Good Morning Friends,

You are about to make a 7 sided project and you need the angles cut to an exact size of 25.71429º.

What method would you use to arrive to that angle?

Having always been accused, and rightly so, of over engineering everything- I would layout a full sized mock up of the base/outline. Mark/cut test pieces to check. Then create a cutting jig in case I had to make another project later.

Stainable wood putty.

  I would make a block to that angle, and use that block to set up my miter saw with.      Angle can be marked out with a framer's  framing square, as it will give you the right angle.    A bevel guage can then be used to mark the angle out on the set-up block.    Be sure to write WHAT angle it is, ON the set-up block.

Good Morning Fellows,

Good answers from all of you this morning and here is another way for setting the miter gauge without a lot of math.

I think this would work well if you make certain the table of the saw is absolutely level.


Ralph Allen Jones said:

Good Morning Fellows,

Good answers from all of you this morning and here is another way for setting the miter gauge without a lot of math.

I do things as simply as possible. I would draw a circle as large as needed and step off seven segments with dividers. Draw lines from center to form a triangle within the circle and set my angle from that.

cut one one side at 26 and the other at 25.25 you only need the tips to touch

 

using the  digital angle finder like ralph posted doesnt require the reference table or etc. to be level, to use you set the angle finder on the machine or whatever and press set, the finder than references that surface as dead level and makes any angle thereafter based on that reference surface.

Lewis Kauffman said:

I think this would work well if you make certain the table of the saw is absolutely level.

Ralph Allen Jones said:

Good Morning Fellows,

Good answers from all of you this morning and here is another way for setting the miter gauge without a lot of math.

I was in the shower, where I do my best thinking, and realized that what I had written did in fact not take this into consideration. Thanks for the correction, Paul. Sometimes I think I need a plexiglass belly button so I can see where I'm going.

Lew


Paul Whitmarsh said:

using the  digital angle finder like ralph posted doesnt require the reference table or etc. to be level, to use you set the angle finder on the machine or whatever and press set, the finder than references that surface as dead level and makes any angle thereafter based on that reference surface.

Lewis Kauffman said:

I think this would work well if you make certain the table of the saw is absolutely level.

Ralph Allen Jones said:

Good Morning Fellows,

Good answers from all of you this morning and here is another way for setting the miter gauge without a lot of math.

no prob lew, just trying to help, didnt know if you knew about the "magic box" as i like to call it, there is also many other uses for it that i have found

Lewis Kauffman said:

I was in the shower, where I do my best thinking, and realized that what I had written did in fact not take this into consideration. Thanks for the correction, Paul. Sometimes I think I need a plexiglass belly button so I can see where I'm going.

Lew

Paul Whitmarsh said:

using the  digital angle finder like ralph posted doesnt require the reference table or etc. to be level, to use you set the angle finder on the machine or whatever and press set, the finder than references that surface as dead level and makes any angle thereafter based on that reference surface.

Lewis Kauffman said:

I think this would work well if you make certain the table of the saw is absolutely level.

Ralph Allen Jones said:

Good Morning Fellows,

Good answers from all of you this morning and here is another way for setting the miter gauge without a lot of math.