I was going to practice my miters for my next box but now I’ve seen this. Dang it, Dale! Your simple solutions have made my life more complex. Now I can’t decide which to do first. Maybe if I binge watch your past work I can figure it out. 😎
You're a certified genius Dale, that's a joint that would look great on a small gift box, I've never got the hang of finger joints, always seem to manage to get something wrong somewhere, but your simple solution is just what I need, thanks for the great video, take care.
Great question and after uploading is when I realized I never went into that. The spacers, whether using a drill bit, setup block spacers, or custom made ones are needed so that you take into account the width of your blade. The width of your blade is called a kerf. Common widths are 1/8" or 3/32". Whatever you use needs to be the thickness of your blade kerf. If you do not do that your joints will be off exactly 1 blade kerf in measurement. Harder to explain without visuals, but I'll try. When I made the first cuts that would be used to mark where I was cutting out the middle section that had the cut on the right side lining up with the right side of the blade. The cut on the left side lined up with the left side of the blade. Now when I was cutting the initial cuts to mark where I woulc remove the outside pieces it is kind of opposite. The cut on the right side is actually lining up with the left side of the blade and the cut on the left side is lining up with the right side of the blade. I need to shift the piece of wood over the exact width of the saw blade to counter-act the the blade has width. Reading over this and I do not think I am doing a good job explaining this so I think I'll create a short follow up video on this. I have another video I'm editing now so it will go out after. That way I can show what happens if you don't shift it 1 blade kerf and it will be so much easier to explain with visuals. So you don't miss it, if you want to subscribe I'd certainly appreciate it and if you click the bell it should notify you when new videos come out. I would expect this follow up in about 2 or 3 weeks as I only do this on the side and have a day job where I put in 50+ hours a week.
@@BronkBuilt haha youre right. a video would be easier to understand. i just presumed that without the spacer the joints would either be too loose or too tight...
I went ahead and added a video trying to explain my answer. I "think" I did an okay job explaining it. Would love it if you could take a look and see if it answers your question.
how would we prevent what looks like one of the boards being proud of the joint on each of these? Or is this just a thing that's going to happen and we have to account for it in our overall measurements for the project, and sand it down later.
Great question and I meant to talk about that but just forgot. Having them proud is better than to low because you can just sand them down. It means I had the blade just a touch high. I could have lowered it about a 16th but I prefer to have them slightly long and sand because there is not a lot you can do off they are short.
