This is the best TH-cam how to ive seen. This lady talks clearly and loudly enough to understand perfectly. No sound effects, no bells or whistles. Straight to the point by a master of her craft. Im your newest and biggest fan .
I’ve suffered so many frustrations in the past when making mitre cuts that didn’t work, and could never understand why. Now I know. You explain everything so well Leah and you inspire confidence. Love you. Love your channel x
As an educationalist, that was one of the best short explanations I’ve seen and heard: the problem clearly framed, principles succinctly explored and some great ‘ penny drop ‘ moments that don’t just show, but inspire. You are a born teacher.
I have watched woodworking videos every night for the past few months, yours are By far the most educational and very understandable, thank you sos so much for passing on your skills and knowledge.
Leah, I really needed you as my math teacher from 8th through 12th. Since that is impossible, I’ll stick to making bird feeders. You are an incredible teacher!
Thank you so much! I work with career finish carpenters who do not know this! They play the guessing game and chase the angle down, I was frustrated by that and I am very happy I found your video!
For those who do not have a digital angle gauge: Take a sheet of paper and lay it along one side of the wall so the corner of the paper just hits the inside of the corner of the wall. If the angle is acute, less than 90 degrees, there will be some extra paper against the wall on the other side of the angle. Fold that paper down so the paper just fits the angle and crease the fold. Now fold one side of your paper angle against the other side so the new angle starts at the corner and both sides are together. This paper angle shows how you need to mark your wood. You have just bisected an angle. For angles larger than 90, lay one piece of paper into the angle along one side and another piece along the other side so the corners meet at the corner of the room. Tape or glue them together and fold to make your half-angle. This also works for outside corners - Lay one piece against one side so it extends beyond the corner. Add another sheet from the other side and glue together. Fold and you will have the setting for an outside corner. No numbers have been mentioned. When I was replacing molding for a 3-window bay, no two angles were the same either at the base or the crown. Using this method all my trim fit exactly. Not a great carpenter but decent at geometry. Hope this helps.
This is helpful but sometimes the acute side is bigger and when not, the amount to fold usually isn't big so hard to do so but better than having no tools for sure!
In the middle of watching your video (first off I want to say as always, LOVE YOUR CHANNEL LEAH!!) :) I can remember in 10th grade thinking in H.S. geometry class, when am I going to sue geometry in real life? BOOM RIGHT HERE! Thank you again Leah!!
Nothing wrong with that saw, Most of if not all brand name saws are great saws no matter the age, the only thing worth changing is the blade, whenever possible up grade your blade and using the correct blade makes a world of difference. ..love the Freud, Freud blades can make cheap no brand mitre saws decent enough for any homeowner who enjoys dabbling in home repairs.
There's tear out because the base isnt flat. Could just add a piece of wood under the piece being cut. The base is wood because it doesnt rotate with the blade like newer saws do.
A nice old school DeWalt or really old School Skill or Sears. Or maybe she already has a great saw. I have meeky old Makita that tables from 65 degrees all the way back to 70 degrees on the other side. Weird coloured almost Hitachi green with a metal riveted Makita tag. You could offer me $2,000 for it and I would definitely say no.
Leah, you're my hero! This is the second time you solve a problem for me. Those miters on baseboard for a staircase were driving me crazy. I came up with the formula 90 - x/2. "X" being the acute angle you want to divide. It works, but I wasn't really understanding the logic. I like your method and your explanation. Thank you. Solves a lot of second guessing myself.
That’s great! I never understood why it was so difficult getting a correct cut when doing trim with a compound miter saw and now I do! Leah, your awesome! Thanks!
Leah you are my hero. I've taken an interest in carpentry and have been doing increasingly challenging projects. With each project I have to learn a new technique or need a new power tool. Your videos have been so very helpful in helping me build my projects. Thank you so very much for your instructional videos.
OMG Leah, thank you so, so, so very much for your TH-cam channel. I stumbled across your channel and watch at least one or two a day. I have learned more from you in such a short period of time and hope that you continue to help me, plus all of your other audience. Please keep the videos coming. I hope to get through them all. Thank you from a DIY'er in Alberta, Canada.
Not only am I glad to have found you but so is my home. Now I will be able to attack my to-do-list with your personal instructions in your videos. Thanks for being here.
Great tutorial! Cutting angles is an easily misunderstood process. I am really enjoying the videos on your channel. At 39 years of age I am finally cutting my teeth when it comes to using tools. This channel has great information for any newbie like myself.
Oh my goodness.... God bless you!!! Im trying to make a hexagonal wedding arch and was looking for a miter saw that had 60 degree bevel cuts on it not realizing I need to cut it at 30 degrees 😂😂😂😂 you are AWESOME!!! None of the videos I've watched explained that and I kept wondering what I was doing wrong
Honestly, you have saved us so many times! My partner and I started watching your videos when we were trying to figure out crown molding. Then from there its been project after project! Now with the new home in upstate we kinda bit off more than we were ready for. We watch you and boom, something overwhelming becomes something we can do! Thank you so much, from the bottom of our DIY'ers hearts!
Leah, I'm in the middle of renovating one of my bathrooms and I had to take time out to say a big thank you to this video. It worked! As I said before, you've sent my confidence level off the scales! Thank you once again. Ms. seejanedrill Subscriber!
Wow. Thank you so much. You explained it brilliantly. I can't explain how I've been doing it for years but I can tell you I've been doing it the hard way. Thanks again.
You did this clip so long ago I don't know if you'll read this but - I'm building a tiny house (and started out knowing NOTHING!) But when I am attempting a new skill I hear you saying, "You can do this" and I just keep at it until the task is done. You are the voice in my head!
Thanks so much for sharing! I wish I had you for my Industrial Arts teacher back in the day. You get what the novice, novice do-it-yourselfer needs to know and may not know what she or he needs to know. I was only into the first 50 secs of your video and was wowed how you already had anticipated potential problems. I wish I had come across this info 10 yrs. ago when I was trying to cut crown molding for a cedar closet for my wife.:)
I've been woodworking for a long time & never knew that! Leah I wish you would've been there when I wasted all that wood going crazy wondering why my cuts were off! You're so awesome!
Hi Leah, Thank you for the great info, I have struggled many times trying to make these cut thinking it was the saw, not me. Just recently found your channel trying to figure out how to some home improvement. You are a very lovely lady and pleasure to listen to, with a wealth of knowledge. Thank you
I absolutely LOVE your mitre saw! The old stuff is just the best! While most don’t have all the bells and whistles, it still has everything you need and It’s still running for a reason! I have a super old Thor bench grinder that just won’t die! It has been dropped several times and still runs like a… Thor!
My son just said he wants to be a carpenter. As a handyman and daddy I am speechless and very proud. Then a few minutes later I found this video. Love how you make even complicated look simple and explain it so eloquently. Always appreciate your videos.
Nice job teaching! So many vids do not cover all of the information needed. You did a great job. I would say your vid is one of the best I have ever seen. THANK YOU!
Once again, school is in session. and we're into the learning! Once shown, this becomes clear, and easy to follow. I love learning how to make my miter saw work even more accurate and effective, thanks!
I thought I was crazy at first having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Then I went back and watched the end of the video again and realized both boards got cut at 47.5 degrees; not one board at 47.5 and one board at 42.5. I kept asking myself "why are we adding up to 90 here!" Thanks Leah.
Leah, I have been in the industry for 20 years, i have worked with all kinds of great carpenters and builders yet none of them ever explained angles and miter cuts so thoroughly lie you have in this video. Many young apprentices tend to have a rough time understanding complementary angles, specially when it comes to exterior obtuse angles and interior acute angles. you have done a great job. Keep it up. It would be awesome if you could produce a compound miter cuts video.
Thank you, thank you! You explained and solved a problem that has haunted me on my projects. Your videos are fantastic! They have helped me so much with my current one with hanging crown molding. Thank you!
Thank you for such a clear explanation! I was going nuts trying to figure out my wrong angles when attempting crown molding. Now my next issue... my saw does not cut past 45 degrees 😤
I bought that same Husky digital angle finder and after owning it, every construction worker of any form really should have one b/c it can find 2-D angles or 3-D angles where as a speed square can not determine 3D angles (like outside/inside corners of a wall) and a speed square can not get into a lot of places that the angle finder can. So many construction workers do not know how to determine angles and/or determine what angle to set the miter saw on to get that angle. A lot of guys think if you set miter saw at a certain angle, then you will get that angle on either the toe or heel after the cut but that will only happen on 45 degree setting. Its so simple but you cant tell someone who wants to appear like they know everything already even when its clear they dont have the foggiest clue what they're doing. Thank you for making this video b/c its probably the thing more construction workers struggle with is determining angles and determining what miter/bevel angle setting to achieve that angle. The non-digital angle finders don't really work in tandem with a miter saw b/c you gotta know what numerical angle the angle is. Trying to line miter saw blade with the manual angle finders takes too long and/or marking tricks to bisect an angle that you have scribed also takes too long. Having the number of the angle is what you need.
Omgosh! It WORKED!!! 😲🤯😃🥰 THANK YOU SO MUCH! I can't begin to tell you how much I have hated cutting 90° angles on trim work! I'm a learn as I go DIY'er and this girl couldn't figure out this one task! I don't have the digital angle tool you have but I do have a square and I KNOW my pieces were cut at 45° (I'm adding trim to a flat interior door) drawing out my design with a ruler and a precise/accurate square. Anyways, I used your logic and it worked! Woo-hoo!!!😂👍🤓 THANK YOU again!❤
Briliant! Very nice clear explanation, and a really good idea to show how setting the angle initially worked out wrong. Doing the cut and showing it didn’t work helps to to reinforce how then to go on and do it right.
So I’ve been learning how to sew mitred corners. The videos I’ve seen “just show you how to do it.” This is so much more helpful! I may actually remember how to do it now!
@@seejanedrill both my father (carpenter), my mother and husband are lefties. i learned to a lot of stuff as lefties do and it is actually easier. 👍👍👍👍👍😁
THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! I've been searching video after video trying to make sure I'm using this digital angle finder right. Your video was simple, very informative and exactly what I needed. Thank you! 👍👍👍👍👍
Old school DeWalt, a division of B & D saw. I bet that has seen a lot of use over the years. As for messing around with finding the right angles, sometimes it is just easier to cope everything and call it a day.
This very well may be the most informative video on TH-cam, with relation to shop tools and cuts based on angles. Great video and information! You’ve gained a subscriber out of me!
Yeah but it's something so important to learn what she just showed us. It will help tremendously in the future. You know its pretty rare to find a 90 angle. With settling of houses, lazy dry wall installers ect. Besides it's useful in so many other situations as well. Not just dry wall corners
Mike DEEZ yes and adding tape and mud in corners then makes it an acute angle. Just like adding corner bead to outside corner affects overall angle. So regardless if you frame it square after drywall taping it’s no longer a 90. And there’s a word for trim guys whose saws are stuck on 45. Hack. If you cope the inside corners you don’t have these problems
Im a plasterer and I build my frames square, I board the square frame making the board square as it’s followed the frame. I then use 3mm thin coat angle bead which I then plaster with 3mm coat of plaster making it square. I’m not American so we plaster our walls not mud and tape or whatever you call it so I can’t talk for you guys I’m afraid.
I would give you many likes if I can. This was presented and explained so clearly and also very thoroughly. I wish more people would present and explain their videos like this. It was very helpful to see how cutting at 42.5 degrees doesn't work, then showing how to correct for that by cutting at 47.5 degrees. That wouldn't occur to most people. Most people would just cut at 47.5 degrees and not only that, it wouldn't even occur to them to explain why. I just subscribed. I think I'm going to have to watch some more of your videos. Keep them coming!
Made it more complicated then it really is. If 85° (Acute angle) subtract from 180 and devide by 2 180- 85°= 95°÷2= 47.5° if 95° (obtuse angle) greater then 90 divide by 2 180° - 95°= 85 ÷ 2 = 42.5° 3rd grade math.
Using a Miter Saw Protractor (miter protractor) will take all the guess work out. This video definitely helped me understand though. Thanks! ... For anyone having trouble understanding this at first, just remember that in your head, you need to be starting out with the number 180 (straight line), not 90. If you start with 180 then minus the angle measured (85, in this video for example) you will get 95. Then, you take 95 and divide by 2 for your answer of 47.5. So, you cut 2 pieces at 47.5 and you are good to go!
Thank you Leah i learned something new about Angles and the 90 degrees on the miter saw ive been fighting the miters for years you have Taught me something very important thank you so much
You are awesome. I don’t know why no one has ever explained this to me. I have been building cabinets and doing trim carpentry for too many years. Thanks for your wonderfully simple video.
Good video. I think your explanation would have been more understandable if you had said "the finished miter cuts need to be 42.5° each (42.5° + 42.5° = 87°) therefore we need to cut way 47.5° each because the miter saw cuts the complementary angle, not the desired angle, except for 45° and 90° cuts." You did say that but at a round about way.
Boy - how many times have I been stung by this one, and end up scratching my head, triple checking angles, numbers and so forth - still - to come out with a bad cut. This made it all come together! Thank you Leah!
With a ninety degree angle the cut is fourty-five degrees each side, but as an oddly shaped angle is less than 90 the halving does not work. each piece of wood in a 90 degree mitre is 45 degrees, but you have to halve the actual measurement in an odd angle then take that from ninety, rather than just halving the measurement. If it is 85 degrees as demonstrated it is 90 degrees less forty two and a half degrees, which is forty seven and a half degrees as the cut. If you measure 85 degrees and half it then you get forty two and a half degrees, five degrees short. (eighty five and five = ninety).
me andyou so if you were doing an abuse angle at say 94 degrees, how would that work out? 94/2= 47 90-47= 43 So you would set the saw at 43 ? And would you be setting that 43 in reference to numbers Leah wrote on the tape in her mitre saw?
Wow.. thank you Leah. The light bulb went off. I cant tell you how many hours of head scratching that fixed for me! My stair well top hand panel almost put me in therapy. NOW i see what was going on... lord. Thank you thank you!
Noconz0727 MC it was an acute angle not an obtuse. Wrong formula but it does speculate why she didnt show people the easy math trick instead of this method. This takes more time
I know this is an older video but want to say thank you. I posted on woodworking forums to try to find out why my cuts weren’t working. Had tons of recommendations that didn’t work until I saw this.
You could of used the first cuts to make the 85 degree angle, you just used the wrong pieces.. It really doesn't matter if you cut at 42.5 or 47.5, it just matters from which side of the saw you measure your cut, because in both cases you get 2 pieces of wood from the cut that are 42.5 and 47.5 degrees.
When you use a miter saw, you get 2 cuts of wood. If you use the saw set on a 90 degree angle you get 2 pieces and both are 90 degrees. If you set the saw to 45 you get 2 pieces that both are 45 degrees. If you set the saw to 42.5 you get a piece that is 42.5 and one that is 47.5 If you set the saw to 47.5 you get a piece that is 47.5 and one that is 42.5. Same thing with lets say 60 degrees, it makes no difference if you set your saw to 60 or 30 degrees, it all depends from which side of the wood you measure to the cut. What Leah mentioned here is convenient, so you can always measure from the same side, but really isn't necessary.
I can understand why you would think that, but that is not correct. You are measuring your angle with a protractor or an angle gauge. But the angles on a miter saw gauge are not the same...they are off by 90 degrees from the angles on the protractor. Thus, if you try to make your cut exactly the same as what you read on the angle gauge, it will be incorrect every time. It doesn't have anything to do with which pieces you are using. That's why finish carpenters make acute angle jigs to use in combination with their miter saws.
Actually, when you cut across a straight board, at any angle, you get pieces with equal angles. You don't get angles that add up to 90 every time. If you set your saw to 60 degrees, you get 2 pieces that are each 60 deg.
I am so happy that I stumbled onto this site, you have cleared up a lot of mystery that I have questioned for years. Keep on doing a great job explaining things Luis.
Leah,you are amazing! I now try projects that I would have never attempted before watching your videos. You are a true blessing! Thank you so much for all that you do!
This is the best TH-cam how to ive seen.
This lady talks clearly and loudly enough to understand perfectly.
No sound effects, no bells or whistles.
Straight to the point by a master of her craft.
Im your newest and biggest fan .
And no dumb music in the background! That can be so annoying and distracting. Love all her videos!
I’ve suffered so many frustrations in the past when making mitre cuts that didn’t work, and could never understand why. Now I know. You explain everything so well Leah and you inspire confidence. Love you. Love your channel x
I feel your pain! Everything is easy once you learn how to do it! One would think a mitre saw would be set up to mitre!
You could subtract 85 from 180, then divide by 2. This always gives you the answer you want to set your saw at, without the need for the tape.
thanks, for me thats much easier.
th-cam.com/video/6lM5VosHvcM/w-d-xo.html shes has that method aswell
Nice one bro
2,920,261 views Jan 29, 2015 her video from then explains that, but the tape is also useful as a guide.
Much simpler, thank you
As an educationalist, that was one of the best short explanations I’ve seen and heard: the problem clearly framed, principles succinctly explored and some great ‘ penny drop ‘ moments that don’t just show, but inspire. You are a born teacher.
"Educationalist"?? lol
ditto @@michaelwayne7887
Perfect example of something so simple, but no one ever explained it to me before. Now it makes sense, thanks Leah.
Just don’t understand the tape ??😢
I have watched woodworking videos every night for the past few months, yours are By far the most educational and very understandable, thank you sos so much for passing on your skills and knowledge.
Leah, I really needed you as my math teacher from 8th through 12th. Since that is impossible, I’ll stick to making bird feeders.
You are an incredible teacher!
Thank you so much! I work with career finish carpenters who do not know this! They play the guessing game and chase the angle down, I was frustrated by that and I am very happy I found your video!
Ms. Leah, I bought one of those digital bevels the other day and I couldn't understand how to use it. I learned so much from you today. Thanks!
For those who do not have a digital angle gauge: Take a sheet of paper and lay it along one side of the wall so the corner of the paper just hits the inside of the corner of the wall. If the angle is acute, less than 90 degrees, there will be some extra paper against the wall on the other side of the angle. Fold that paper down so the paper just fits the angle and crease the fold. Now fold one side of your paper angle against the other side so the new angle starts at the corner and both sides are together. This paper angle shows how you need to mark your wood. You have just bisected an angle. For angles larger than 90, lay one piece of paper into the angle along one side and another piece along the other side so the corners meet at the corner of the room. Tape or glue them together and fold to make your half-angle. This also works for outside corners - Lay one piece against one side so it extends beyond the corner. Add another sheet from the other side and glue together. Fold and you will have the setting for an outside corner. No numbers have been mentioned. When I was replacing molding for a 3-window bay, no two angles were the same either at the base or the crown. Using this method all my trim fit exactly. Not a great carpenter but decent at geometry. Hope this helps.
This is helpful but sometimes the acute side is bigger and when not, the amount to fold usually isn't big so hard to do so but better than having no tools for sure!
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What is the name of the tool that helps you saw it in the angel?
Hi Leah very informative video, also if you take the 85, from 180, then split the difference and you’ll get the perfect cut. Thanks a lot
thanks for sharing!
Ok..another good way to work it out...thx!!
So by this methods 2# 47.5° cut would fit that 85° inner angle?
@@xo_dre0728 her cut was also 47.5. He's sharing a mathematical way to get to the same answer.
@@bengrumbles9830 - That's where the complementary angle comes in. In this case, 95 degrees (the complentary angle to 85 degrees) ÷ 2 = 47.5.
In the middle of watching your video (first off I want to say as always, LOVE YOUR CHANNEL LEAH!!) :) I can remember in 10th grade thinking in H.S. geometry class, when am I going to sue geometry in real life? BOOM RIGHT HERE! Thank you again Leah!!
I love TH-cam and fine folks like you. I'm sure I was taught this 35 years ago but my attention span wasn't very high back then. Thank you.
You are a great teacher, you deserve a new chop saw👍
Lol
Truth is, that old chop saw prob works better than any new one.. So long as the blades sharp lol
Nothing wrong with that saw, Most of if not all brand name saws are great saws no matter the age, the only thing worth changing is the blade, whenever possible up grade your blade and using the correct blade makes a world of difference. ..love the Freud, Freud blades can make cheap no brand mitre saws decent enough for any homeowner who enjoys dabbling in home repairs.
There's tear out because the base isnt flat. Could just add a piece of wood under the piece being cut. The base is wood because it doesnt rotate with the blade like newer saws do.
A nice old school DeWalt or really old School Skill or Sears. Or maybe she already has a great saw. I have meeky old Makita that tables from 65 degrees all the way back to 70 degrees on the other side. Weird coloured almost Hitachi green with a metal riveted Makita tag. You could offer me $2,000 for it and I would definitely say no.
Leah should have her own Saturday morning woodworking show, she would be great at it!
Leah, you're my hero! This is the second time you solve a problem for me. Those miters on baseboard for a staircase were driving me crazy. I came up with the formula 90 - x/2. "X" being the acute angle you want to divide. It works, but I wasn't really understanding the logic. I like your method and your explanation. Thank you. Solves a lot of second guessing myself.
I'm a 50 year old dyslexic starting a new lifestyle and each one of your shows has made it a little bit easier too accomplish thank you for doing this
YOU ARE A LIFESAVER! I have watched so many videos on acute angles.....and NO ONE explained it like you did. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
That’s great! I never understood why it was so difficult getting a correct cut when doing trim with a compound miter saw and now I do! Leah, your awesome! Thanks!
Leah you are my hero. I've taken an interest in carpentry and have been doing increasingly challenging projects. With each project I have to learn a new technique or need a new power tool. Your videos have been so very helpful in helping me build my projects. Thank you so very much for your instructional videos.
you're very welcome! 🙂
OMG Leah, thank you so, so, so very much for your TH-cam channel. I stumbled across your channel and watch at least one or two a day. I have learned more from you in such a short period of time and hope that you continue to help me, plus all of your other audience. Please keep the videos coming. I hope to get through them all. Thank you from a DIY'er in Alberta, Canada.
you're very welcome, Ellen! Welcome to our channel! Glad you found us. 🙂
Not only am I glad to have found you but so is my home. Now I will be able to attack my to-do-list with your personal instructions in your videos. Thanks for being here.
She's a saint. Lol :)
I was about to make a 45 degree cut for the first time ever and oh thank god I stopped by your video!!!! I am so thankful you put this video up!
Great tutorial! Cutting angles is an easily misunderstood process. I am really enjoying the videos on your channel. At 39 years of age I am finally cutting my teeth when it comes to using tools. This channel has great information for any newbie like myself.
Oh my goodness.... God bless you!!! Im trying to make a hexagonal wedding arch and was looking for a miter saw that had 60 degree bevel cuts on it not realizing I need to cut it at 30 degrees 😂😂😂😂 you are AWESOME!!! None of the videos I've watched explained that and I kept wondering what I was doing wrong
Honestly, you have saved us so many times! My partner and I started watching your videos when we were trying to figure out crown molding. Then from there its been project after project! Now with the new home in upstate we kinda bit off more than we were ready for. We watch you and boom, something overwhelming becomes something we can do! Thank you so much, from the bottom of our DIY'ers hearts!
I wish you continued success with your home!
Leah, I'm in the middle of renovating one of my bathrooms and I had to take time out to say a big thank you to this video. It worked! As I said before, you've sent my confidence level off the scales! Thank you once again. Ms. seejanedrill Subscriber!
Wow. Thank you so much. You explained it brilliantly. I can't explain how I've been doing it for years but I can tell you I've been doing it the hard way. Thanks again.
You did this clip so long ago I don't know if you'll read this but - I'm building a tiny house (and started out knowing NOTHING!) But when I am attempting a new skill I hear you saying, "You can do this" and I just keep at it until the task is done. You are the voice in my head!
Thanks so much for sharing! I wish I had you for my Industrial Arts teacher back in the day. You get what the novice, novice do-it-yourselfer needs to know and may not know what she or he needs to know. I was only into the first 50 secs of your video and was wowed how you already had anticipated potential problems. I wish I had come across this info 10 yrs. ago when I was trying to cut crown molding for a cedar closet for my wife.:)
I've been woodworking for a long time & never knew that! Leah I wish you would've been there when I wasted all that wood going crazy wondering why my cuts were off! You're so awesome!
Every time I watch one of your videos I quietly say “I love you” haha
Thanks for the knowledge!!!
So true 👍
Hi Leah, Thank you for the great info, I have struggled many times trying to make these cut thinking it was the saw, not me. Just recently found your channel trying to figure out how to some home improvement. You are a very lovely lady and
pleasure to listen to, with a wealth of knowledge. Thank you
you're very welcome, Charlie. Glad you found us, and welcome to our channel!
Leah, you've brought me up to a new level of perfection!!
I absolutely LOVE your mitre saw!
The old stuff is just the best! While most don’t have all the bells and whistles, it still has everything you need and It’s still running for a reason!
I have a super old Thor bench grinder that just won’t die! It has been dropped several times and still runs like a… Thor!
Thanks Leah! Now I won’t stare blankly at my miter saw waiting for it to tell me what I did wrong. 😄
My son just said he wants to be a carpenter. As a handyman and daddy I am speechless and very proud. Then a few minutes later I found this video. Love how you make even complicated look simple and explain it so eloquently. Always appreciate your videos.
Omg I love you Leah. That was something I was trying to figure out on my own for a while.
Nice job teaching! So many vids do not cover all of the information needed. You did a great job. I would say your vid is one of the best I have ever seen. THANK YOU!
Thank you 😊.... I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with this rookie trim carpenter 😄
Once again, school is in session. and we're into the learning! Once shown, this becomes clear, and easy to follow. I love learning how to make my miter saw work even more accurate and effective, thanks!
I wish you taught me geometry in high school! Thank you so much for your videos- I can't tell you how much you have helped me! Thank you, thank you!
you're very welcome! Glad to be of help.
You put me in the right state of mind!!!!! Priceless Leah thank you again and again and once again
Leigh, you make me feel like this ole granny can do this. Thank you for another informative video.
you CAN do it, Debra! thanks so much for watching!
Thank you so much for pouring so much confidence in us , whom have never changed a toilet, cut wood etc
Just thank you!!!
These presentations are well planned. You can learn a lot here.
Thank you.Because of your excellent teaching skills, I made my first ever perfect outside miter cut. I am looking forward to doing this as well.
I thought I was crazy at first having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Then I went back and watched the end of the video again and realized both boards got cut at 47.5 degrees; not one board at 47.5 and one board at 42.5. I kept asking myself "why are we adding up to 90 here!" Thanks Leah.
It does take a minute to sort it...glad you figured it out!
You are the only person I have come across to explain this oddity in such a simple manner! Thank you.
"Those who teach, learn".
Best explanation ive seen yet, great video!
Leah, I have been in the industry for 20 years, i have worked with all kinds of great carpenters and builders yet none of them ever explained angles and miter cuts so thoroughly lie you have in this video. Many young apprentices tend to have a rough time understanding complementary angles, specially when it comes to exterior obtuse angles and interior acute angles. you have done a great job. Keep it up. It would be awesome if you could produce a compound miter cuts video.
Love this channel, love this lady
Me too! Informative, and a great speaking voice!
Thank you, thank you! You explained and solved a problem that has haunted me on my projects. Your videos are fantastic! They have helped me so much with my current one with hanging crown molding. Thank you!
Hey leigh, great video. Solid information. This will stop alot of head scratching.
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OMG.... until now I learned how to do this....THANK YOU SO MUCH....My husband will appreciate this awesome video.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS.
Thank you for such a clear explanation! I was going nuts trying to figure out my wrong angles when attempting crown molding. Now my next issue... my saw does not cut past 45 degrees 😤
i think u have to build a new wall.. lmao
There is a trick for cutting past 45 degrees. Here you go! th-cam.com/video/VNFjzMmi6NE/w-d-xo.html
Turn the board 90 degrees.
I'm learning a whole lot from you young lady. Thank you so very much. At 61 years young, I'm still learning new things in wood working.
A Geometry lesson I can understand! Thank you so much.
Happy Thanksgiving to all y’all!
you're welcome, Elaine, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well!
Hi Leah, you are the smartest person on You Tube ! I love watching your video's and the way you explain things are easy to understand.
Great one Leah. I have learned something new today, thanks
you're very welcome, Amirhousein!
I bought that same Husky digital angle finder and after owning it, every construction worker of any form really should have one b/c it can find 2-D angles or 3-D angles where as a speed square can not determine 3D angles (like outside/inside corners of a wall) and a speed square can not get into a lot of places that the angle finder can. So many construction workers do not know how to determine angles and/or determine what angle to set the miter saw on to get that angle. A lot of guys think if you set miter saw at a certain angle, then you will get that angle on either the toe or heel after the cut but that will only happen on 45 degree setting. Its so simple but you cant tell someone who wants to appear like they know everything already even when its clear they dont have the foggiest clue what they're doing. Thank you for making this video b/c its probably the thing more construction workers struggle with is determining angles and determining what miter/bevel angle setting to achieve that angle. The non-digital angle finders don't really work in tandem with a miter saw b/c you gotta know what numerical angle the angle is. Trying to line miter saw blade with the manual angle finders takes too long and/or marking tricks to bisect an angle that you have scribed also takes too long. Having the number of the angle is what you need.
Oh, that's such a great tip. And you're right, of course, it was a cute angle. :)
LOL!
Thanks so much. All the years I've been doing work on all my own renatl houses, I never knew this until today. thank you again Leah. Sincerely,
- Kirk
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Appreciate it.
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Omgosh! It WORKED!!! 😲🤯😃🥰 THANK YOU SO MUCH! I can't begin to tell you how much I have hated cutting 90° angles on trim work! I'm a learn as I go DIY'er and this girl couldn't figure out this one task! I don't have the digital angle tool you have but I do have a square and I KNOW my pieces were cut at 45° (I'm adding trim to a flat interior door) drawing out my design with a ruler and a precise/accurate square.
Anyways, I used your logic and it worked! Woo-hoo!!!😂👍🤓
THANK YOU again!❤
Thanks Leah. I never used to understand that. Appreciate the video.
you're very welcome, Joe!
Briliant! Very nice clear explanation, and a really good idea to show how setting the angle initially worked out wrong. Doing the cut and showing it didn’t work helps to to reinforce how then to go on and do it right.
Great video! I use a simple method as well, take your degree° plus+ 90 then minus -180 equals= degree needed to be used.
Degree+90-180=X
So I’ve been learning how to sew mitred corners. The videos I’ve seen “just show you how to do it.” This is so much more helpful! I may actually remember how to do it now!
Best part of the whole video was I figured out how you think since I discovered were both left handers!
👍 lefties
@@seejanedrill both my father (carpenter), my mother and husband are lefties. i learned to a lot of stuff as lefties do and it is actually easier. 👍👍👍👍👍😁
These videos are really awesome. You explain things in a relaxing voice and language to the novice.
You're the best Leah!
thanks!
THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! I've been searching video after video trying to make sure I'm using this digital angle finder right. Your video was simple, very informative and exactly what I needed. Thank you! 👍👍👍👍👍
As a beginner I had no idea how you decided on the second cut.
Great video Leah. I use these machines every day and never thought of angles in the same way.
Old school DeWalt, a division of B & D saw. I bet that has seen a lot of use over the years. As for messing around with finding the right angles, sometimes it is just easier to cope everything and call it a day.
I bought that saw off the head carpenter on a jobsite very early in my career. I haven't been able to part with it. As for coping, I agree!
I noticed that old school de walt too. Most ppl don't know B&D owns DW. And I totally agree about the coping when you can.
Can I just tell you that you are AWESOME Leah. Thank you so much, I was about to lose my mind here with these angels lol
Hi Leah 😊 Thank you, that was really helpful ॐ
you're very welcome!
This very well may be the most informative video on TH-cam, with relation to shop tools and cuts based on angles. Great video and information! You’ve gained a subscriber out of me!
Blame the drywall finishers... I frame my walls square everytime.. :)
Yeah but it's something so important to learn what she just showed us. It will help tremendously in the future. You know its pretty rare to find a 90 angle. With settling of houses, lazy dry wall installers ect. Besides it's useful in so many other situations as well. Not just dry wall corners
Mike DEEZ yes and adding tape and mud in corners then makes it an acute angle. Just like adding corner bead to outside corner affects overall angle. So regardless if you frame it square after drywall taping it’s no longer a 90. And there’s a word for trim guys whose saws are stuck on 45. Hack. If you cope the inside corners you don’t have these problems
Im a plasterer and I build my frames square, I board the square frame making the board square as it’s followed the frame. I then use 3mm thin coat angle bead which I then plaster with 3mm coat of plaster making it square. I’m not American so we plaster our walls not mud and tape or whatever you call it so I can’t talk for you guys I’m afraid.
I would give you many likes if I can. This was presented and explained so clearly and also very thoroughly. I wish more people would present and explain their videos like this. It was very helpful to see how cutting at 42.5 degrees doesn't work, then showing how to correct for that by cutting at 47.5 degrees. That wouldn't occur to most people. Most people would just cut at 47.5 degrees and not only that, it wouldn't even occur to them to explain why.
I just subscribed. I think I'm going to have to watch some more of your videos. Keep them coming!
Made it more complicated then it really is.
If 85° (Acute angle) subtract from 180 and devide by 2
180- 85°= 95°÷2= 47.5°
if 95° (obtuse angle) greater then 90 divide by 2
180° - 95°= 85 ÷ 2 = 42.5°
3rd grade math.
Tanks
You just made it more complex.... 🤣
You can cut above 45 on a mitre saw but takes a bit of explaining
Wht if my max is 45 how doni cut 47.5
@@MrR3DUC3 got to you tube channel finish carpentry. Look up video cutting more angles
Using a Miter Saw Protractor (miter protractor) will take all the guess work out. This video definitely helped me understand though. Thanks! ... For anyone having trouble understanding this at first, just remember that in your head, you need to be starting out with the number 180 (straight line), not 90. If you start with 180 then minus the angle measured (85, in this video for example) you will get 95. Then, you take 95 and divide by 2 for your answer of 47.5. So, you cut 2 pieces at 47.5 and you are good to go!
Just freakin AWESOME. Thnk u so much for the wisdom & knowledge that u take time to share with me/us. U r awesomeness manifested on earth 👍 👀 🤙
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Thank you Leah i learned something new about Angles and the 90 degrees on the miter saw ive been fighting the miters for years you have Taught me something very important thank you so much
you're very welcome, Melvin, it was my pleasure
I wish I looked at this earlier today. Would have saved a lot of head scratching.
Me too!🤪
LOVE Leah’s ability to communicate!!!! Thanks Leah😊
You should hashtag the companies about this : )
You are awesome. I don’t know why no one has ever explained this to me. I have been building cabinets and doing trim carpentry for too many years. Thanks for your wonderfully simple video.
Good video. I think your explanation would have been more understandable if you had said "the finished miter cuts need to be 42.5° each (42.5° + 42.5° = 87°) therefore we need to cut way 47.5° each because the miter saw cuts the complementary angle, not the desired angle, except for 45° and 90° cuts." You did say that but at a round about way.
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yes but 42.5 + 42.5 = 85, not 87.5. minor quibble but it may have tripped some up
Mitre Cutting angle = 90° - (a/2) where a= measured angle of the corner you want to mitre
Boy - how many times have I been stung by this one, and end up scratching my head, triple checking angles, numbers and so forth - still - to come out with a bad cut. This made it all come together! Thank you Leah!
you're very welcome, Dan! I'm glad it was helpful.
It is is the first time watching leaving confused
With a ninety degree angle the cut is fourty-five degrees each side, but as an oddly shaped angle is less than 90 the halving does not work. each piece of wood in a 90 degree mitre is 45 degrees, but you have to halve the actual measurement in an odd angle then take that from ninety, rather than just halving the measurement. If it is 85 degrees as demonstrated it is 90 degrees less forty two and a half degrees, which is forty seven and a half degrees as the cut. If you measure 85 degrees and half it then you get forty two and a half degrees, five degrees short. (eighty five and five = ninety).
180-85= 95
95÷2= 47.5
47.5° is the angle
me andyou so if you were doing an abuse angle at say 94 degrees, how would that work out?
94/2= 47
90-47= 43
So you would set the saw at 43 ? And would you be setting that 43 in reference to numbers Leah wrote on the tape in her mitre saw?
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12345 12345 does this work with crown outside corner to.
You are the greatest TH-camr in this field ❤️ you explain things better then most people you are appreciated
Inside corners should always be copped
Wow.. thank you Leah. The light bulb went off. I cant tell you how many hours of head scratching that fixed for me! My stair well top hand panel almost put me in therapy. NOW i see what was going on... lord. Thank you thank you!
(180-angle)/2
Noconz0727 MC it was an acute angle not an obtuse. Wrong formula but it does speculate why she didnt show people the easy math trick instead of this method. This takes more time
I know this is an older video but want to say thank you. I posted on woodworking forums to try to find out why my cuts weren’t working. Had tons of recommendations that didn’t work until I saw this.
You could of used the first cuts to make the 85 degree angle, you just used the wrong pieces.. It really doesn't matter if you cut at 42.5 or 47.5, it just matters from which side of the saw you measure your cut, because in both cases you get 2 pieces of wood from the cut that are 42.5 and 47.5 degrees.
Would you explain "Used the wrong pieces" a bit more. I would like to understand this. Thanks
When you use a miter saw, you get 2 cuts of wood. If you use the saw set on a 90 degree angle you get 2 pieces and both are 90 degrees.
If you set the saw to 45 you get 2 pieces that both are 45 degrees.
If you set the saw to 42.5 you get a piece that is 42.5 and one that is 47.5
If you set the saw to 47.5 you get a piece that is 47.5 and one that is 42.5.
Same thing with lets say 60 degrees, it makes no difference if you set your saw to 60 or 30 degrees, it all depends from which side of the wood you measure to the cut. What Leah mentioned here is convenient, so you can always measure from the same side, but really isn't necessary.
I can understand why you would think that, but that is not correct. You are measuring your angle with a protractor or an angle gauge. But the angles on a miter saw gauge are not the same...they are off by 90 degrees from the angles on the protractor. Thus, if you try to make your cut exactly the same as what you read on the angle gauge, it will be incorrect every time. It doesn't have anything to do with which pieces you are using. That's why finish carpenters make acute angle jigs to use in combination with their miter saws.
Actually, when you cut across a straight board, at any angle, you get pieces with equal angles. You don't get angles that add up to 90 every time. If you set your saw to 60 degrees, you get 2 pieces that are each 60 deg.
Thank you; all is clear.
I am so happy that I stumbled onto this site, you have cleared up a lot of mystery that I have questioned for years. Keep on doing a great job explaining things Luis.
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I rather mark lines with a piece of wood I’m working with get a perfect angle every time
Can you explain how to do think and or link a video. I have seen roofers do this in the past I think with 4x8 sheets
Leah,you are amazing! I now try projects that I would have never attempted before watching your videos. You are a true blessing! Thank you so much for all that you do!