Cutting angles greater than 45 degrees.

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Joey · #1 Post by **Joey** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:06 pm

I puzzled over the panel 5/6 joint on my first T48 for a couple of days before I slapped my forehead and remembered that there is more than one way to skin a cat (than sticking his head in a boot jack and yanking on his tail).

My table saw goes from 0 to 45 degrees, so getting the 56 degree joint was a bit of a problem. I made a quickie sled out of a scrap piece of 2x4 and a piece of 1/2" plywood. I squared up the 2x4 and attached the plywood at a 90 degree angle. Then I set the blade at 28 degrees, pushed the sled against the fence and moved the fence up until the bottom edge of the sled NEARLY touched the blade. After that I could move the sled off to side, set panel 5 against the sled and hold it in place with a couple of C clamps (up high, well away from the blade), then run it through the saw. Do the same thing with panel 6.

When I made this I was using scrap, and the 2x4 was just over 2' long. If I were to do this again, I would make the sled 3' long just to make sure I had a little more to hang on to.

Frankenspeakers · #2 Post by **Frankenspeakers** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:43 am

thats a nice solution, I tried somthing a little different- I measured the desired angle with a protractor and 'split' the angle took some off of both sides to get the angle right... either way will work

gdougherty · #3 Post by **gdougherty** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:15 pm

I did the same angle split. Rather than put the larger angle on both boards, I figured the difference off 180 and split the difference on both sides. The thing that helps though is I'm using 1.5" finishing brads in an air powered brad gun instead of screws so they're not splitting the ends as I tack the two panels together. The airgun makes the install much easier and much quicker with no pilot holes and the like.