Fitted wardrobe mitre joints

Well, either the wardrobe corners aren't 90 degrees or the mitres aren't

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If it's a cheap mitre saw with indents for 45 degrees I'd suspect it.

Mine doesn't have indents, so for accurate stuff I set it with 45 degree 'square'

I'd fill the gap with car body filler, carefully sand down and then paint to match.

In this situation I'd have used a stepped lap joint

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or maybe a biscuit joint

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For a corner mitre you can get better results with a combination joint like so:

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The step locates the two pieces while the mitre hides the joint. Anyone know the proper name for this one?

Hmm, is it my lack of knowlege on this subject or are these ASCII Arts pictures a tad confusing.

Maybe they have not appeared here, quite as you entered them.

You will be using a non proportional font (I don't know which one you'd prefer to change it to, if indeed you want to change it at all) I tend to use "Courier new" and look in a proportional font when I can't work out what the ASCII art is. To change fonts (in OE) Tools => Options => Read => Font and play about in there. For a momentary look at ASCII art try ctrl+f3 then maximise the window that is shown

Right idea, although your description of proportional and non proportional is back to front.

Proportinal fonts are ones like Times, Ariel etc. Non proportional are ones like Courrier, Lucidia Console etc.

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Bloody difficult ? ..with a mitre saw

One of teo things I would guess - either the saw has not been correctly set up - most of them need a bit of careful calibration to get the 45 degree angles spot on. Making light test cuts (i.e not right through but just into the surface of a bit of wood, so that you then verify the angle with an engineers square).

Or he was cutting the type of cove that is fixed at an angle. This makes the cut a compound one - i.e. you need to place the cove in the saw and hold it at the same angle as it will ultimately be fixed in before cutting it.

but not with a table saw, spindle moulder or a router ...

Yup mea culpa (I am easily confused).

I would hope most people owning any of those would have worked out how to cut a simple mitre joint that aligns :-)

"He was using a power mitre saw, the joints all seemed to be slightly out, is there some trick the pro's use to hide this gap, (or avoid it in the first place) :) "