TS miters greater than 45*

[Lonnie in Orlando]

Hi,

I need to cut miters that are greater than 45*. Seems like I can accomplish this by attaching an open-top box or open-top right-triangle box to my miter fence. Clamp the workpiece to to the adjoining side of the box. Then set the miter gauge at 90* minus the desired angle.

Do you know any easier / better way to make these cuts on my BT3000 SMT?

Hank Lee: I found an old post by you on the subject, but the pix have fallen off of the server. Can you repost?
http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...=miter+greater

Thanks,

- Lonnie

[pelligrini]

I just did some this weekend. I used my rockler Clamp-it square clamped to my miter guage.

[LCHIEN]

Hi,

I need to cut miters that are greater than 45*. Seems like I can accomplish this by attaching an open-top box or open-top right-triangle box to my miter fence. Clamp the workpiece to to the adjoining side of the box. Then set the miter gauge at 90* minus the desired angle.

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Thanks,

- Lonnie

That will work. I usually fasten a small stop/support to the side of your Right triangle facing the blade. This keeps the position of the piece from sliding along this face as you feed it into the blade. The width of the stop depends on the thinckness of the piece being cut, you'll want it wide enough to give good dupport but short enought to not get cut by the blade (or maybe that's OK). Fasten the triangle thingy to the miter fence.

this works for miters around 45 to 75 degrees. if more than 75 degrees (e.g. 15 degrees from the vertical) then I use the jigs made for that purpose: http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...r=angle%20jiig that slide along the rip fence.

[Lonnie in Orlando]

Thanks guys,

I made a simple 90/45/45 triangle aux fence today. Should work fine.

- Lonnie

[Norm in Fujino]

Some years back I drilled an extra fence pivot hole near the bottom of the SMT to let me mount the fence farther back (towards me). At the time I did it mostly to let me crosscut wider pieces of wood, but it's also valuable for letting me cut sharper angles thatn would otherwise be possible.

[LCHIEN]

Some years back I drilled an extra fence pivot hole near the bottom of the SMT to let me mount the fence farther back (towards me). At the time I did it mostly to let me crosscut wider pieces of wood, but it's also valuable for letting me cut sharper angles that would otherwise be possible.

The 21829 sears version of the BT3s has these extra pivot points on the SMT.