Looking for a little input.

Watched an old NYW today (The station actually quit begging long
enough to show something, even if it was a couple of years old.)

Project involved serving trays which required several compound angle
cuts on T/S.

The following came to mind.

Trying to set an equal right and left hand angle to some odd ball
angle on a T/S miter gage will happen when pigs fly.

No matter how good, there will always be some error.

I can lay out very accurate angles if I use trigonometry.

So now the question.

Why not lay out odd ball angles using trig on 1/4 hardboard and then
trim to size with a straight edge and a router?

You now have a hardboard triangle with the odd ball angle that can be
used for both righ and left settings insuring they both will be the
same.

Next question.

Other than the time involved, what's wrong with the approach?

Especially if the job comes up again.

Lew

Lew Hodgett wrote:
Looking for a little input.

Watched an old NYW today (The station actually quit begging long
enough to show something, even if it was a couple of years old.)

Project involved serving trays which required several compound angle
cuts on T/S.

The following came to mind.

Trying to set an equal right and left hand angle to some odd ball
angle on a T/S miter gage will happen when pigs fly.

No matter how good, there will always be some error.

I can lay out very accurate angles if I use trigonometry.

So now the question.

Why not lay out odd ball angles using trig on 1/4 hardboard and then
trim to size with a straight edge and a router?

You now have a hardboard triangle with the odd ball angle that can be
used for both righ and left settings insuring they both will be the
same.

Next question.

Other than the time involved, what's wrong with the approach?

Nothing

Especially if the job comes up again.

Or make the template with two foldable, moveable pieces and include a
protractor and use it for everything.



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