Help Creating A Custom Tree Topper

It is hard to see on the picture, but 66+66+66 will give you 198 degrees.
The sum of angles i the triangle (any triangle!) is 180 degrees!

So if your triangle has all sides equal then all your angle should be 180/3=60 degrees.
And your miter saw should be set to 30 degrees (60/2).

Sorry if I am saying obvious – the picture is not readable to me

-- "It's getting better..." - put this on my RIP stone!

+1 on 60 degree angles if it’s an equilateral triangle. Can’t really tell from the image.

Cheers,
Brad

-- Brad in FL - In Dog I trust... everything else is questionable

So is there some reason the two bottom inside angles are 57 degrees and top one is 66? That does add up to 180 so it should work. For the cuts just set the saw for 1/2 of those angles….28.5 and 33 respectively.

Or as Torus cited above use three 60 degree angles. That will make it easier to fit your acrylic panels also as they will be symetrical.

-- Les B, Oregon

So is there some reason the two bottom inside angles are 57 degrees and top one is 66? That does add up to 180 so it should work. For the cuts just set the saw for 1/2 of those angles….28.5 and 33 respectively.

Or as Torus cited above use three 60 degree angles. That will make it easier to fit your acrylic panels also as they will be symetrical.

- LesB

Zelda’s “Triforce” isn’t an equilateral triangle, it’s slightly taller than it is wide. So unfortunately, that skews the dimensions a slight bit and complicates it. Normally, I’m not the type to be a perfectionist for design or anything, so I would go with what’s easiest. But when I rendered it as an equilateral triangle, I found that it just looked off from what I remember from the games and it bugs the heck out of me.

So I just set the saw to 33 for the cut? Because I did try that at first, and unless I did something wrong, the angle was far too shallow and the triangle’s top point was obtuse when it should have been more acute. Is there some difference when you’re cutting the angles on the edge (the part that’s 3/8s of an inch thick as opposed to the front of the board that’s 2 1/2 inches wide).

If not, it’s possible I just messed something up myself.