hand chisel to create lap joints. Although this has not been very successful as the ...
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How to get flush molding joints?
I have difficulty getting mitered moldings to have a flush surface.
Typically they get nailed into the underlying structure of the house, so any uneveness, which there inevitably is, translates to ...
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Securing Liner in Wooden Box
I've built the wooden box below. The plans for it called for a thin liner with mitered corners that would hold its position within the surrounding walnut frame with a friction fit.
I think the liner ...
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Angled cuts without miter saw or miter box?
I'm only just starting out on basic woodworking projects as a side hobby, and I don't have many tools. But a bigger problem is that I live in an apartment and don't have the room for a fancy workshop ...
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How to tighten up a miter joint in a casing
I am planning on building a block that is about 16" square to mount an exterior light. The block is rimmed with a 4" casing (sometimes called a "molding"). The casing is 3-7/8" wide and 1" high at the ...
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How to prevent short off-cuts from flying everywhere?
I am mitering some 21" boards for picture frames using a tablesaw. The first cut leaves a small off-cut to the right of the blade. Sometimes it goes flying, or even gets caught between the blade and ...
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Would a dovetail key(s) in a beveled (mitered) chest panel be adequate strength for a larger box?
I'm building a hope chest for my daughter out of cherry, and wanted to use dovetails to join the panels. My hand-cutting skills aren't quite up to snuff for a fine detail like through dovetails, so I'...
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How to make a mitre cut along the width of a board with hand tools
I'd like to cut a miter along the width of a wide board using hand tools. I've searched online and have not found any resources so maybe I'm using incorrect terminology.
Say I have a board that is 12 ...
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What knock down hardware can I use on this platform bed frame?
Basically, I want to be able to make the platform of this bed easy to take apart, because I'd like to be able to easily move it by myself. I'd like knock-down fasteners to be used in a way that the ...
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Wood movement with L-shaped mitred leaning shelf
I'm doing a built-in for a closet. The closet is over the stairs so its front is sloped. I created an L shaped front and shelf from solid maple. The bottom foot or so is up against the wall that I can ...
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Copycat furniture legs
Looking for advice on achieving copycat look of the metal leg X-base; gold and marble table pic.
My skill set and budget doesn't allow for welding or purchasing custom base. Hoping to achieve the ...
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Technique for mitering X or Cross onto door
I hate asking this here as I am sure it is a silly question for most of you, but I am new to woodworking and I am unable to find the correct combination of words in my google search to get the answer ...
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Coping Saw Angles
I’m remodeling a couple of rooms and coping the baseboard joints. For the most it’s going well, especially after getting new blades for the coping saw! The problem is the fireplace walls are not set ...
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Is there any way to join/seal large exterior mitre joints such as on a bay window sill so that they don't open up?
As per the title, I work at a conservatory manufacturer and as such we often have large bits of hardwood (up to around 56x220mm section) which need to be joined with a mitre, such that the larger face ...
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Dining table with multiple miter cuts
I am trying to recreate the dining table shown in the attached image. I have been able to figure out the general structure and recreated it in google sketchup. However, I am unable to come up with a ...
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getting edge of plane square to sole for shooting
I just finished putting together a shooting board and have noticed that none of my hand planes have sides which are square to the sole (Stanley/Bailey #4 w/ corrugated sole, #5 1/4, #6, Wood river low ...
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Is a quality miter gauge precise enough for cutting picture frames?
I am thinking buying one of these https://www.amazon.com/Incra-MITER1000-18T-Miter-Miter-gauge/dp/B000051WSE/ref=sr_1_5?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1483284237&sr=1-5&keywords=incra+miter+gauge
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Can miter lock joints be made without a routing table?
I'm planning to build a structure of about 1.2m x 1m x 0.5m (specifically it's a 1:6 doll house) in 12mm (half-inch) ply and don't want to use internal square-section to support the corners, because ...
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Weight bearing for a loftbed and wood only joints
I'm planning on making a loft bed, and I now got a plan and I'm working on the details.
The measurements I'm going for is 1700(start of the top beam)x1700x2100mm. The main beams are 98x98mm, middle ...
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Cutting tight miter joints for a frame around an existing object
I recently finished most of a practice project (a large lap desk). It looks like this so far:
I made a ton of mistakes but the only one I can't figure out how to fix next time is the frame around it, ...
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Perfect miters every time
I'm using a table saw to make picture frames with mitered corners. It turns out that even tiny inaccuracies in the miter angle or the lengths of the frame pieces cause gaps that make a frame look ...
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