The Genius Miter Trick You Were Never Taught

okay two different width pieces I want to miter them so that when they come together they make a nice tight 90 degree corner you can't just put 45s on these and call it a day because they're two different widths these ends are cut to 45 and look what happens when I put them together it indeed makes a 90 but it doesn't match up so how do we figure out which angle to cut which piece at in order to get them to mate up I've got a very quick very easy way to do this and most importantly in my opinion it's one of the safest ways to do this as well I'm going to start with two brand new pieces here these are not cut to some magic number that's going to make this trick work it will work with any two widths that you need to put together I'm going to start with the thin piece going on top of the wider piece I have no idea why I start with the wider piece I just do this has been cut to 90 degrees at the end so that makes it very easy I'm just going to slide it up using my Square to keep it 90 degrees until I'm flush on the end of this I'm going to take my square and set it aside rotate this so you guys can see exactly where I'm cutting or where I'm marking here I'm just going to make a mark just like that that's all I need to do that's the end of my layout I'm all the way done now I'm going to take a sliding tea bevel just like this we're gonna put it up here this will let me find that angle it won't tell me what the angle is and to be honest I don't really care but we're going to adjust this just until I meet this Mark and that corner and that looks good to me so let's take all three of these over to the miter saw all right we're going to use the sliding t-bevel to establish this angle again we don't care what the angle is I'm going to override the detents on here we're going to slide this over pull the guard out of the way so we can see what the heck we're doing and I'm just going to Pivot this blade until it matches the angle that we found on our sliding t-bevel that looks good to me so we're going to lock this down so that it can't move all right with this locked into this exact position I'm going to take some double side tape I'm going to stick it right here on this part I don't want it on the spinning part but this part of the table I'm just going to leave it right there if you're not a fan of double-sided tape it's because you're using the wrong one I'll leave a link to the good stuff down in the description I'm going to take the wide board and I'm going to set it right up against here I'm just going to Simply up against here and down just like we would any other normal cut that's going to hold this here so that I can spin this back around here in just a second but with it held in place here I'm going to make my first cut all right now we can get rid of this scrap piece and turn the detents back on and we'll just lock this right back down into 90 and you can see that this piece stayed perfectly still and that's exactly where I wanted it what I'm going to do is now use this as a fence so I'm going to take more double sided tape very simple you guys probably can't see because my hand is in the way but we're just going to lay a strip right here and that's where we're going to put our second piece now you remember we didn't make any marks on this we don't need to we're using the material itself to determine what this complementary angle is I'm going to take this slide it right up against here and push down just like this and what that's going to do is it's going to hold not only this piece so I can get my hands out of the way it'll also hold our scrap piece that falls off as well and keep it from coming up and hitting the back of the blade so with this taped down I'm going to go ahead and make my one cut at 90 degrees all right now we can simply pop this off just like this get rid of the scrap we can just simply use the tape to take the old tape off you can see how well that sticks so it makes it very safe let's take these back to the bench and see what we got all right so here's the wide one here's the narrow one and if we slide these up to each other that is a pretty tight and nice looking joint if you ask me 90 degrees that's what we wanted so two pieces unequal widths mitered together Perfect 90. all we have to do is lay out the width of that one and the rest of it just kind of falls into place so hopefully that helps you guys out

Channel: Inspire Woodcraft

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Length: 3min 54sec (234 seconds)

Published: Mon May 22 2023