I install a large amount of quarter round in customers' homes and being wondering if there is a faster tool to cut the angles. I now use either a power mitre saw or the mitre box & hand saw combination. Is there any special power tool to cut these angles?
Mon, Nov 29, 2004, 8:08pm (EST-3) snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (ississauga) who wonderingly asks: I install a large amount of quarter round in customers' homes and being wondering if there is a faster tool to cut the angles. I now use either a power mitre saw or the mitre box & hand saw combination. Is there any special power tool to cut these angles?
Yeah. It's called a power mitre saw. Compound angle.
Faster tool? It would appear you seem to have left out some details, because I don't understand your question as asked. I would think a power mitre saw would be about as fast as you could get, and still make accurate cuts. Of course, I would say a hatchet would be faster - albeit, not quite as accurate.
Are you cutting different angles, and having to change the settings on your mitre saw? The time it takes slowing you down? Or what? Inquiring minds want to know.
If it's the time changing angles, one solution would be two, or more, power mitre saws, each set at a different angle.
But, now I'm curious. If you are installing quarter round in customer homes, it would seem you do it for a living, or at least remuneration. How long have you been doing it?
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Has anyone out there ever tried a miter guillotine? I've seen some that range in price from $150 to over $2k. How well do they work?
molding sheers. i use em every day and they are far and away faster than any power saw. i get mine from butki tool.
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I've never seen one that cut. They're really only for trimming a whisker off things. Nice tools for picture framing, but not for quick cuts.
For fast mitres in trim work, I prefer a hand saw and a good mitre box. It takes minimal time to make the cut, it's the setup that needs the effort. I can work much faster with a handsaw, because I know I can stick my fingers into the working area without major risk.
Faster? How about the Bosch Power Hand Saw,
I have done this also in new home construction. The cutting is the fast part with a Electric Miter saw. The measuring, walking to the saw and returning to nail the molding is the slow part. With the Bosch saw you may be able to cut the molding at the location it will be installed and stay on your knees. BTY why are you using 1/4 molding instead of the traditional shoe molding?
Here is a link to what I think you are looking for.
I have one. they work great.
they don't do through cuts though. they're for cleaning up your miter saw cut.
More work. The wood has to be cut close and then trimmed in the Miter Trimmer.
They're handy and do an excellent job for 'extra' f or the look in my eyes?
*shrugs*
I think mine would cheerfully take the head off a helper, without even chipping the blades. You've got to love that 115 year old ironwork.
Whoa there, Zippy! How is it possible that you need something "faster" than a power miter saw? Heck, even a dull handsaw only takes a few seconds to cut quater round- I think I even used a utility knife once in a pinch, with fairly quick results. Aut inveniam viam aut faciam
maybe his quarter round is 6" radius... didja think of that? huh, didja?
No, I guess I didn't. Hmmm... does your quarter round have a 6" radius? Perhaps a chainsaw is the way to go... Seriously, though- why the need for such speed? I always found the measuring and nailing to take a heck of a lot longer than the cutting! Those trimmers the other posters mentioned look like they're more for making a clean finished edge or correcting a bad angle (both of which are real useful, but I don't know that adding a step saves any time) than for chomping through a million linear feet of 1/4 round in 5.5 seconds flat.
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Well, a power mitre saw is pretty fast - but if you need to go /really/ fast, it's difficult to beat a chain saw...
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This has got to be a troll. Check the posts in the last few months:
You must have really been attached to that nail. Was it your last one? ET
Yeah, but for really fast you'll need a helper:-)
Well, I can out cut either of those by simply breaking it over my knee. Now, that's fast. However, if accuracy counts...
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