cutting a board to length. simple cutting a board to length with angles on bothends...easy. their are a lot of reasons why you may wantto cut a board to a specific length with angles cut on both ends. however, i hear it all the time. people avoiddoing projects that have angled cuts in them because they are not sure of their ability to be able to do that and be accurate.now their are a lot of different ways to be able to go about doing this. this is just a way that i have found thathas given me the most reliable results.
so the first thing i do is i try to find aboard that is suitable for my project. and here is where a lot of new people will run into the first sticking point becauseoften times what they are doing is they are using plans that they have gotten offthe internet or maybe a magazine somewhere and, they are looking at a cut list. and so theywill go from top to bottom on that cut list and cut all their boards to length. then what they will do is they will take thoseboards that are already cut to length and try to cut the angles into them.
all that does is it forces you into a situationwhere you have to be extremely accurate in order to get those angles cut into those boards. what you have to do isyou have to try and find the exact corner of the board in order to make your cut. if you are too far this way you get somethingthat looks like this. too far this way and you've just cut yourboard too short for the project. so i always leave the board an inch or twolonger than what i'm finally going to want. there is nothing more frustrating then cuttingthe angles only to realize that you didn't cut the them in the right direction.
so when your first starting out it is helpfulto place the board at roughly the same direction and angle that it will be used in the project. in my case this is the rough positioni need. then i'll simulate the adjoining pieces. againfor my situation their is going to be a horizontal top piece and a vertical back piece. so here i want the angle cut thisway and on this side i want the angle cut this way. now what that does is it gives me a roughvisual guide line to assist me from here on out. i'm ready to make my first cut. no i'm notmeasuring anything at this point i just want
to make sure i get the angle cut in the right direction. now i will flip this on it's end making surethe longest side of the board is up. from that side i will mark to my final measurement. and extend that mark. now if i flip it back on its side, one i can'tsee my mark. two if i pull it down the cut is in the wrongdirection. so if i just flip the board over. now i cansee my mark and the cut is in the right direction. i never get cute and fancy with this secondcut and try to hit it dead on first try.
i always sneak up on it. once i'm satisfied with where the cut is going to go i will set a stop block and finish it up. that's because if i need more than one boardwith the same angles at the same length, i can just keep flipping the board over to make each subsequent cut. with the stop block in place i know all my boards are going to be right in terms of length. and that is it. thats all i do to make simpleand easy angled cuts. hey thanks for watching, subsribe if you havn't. don't forget to check me out on facebook and pinterest. if you like this video, here's a couple moreyou'll like as well.
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