Chris Jenkins
01-24-2007, 11:29 AM
I'm gonna be building a nice maple box as a gift. I was planning to do miters reinforced with dovetail keys.
So last night I break out the 4410L for the first time since the move and check it for accuracy. Blade is square to the table. DO a test cut, flip the ends to double the error and everything is good. Rotate the head over to 45 degrees. It was off just a bit, so I used the micro adjust and get it corrected. SO then I do another test cut and here is the problem, now that the miters are 45, the cut is not square!
I fooled with it to the point that I was just enraged. Walked away for a bit and then came back to it thinking lets try a bevel instead of a miter.
I cut the bevel and it was properly cutting 45, but there is a hollow in the cut, so if you were to put to miters together you get a 90 degree angle that the ends coming together at the top and bottom, but are coved out in the middle something like this ().
I took them to the block plane and this will fix the problem, but should I have to do this?
I would have tried this on the TS, but I really don't like taking my saw out of square and the lumber is taller than the height of the blade max.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks,
Chris
So last night I break out the 4410L for the first time since the move and check it for accuracy. Blade is square to the table. DO a test cut, flip the ends to double the error and everything is good. Rotate the head over to 45 degrees. It was off just a bit, so I used the micro adjust and get it corrected. SO then I do another test cut and here is the problem, now that the miters are 45, the cut is not square!
I fooled with it to the point that I was just enraged. Walked away for a bit and then came back to it thinking lets try a bevel instead of a miter.
I cut the bevel and it was properly cutting 45, but there is a hollow in the cut, so if you were to put to miters together you get a 90 degree angle that the ends coming together at the top and bottom, but are coved out in the middle something like this ().
I took them to the block plane and this will fix the problem, but should I have to do this?
I would have tried this on the TS, but I really don't like taking my saw out of square and the lumber is taller than the height of the blade max.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks,
Chris