Kburke
Grumbler in Training
Dear Grumblers,
I hope all is well. First day on and I have another question already. Most of my frames that I've made (probably around 100) have been moldings I've made myself on my router and most are fairly simple profiles. I purchased a few sticks of premade moldings that have a much fancier profile than I've used in the past (they are about 3 inches wide and are the gold variety that have become vogue to use in framing mirrors). I can't for the life of me get the mitres perfect. On my other profiles I work them until they are perfect. On these new profiles (which I will not be able to sand post joining) I can get 'em close, but that isn't good enough. I checked to see if my mitre saw (10 " compound mitre saw) was at 45 degrees and it was. I checked to see if my fences were perfectly straight and everything seemed to check out. I did a few test cuts and checked those against a carpenter's square. Everything looked good, but I still can't get the mitres on the wild profile molding exact...any thoughts?
Thanks so much,
Kevin
Columbia, SC
I hope all is well. First day on and I have another question already. Most of my frames that I've made (probably around 100) have been moldings I've made myself on my router and most are fairly simple profiles. I purchased a few sticks of premade moldings that have a much fancier profile than I've used in the past (they are about 3 inches wide and are the gold variety that have become vogue to use in framing mirrors). I can't for the life of me get the mitres perfect. On my other profiles I work them until they are perfect. On these new profiles (which I will not be able to sand post joining) I can get 'em close, but that isn't good enough. I checked to see if my mitre saw (10 " compound mitre saw) was at 45 degrees and it was. I checked to see if my fences were perfectly straight and everything seemed to check out. I did a few test cuts and checked those against a carpenter's square. Everything looked good, but I still can't get the mitres on the wild profile molding exact...any thoughts?
Thanks so much,
Kevin
Columbia, SC