Miter Trimmer

If you do a lot of moldings with 45’s these are the cat’s meow. all frame shops use these. Buy it and if you don’t like it I’ll buy you out of it and pay shipping to get it. Fair enough?

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Don’t wait, it’s a steal @$40.00

The tool is designed to take paper thin shavings. Properly adjusted, and blades sharp, you will be impressed.

I bought one many years ago from Woodworkers supply. The pic looks like the same model, different color.

-- Nicky

see below – (I messed up and posted twice by accident!)

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

I have one from my father in-law, who swore by it…I haven’t used it, but I’m hanging on to it for the time when I do small miters!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Hey, if it doesn’t work well, you can always modify it to cut your cigars! Oh, and if you ship it to Thos, be sure to let me know, so I can invite myself over to his shop to try it out!

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Hey, I am with Tom! Buy it and if you don’t like it, I will buy it and pay postage. I do picture frames and this is the way to go with 45 degree miters!

God Bless,
Hawg

-- Saving barnwood from the scrapyards

id certainly buy it . i dont know about the particular model you have but those are a great tool to do smaller mouldings with

Thanks guys, Its in my shop. Sorry Thos, I love it already. Gave it a test run and boy does it make some fine shavings on end grain! Probably my new favorite tool.

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I have the Lion Brand. Bought it about 15 years ago. they are great.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

I watched a Taunton Press video from the library on woodworking, (I forget which one in the series) and I noticed that the guy had a full sized one of these. I have always wanted one of those. Where can you find a full sized miter trimmer? Does anyone still make one? I would love to come across an old US made one from a frame shop someday. Then I will send this one to Thos.

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This is what I want (eventually):

Found on OWWM.com (but not for sale).

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Watch your fingers!

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I’m thinking this is a no-brainer. $130 less than retail in new condition. At the very least, you could most likely resell it on Ebay or Craigslist for twice that. It would still be a decent buy at $80. I’m with you though, as cool as it is, it wouldn’t see much use based on the types of projects that I typically do.

-- Jeff, South Carolina

“Ve have vays of making you talk, old man!” “And lookie here, Ve got it on sale too!”

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

now that one looks more like one ive seen used before . a couple years back iwhen i was a sot nose starting off an old finish carpenter used one to trim all his baseboard . he was a miserable old buzzard so no one talked to him and he liked it that way but i would look at his miteres after he left and they were really sweet . the one he used didnt have a stand but looked more that size . maybe he removed it from the stand ? the first one you showed dosent look in the pic to be big enough to cut a 3 or 4 in moulding the second one does
my 2 scents

Dang it, I had a place all picked out in the shop, too.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

lol sorry thos hey blake thos things arnt worth a pee hole in the snow id unload it on thos if hes sucker enuff to buy it !!! lol

I think it’s really just for picture framing, but for 40 stones you have to buy it! Never turn down a bargain price on an expensive tool. Look at it this way Blake…maybee it will sit on a shelf for a year but you will do a project that it will come in handy for and you will be gald you didn’t pass it up!

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Update:

Yea, I think I am gonna like this tool. I cleaned the shipping wax (cosmolene, or whatever) off and calibrated it for the 45 and 90 degree stops. I mounted it to my radial arm saw bench top behind the fence. Its a pretty nice tool. No more tear-out or sloppy miters. Most of my boxes are pretty small so I will probably be using it for that a lot.

I will, however, always be on the lookout for one of the full-sized (usually 6”) foot-opperated models like they use in frame shops. These usually have a double blade guillitine which comes down when you step on a petal. What’s nice about these is that you can take a bite out of the middle of a board, making both miters at the same time and creating continuous grain without even a saw kerf worth of material being removed. The good thing about the petal is that you can use both of your hands to hold and position the wood. You have to move the wood for each slice, one after the other.

They are pretty expensive, though. You can find some old ones for a few hundred bucks, or new models starting at over $1000. But for quick, quiet, accurate, perfect, and dustless miters, they are pretty slick.

Here is an example of an old one I found on the internet:

Here is a new one:

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Be careful!!! David Marks has used one on his show a few times.

-- Maplewood, MN

I use exactly that sort of thing for my small mitred boxes. A real bargain at $40. As you’ll have found out by now, it provides a glass-smooth surface to the mitre.

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.