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On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:17:37 +0100, Adam Chapman wrote
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Hello,
I want to make this beehive
http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yo...ve-steve-moye/
, it's called a "WBC"hive if anyone wants to read about it.
Basically I have no idea how to make the finger joint at at angle like
that. Im sure i could work out the angles, but cant work out how
tomake it with a router.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Adam
I'm Xposting this to rec.woodworking for you 'cos there's some clever blokes
on there who might be able to come at this from a different direction and
sort you out properly
Meanwhile
I just took a look at the drawings on
http://www.beesource.com/files/10frwbci.pdf
As it stands there's NO way to cut the joints with a router because the cuts
would be parallelogram shaped. The cuts would have to be cut parallel with
each other but at an angle relative to the board edge
You _can_ do it by hand (well, I couldn't)
or
you can have one of the pairs of sides square to the other a
and running "normally square" - as in like a standard box joint - on the
square-cornered sides.
Check out
http://www.stots.com/tm.htm
review
http://www.woodshopdemos.com/prd-stot.htm
This guy sells a jig for you to make your own dovetail/box jigs of any size
and custom built for any particular weird project you have on hand, so if
you're willing to lose the leaning-in on two of the walls, you could joint it
fairly easily - even dovetail it - with this gizmo which is around 40 usd
He has some nice examples of angled dovetails. Watch the on-site video for a
step by step account.
I've probably overlooked something obvious, so I'm throwing this one out to
the floor for sage counsel.
Enjoy!
How about using a standard super and cover it with clapboard siding
and mitered corners?
Art
(I can't post to the alt groups (handicapped by Verizon) so maybe someone
could post this over there?)