I recently made some cherry trim for a desk and needed to cut 22.5 degree miters. My miter saw isn't exactly a precision instrument so I decided to cut them by hand with a sharp backsaw and a miter box.
It went fairly well but one or two of the pieces were just a hair too long so I decided I needed a router jig to fix things. I thought about it for days; toggle clamps and t-slots and...
Then I ended up going super simple and making a router version of a shooting board. Two plywood guides were cut at 22.5 degrees on the miter saw and screwed down to a wood base (carrier). I chucked up a great big pattern bit in the router table. The bearing of the router bit rides along the wood base while the blade slices down whatever is hanging over the edge. No fence needed. Very simple and it worked so well I used it to clean up all the mitered cuts and leave a nice clean edge.
Sometimes I overlook the easy solutions.
I suppose I cold have put a few toggle clamps on there...
Michael
It went fairly well but one or two of the pieces were just a hair too long so I decided I needed a router jig to fix things. I thought about it for days; toggle clamps and t-slots and...
Then I ended up going super simple and making a router version of a shooting board. Two plywood guides were cut at 22.5 degrees on the miter saw and screwed down to a wood base (carrier). I chucked up a great big pattern bit in the router table. The bearing of the router bit rides along the wood base while the blade slices down whatever is hanging over the edge. No fence needed. Very simple and it worked so well I used it to clean up all the mitered cuts and leave a nice clean edge.
Sometimes I overlook the easy solutions.
I suppose I cold have put a few toggle clamps on there...
Michael


