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Default angled finger joint? for beehive

On Jun 21, 9:31*pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 6/20/2009 4:59 AM Bored Borg spake thus:





On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 20:17:37 +0100, Adam Chapman wrote
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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.


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.


One question: why, exactly, do the boxes have to have angled sides like
that? Is it a functional part of the design, or just an esthetic one?

(Haven't checked out the documentation referred to, I'll admit, 'cos I
don't like downloading huge PDFs just for curiosity's sake.)

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I suppose its just to look nice. I know the outer case has an air gap
from the inner cases containing the bees, to keep the hive warmer in
the winter. Im thinking it would be faster, easier to do something
like a biscuit joint. It'd also give me a better chance of leaving a
nice finish, as there would be no end grain showing. I'm making it
from pine since its cheap. A lot of people use cedar because of its
lighter weight but i don't intend to carry mine anywhere.

Thanks for all the replies everyone, I appreciate it a lot