Gil Liu
02-14-2007, 11:06 PM
Last night, I was making a small box and intend to join the sides on a 45-degree miter with a few splines as accents.
I have on my to-do list to make a cross-cut sled, but so far have been doing fine with an EB-3 miter gauge.
When I was making the miter cuts on pieces that were 4-6" in length, I felt a little nervous with my hand that close to the blade. I tried using a short Bessey clamp to hold the piece to the miter gauge, but the shape of the gauge was such that it would lift the piece.
I've seen small cross cut sleds that have toggle clamps that ride in t-track and this would probably have been ideal, but was wondering if anyone had suggestions for using an after-market miter gauge in this situation
Thanks for help,
Gil
I have on my to-do list to make a cross-cut sled, but so far have been doing fine with an EB-3 miter gauge.
When I was making the miter cuts on pieces that were 4-6" in length, I felt a little nervous with my hand that close to the blade. I tried using a short Bessey clamp to hold the piece to the miter gauge, but the shape of the gauge was such that it would lift the piece.
I've seen small cross cut sleds that have toggle clamps that ride in t-track and this would probably have been ideal, but was wondering if anyone had suggestions for using an after-market miter gauge in this situation
Thanks for help,
Gil