What is the secret to achieving a perfect miter cut? I'm putting trim around a window and I'm not happy with my cuts. I have a compound miter saw but the four pieces never seem to line up around the window correctly
To close up any gap in the face, try adjusting your compound miter box so that you "undercut" joint by about 1-2 degrees, leaving the saw set at 45 degrees. This will help the face join together before the back does, which you don't see anyway. Make sense?
If your installing casing on a door, put the head on first, then you can cut the legs a liitle too long and check your joints and make nescessary adjustments, (the legs usually end up a 1/4" to 3/8" off the subfloor. Hope this helps
To close up any gap in the face, try adjusting your compound miter box so that you "undercut" joint by about 1-2 degrees, leaving the saw set at 45 degrees. This will help the face join together before the back does, which you don't see anyway. Make sense?
If your installing casing on a door, put the head on first, then you can cut the legs a liitle too long and check your joints and make nescessary adjustments, (the legs usually end up a 1/4" to 3/8" off the subfloor. Hope this helps
Just read your question again. When trimming out a window, install the head first, then the legs leaving them long until you like the joints at the top, then the bottom. You will but the bottom just a little long so you can check each joint and adjust
Just read your question again. When trimming out a window, install the head first, then the legs leaving them long until you like the joints at the top, then the bottom. You will but the bottom just a little long so you can check each joint and adjust
I got it to work. I cut the top piece and two sides and got them to work together and then cut the bottom piece a little longer and continued to cut it little by little until it fit perfectly.
If you cut the head and legs to fit, isn't there a way to lay the bottom across the legs and just mark the angles from the legs?
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