amp miter sander trivia

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Al E

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I joined quite a few sets of two legs of a 4"x"6 frame on my vises. Then I join the sets. I found that the legs were 1/16+ too long and tried to sand them down. No luck on the 4" leg because the 6" leg hits the sanding wheel. I placed the 4" leg against the end of the fence and sanded. The end of the fence is also 45 degrees. It worked just fine.

This may never happen to you but if it does you will be prepared.
 
how do you use your vises to join your legs?

by joining 2 adjacent legs horizontally or vertically??

which is the best and why?

what about by joining 3 legs together kinda like a 2-d box and then you add the "lid" once your two other corners dry and you remove them from the vices? as long as your vises are horizontally level should this method work just fine?
 
Join 2 legs together, always with the long on the left, to make an L.

Then join the 2 L's together.

I've always felt it was the best way simply because it reduces the chance for human error. If you always keep the longs on the left, there's much less chance of joing two shorts or two longs. Then once you have two L's then there's only one way the frame is going to go together.
 
FramerDave has read my mind.

It is the best way I've found and I think an unwritten commandment of framing.
 
Another reason for long on the left and short on the right is so you don't accidentally do the first one long on the left/short on the right and the second one short on the left/long on the right. Trust me, the frame ain't gonna go together that way!

Gee, do I sound like this is something that happened to me once ...or twice...

Dave Makielski
 
I have 4 vises so I usually join the whole frame at once but if one side is less than 12" I have to use this method.
 
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