Mitering Large Width Boards

Jeff B · 2008-03-24T20:36:22+00:00

Part of my kitchen remodeling involves cutting and mitering reallynice stained 6" wide molding boards that cover the gap between the topof the wall cabinets and the ceiling. They are installed vertically.(Crown molding gets installed on top of that.) The throat of mycompound miter saw is too small to make that cut vertically or layingflat. I have one of those cheap "table saws" ... its really just atable with an old circular saw mounted underneath. Unfortunately, itdoesn't tilt 45 for all of the corners I need to cut. I cut the endoff of one long piece by hand with a new/good circular saw using afence clamped to board as a guide but that won't work on smallerpieces. Plus its not as accurate.I seem to have 2 options...1) go buy a new half decent quality tablesaw or 2) lay the board flat on the miter saw, cut as much as I canwith the blade tilted 45, then flip and rotate the board to cut therest. While I usually look for any excuse to buy new tools, a newtable saw won't get used much after this project. (And no...I don'tknow anyone I can borrow a good table saw from.)Has anyone used method #2 with any success?? I want the corners to bereally tight...I don't want this to be a "caulk and putty" job! Ithink this will result in miscuts and some wasted wood but thought Iwould check first.Thanks.--Jeff

Mar 24, 2008 20 Replies

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Father Haskell 18 years ago

At least, blade and miter slots should be dead parallel. From that point, set the miter gauge with a decent grade drafting triangle and a strip of 1 x 2 jammed into the miter slot. Process takes less than 15 seconds.

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