02-27-2017, 05:31 PM
Hi all,
The other day I saw a video of a guy doing a different type of spline on a box with mitered corners. I can't find it ( should have saved it dummy).
Anyway he used a square bit in a RT. He ran each board flat on the table, miter side down with the point against the fence. He cut half of a square on each 45 surface.
when he was done each corner had an internal square that he put a square spline in.
It seems like this would be a simple way to add strength to a miter joint and make alignment easy.
Has anyone seen or tried this? is there a downside I'm not seeing?
Sorry, I'm not good with graphics or I'd have sketched this out to show you. Hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
Thanks
Jim
The other day I saw a video of a guy doing a different type of spline on a box with mitered corners. I can't find it ( should have saved it dummy).
Anyway he used a square bit in a RT. He ran each board flat on the table, miter side down with the point against the fence. He cut half of a square on each 45 surface.
when he was done each corner had an internal square that he put a square spline in.
It seems like this would be a simple way to add strength to a miter joint and make alignment easy.
Has anyone seen or tried this? is there a downside I'm not seeing?
Sorry, I'm not good with graphics or I'd have sketched this out to show you. Hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
Thanks
Jim
-- jbmaine