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  1. A Handcut Beaded Mitre Half-lap Picture Frame

    Though simple in appearance (a mitre and a half lap), a mitre half-lap joint is more demanding in accurate sawing than a typical dovetail joint or tenon joint. An error on either of the half will ruin the piece and unlike dovetails, you cannot shim your way out. A mitre jack...
  2. Mitre Jack

    One of my shop projects this fall was to make a mitre jack. Relatively simple project made from scrap wood in my shop but a great help for trimming up joinery. Plans were from a book from FWW; Benchcrafted also has a pretty detailed series about mitre jacks...
  3. Make Your Own Mitre Jack (for both hand-tool and power-tool woodworkers)

    A mitre jack is a precision tool that has many uses: http://www.leevalley.com/us/newsletters/Woodworking/5/5/collection.htm It gives the kind of precision that power tools are hard to match. Build it and you can finetune your mitres, squares and angled pieces with (almost) perfection. I made...
  4. Mitre jack

    Hello, first of all Merry Christmas for everyone. I´ve been working on a mitre jack, made of quarter sawn beech with a quarter sawn maple screw. I also made the brass hardware to attach the screw to the moving part. I have tryed it and it works great. If you usually make a lot of mitres it is...
  5. Blogs
    Bench appliances: Mitre jack Some time ago I stumbled across a mitre jack in an antiques shop. I had read references to them here on LJ's so I knew what it was. I had to do a repair and a lot of cleanup to get it working. After that I had to figure out how to use it on my bench. Once I got that...
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