How to cut over 45 degrees on your miter saw!

welcome to sawdust and wood I got a previous video where I go over how to cut out two sangil's and we even cut a 90 degree angle but I want to answer some questions because I think there's a lot of confusion when you start cutting angles less than 90 degrees because most miter saws only go to 50 degrees or 45 degrees my miter saw has 60 on this side and 50 on this side so today I'm going to show you how to cut acute angles less than 90 degrees on the miter saw here I have a pre-built angle I did just for demonstration purposes you can see it I ever put together I have my angle finder on it and the angle is 50 degrees so let's see how we would do the math to calculate this angle you don't just split 50 and get 25 and put 25 on your miter saw you're gonna make a bad cut so you take 180 minus 50 equals 130 130 divided by 2 equals 65 so we need to 65 degree cuts so let's walk over to my saw and you'll see on the left side I only go to 50 and on the right side I want to go to 60 I'm gonna show you right now how to set your saw to make a 65 degree cut so we own the miter saw got a block of wood this is going to be my jig I got clamps you don't have clamps on your sword you can some people will just get some regular clamps and clamp it to the back here but I have a disk lamp on my sauce so I'm gonna get it on the wood tight make sure it's against the back real good now what I'm going to do is come over to 45 degrees with my soul and I'm gonna make that cup right here 45 degrees okay put the saw back to zero degrees now let's get the wood for my angles okay so I wrote this out so everyone could understand this here's my jig 45 cut slot down right where my saw cuts 45 it's on the money so at 0 degrees where I'm at right now that will actually give me a 45-degree cut I'll put my wood in like this lined up where my jig and cut and it's the same as you move over 5 is gonna be 50 degrees 10 on the saw there's gonna be 55 and so on so we said we needed a 65 degree angle it's 265 degree cuts so we're going to move this all over to 20 lock it down on 20 I will put the board right up and gets the jig we're at 20 degrees I'm gonna make a cut I'm gonna put the camera because I'm holding the camera with my hand and I can't make this cut the right way okay I'm back now I got the board against my jig and I got the sauce say that 20 which is actually 65 and I need two cuts right here to make my angle let's go ahead and get these cuts and then check it out here's how two cuts line up so we took a 50 degree angle here's your math 180 minus 50 equals 130 130 divided by 2 equals 65 and that is how you cut angles less than 90 degrees easy way to do it with any miter saw let's make yourself a jig just like this you could even cut turn turn the saw put a long board across here and then cut another 45 here and leave this board clamp to and then you could cut both ways on your jig you wouldn't have to flip the board over thanks for watching I hope you learn how to cut angles less than 90 degrees today make a jig on you miter saw please hit the like button please subscribe stay tuned for more videos thanks [Music]

Channel: Sawdust and Wood

Views: 453,750

Keywords: angles, 65 degree angles, miter saw, Make a jig

Id: VNFjzMmi6NE

Length: 5min 54sec (354 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 25 2017