On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:00:05 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 1/22/2021 2:38 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Friday, January 22, 2021 at 11:56:59 AM UTC-5, J. Clarke wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 04:14:34 -0800 (PST), Brian Welch
wrote:

On Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 9:58:30 PM UTC-5, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 8:19:47 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:18:08 GMT, Puckdropper
wrote:
Sonny wrote in news:ba8439dd-e908-40d8-98b9-
:

That's not totally safe. I'd use a different technique.

Sonny


I wouldn't trust it to be repeatable either. If that 2x4 is not tight to
the table, the work piece can slide under and your cut will be off ever so
slightly.
How do you get the 2x4 tight without lifting the miter gauge in the
slot? It looks like a bad idea all around.
I don't like the idea of the piece being trapped between the stop block
and the blade. It just doesn't look safe to me.

What would happen if the piece got a little loose and shifted/"twisted"
sideways a bit?
Good point...one reason why I would have preferred the reverse bevel cut...
It looks like he's using a small saw that doesn't have a lot of power
so there's little actual danger--the thing will likely stall instead
of throwing the workpiece. The trouble with learning on small tools
is that you learn to expect a stall rather than the workpiece being
thrown into the next county or your liver, whichever it hits first.

Even if what you say about low powered saws and kick back is true...

The image I posted was from a set of instructions for making octagon
frames. The entity that posted it (Family Handyman) has no idea how
much power the saw owned by any given reader has.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/proje...exagon-shelves

I'm pretty sure that they didn't publish an unsafe method for making a
cut based on the assumption that everyone who tries the technique is
using a low powered saw. I'm pretty sure it was published due to low
powered knowledge.



I once watched Brad Stag, On the Ultimate Work Shop, IIRC, demonstrate
how to cut a dado with a miter gauge and the guard in place. He had a
puzzled look when the wood did not pass past the guard and he had to
back the piece out of the cut. Idiot, and the censors did not correct that.

Censors? His producers should have backed that footage out. If they
were too stupid, his agent sure should have demanded it.