Kirk Constable
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Jeezopete...
When I was working for the mesquite outfit, I built probably 200 simple, 'library looking' dining chairs. Nice straight frame... no splay from the rear to the front. When I started selling chairs on my own, I made the front a couple inches wide than the rear. Makes a better looking chair, especially when an upholstered seat is used. Buuuut, I haven't made any chairs in over a year. So I forgot my tricks. Long story short... I've always struggled with the compound miters and cutting tenons. Blade at an angle, miter gauge or sled at an angle as well... and then the mirror piece for the other side is upside down and backwards. So I use both miter slots. Today it dawned on me that the blade isn't parallel to the slots. I've got the sleds/gauges set up to cut square from the left slot, so I don't normally have any issues... but when I have to cut the dreaded compound angles, 3degrees from the left slot isn't the same as -3degrees from the right. It's soooo close that it's even more irritating than if it was way bad.
I'll be moving the saw in a couple months (hear that Norm??), so I'm not gonna spend any time on it now... but I'll be back for instructions later.
When I was working for the mesquite outfit, I built probably 200 simple, 'library looking' dining chairs. Nice straight frame... no splay from the rear to the front. When I started selling chairs on my own, I made the front a couple inches wide than the rear. Makes a better looking chair, especially when an upholstered seat is used. Buuuut, I haven't made any chairs in over a year. So I forgot my tricks. Long story short... I've always struggled with the compound miters and cutting tenons. Blade at an angle, miter gauge or sled at an angle as well... and then the mirror piece for the other side is upside down and backwards. So I use both miter slots. Today it dawned on me that the blade isn't parallel to the slots. I've got the sleds/gauges set up to cut square from the left slot, so I don't normally have any issues... but when I have to cut the dreaded compound angles, 3degrees from the left slot isn't the same as -3degrees from the right. It's soooo close that it's even more irritating than if it was way bad.
I'll be moving the saw in a couple months (hear that Norm??), so I'm not gonna spend any time on it now... but I'll be back for instructions later.