It has been my dream and it had been that way when I finally, when was it?, gave up the idea of cutting my materials to 45 degrees. That must have been 5,6 years ago by now, at least.
At that time I did make some 45 degree pieces after a fashion, of course, but then most of them were experimental and sadly defective in microscopic sense, not to my liking, anyway.
In the small world that I live in it is well known that it is impossibly difficult to cut wooden pieces, particularly planks, precisely to 45 degrees. And yet, I am here today, perhaps, to announce, with some trepidation, that I may be succeeding after all and after all those years.
Anyway, take a look at the following three pictures.
The last picture shows the resultant and there is nothing new about the whole setup. Even the material holding jig is a plain idea that anybody can come up with. It is the precision that I am yapping about. Naturally, saw traces will remain over the cut faces, but then they can be smoothed out by my belt sander, which is not shown here.
I am very, very satisfied with my trial today. I should be able to fine tune the current setup and aim for even more precise 45 degrees. You may wonder what I have in mind as an eventual product. Well, it is a tiny, table like bed for putting my snacks on.
I cannot go into more details at this stage, but I should be ale to start working on them quickly enough and come up with an interim product with appropriate photos to show. I must stress that this is potentially something very big simply because it opens up the way forward to a whole range and variety of 45 degree objects...
At that time I did make some 45 degree pieces after a fashion, of course, but then most of them were experimental and sadly defective in microscopic sense, not to my liking, anyway.
In the small world that I live in it is well known that it is impossibly difficult to cut wooden pieces, particularly planks, precisely to 45 degrees. And yet, I am here today, perhaps, to announce, with some trepidation, that I may be succeeding after all and after all those years.
Anyway, take a look at the following three pictures.
The last picture shows the resultant and there is nothing new about the whole setup. Even the material holding jig is a plain idea that anybody can come up with. It is the precision that I am yapping about. Naturally, saw traces will remain over the cut faces, but then they can be smoothed out by my belt sander, which is not shown here.
I am very, very satisfied with my trial today. I should be able to fine tune the current setup and aim for even more precise 45 degrees. You may wonder what I have in mind as an eventual product. Well, it is a tiny, table like bed for putting my snacks on.
I cannot go into more details at this stage, but I should be ale to start working on them quickly enough and come up with an interim product with appropriate photos to show. I must stress that this is potentially something very big simply because it opens up the way forward to a whole range and variety of 45 degree objects...