Comments on: Sneak Not: How to Cut Accurate Miters

By: tsstahl

tsstahl — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:32:52 +0000

My first corner is always great, 100% of the time. The mate and the other end always seem to escape me.

By: Publius Secundus

Publius Secundus — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:16:10 +0000

Are you eschewing the shooting board, straight and miter, now that your legions of acolytes have them, simple or not, and anticipate the ecstacy of sliding that monster Stanley No. 8 or honkin’ 7 with the precise straight honed iron for that tiny “snick” off end grain? If you can fit miters straight off the saw, it seems you ought to be able to do the same on crosscuts. You choose your method.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi

By: zdillinger

zdillinger — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:38:47 +0000

I always read the “Debate of the Carpenters Tools” in Yoda’s voice. “The plane my brother is, yes, hmmm. Heehehehe”. That is one influential green puppet.

By: xMike

xMike — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:37:44 +0000

aH, Hah!
Your last picture’s label implies that you used a commercial miter box to make your most excellent fitting cut. No fair, Yoda, you have a “jig” on that saw – and, as I suspected all along – a laser range finder on that light saber. The Force my ass.

Yeah, yeah, a hand powered commercial jig, but a jig none the less.

My Dad had one of those when I was a wee lad. Even at 7 years old I could cut decent miters for picture frames when using his jig but made kindling when using the hand saw.

By: Nick Webb

Nick Webb — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:00:17 +0000

Ah yes, but how do you get the knife line in the right place?

By: Christopher Schwarz

Christopher Schwarz — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:26:26 +0000

Saw or saw not. There is no try plane.

By: Obs

Obs — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:17:21 +0000

“Do, or do not. There is no try plane.”–Yoda