Mitering sled

Richard,
That turned out great…....

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Very nice, I might just have to make one of those.

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Nice looking fixture … I visited your webpages. Cool carving box. Welcome to lumberjocks. Looking forward to seeing more work from you.

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Intriguing.

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

Nice jig in operation. Now if I could find an adjustable jig to allow to make an infinate number of angles that would be great.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

WOW, what great idea!

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OK, I’m making one of those… I have a cheap craftsman contractor series table saw and it is a serious PAIN to make any angled adjustments to the blade. I think I’ll make one that is fixed at 45, and one that is fully adjustable.

Thanks for the post! Not only have you done a great job on it’s construction, but you’ve given me a great solution to my problem!

—Steve

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

I don’t know if a adjustable would be productive. You would run into the same problems as with tilting the blade. If you are cutting alot of miters other than 45 degs I would just make another sled.
If you miter cut the track like I did, be sure that you clean out the inside of the track. (dammit)
I cut out the parts for 5 boxes this morning and every one came prefect

The biggest problem that I had when setting up the jig was getting the Fence square with everything else. I think, once the fence is set I will tack it down, I can’t see any point in moving it right now.
Also I made another fence to set at 90 degs to the first one so you can set it to do repetition cuts and it also works good for cutting slots for splines if you are going to use them.
Happily making sawdust.
Richard

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That might solve a big problem for me. I have a very old table saw (probably 60+ years) and the table tilts instead of the blade. I added a table enlargement and thus cannot tilt the table and it is a big deal pain to remove the table. So I often cut 45’s by hand with a mitre box when I would prefer to use a table saw. Thanks for posting.

-- Kevin, Blue Springs, MO

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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