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.

@jc2367

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, for me thats much easier.

@nedsdeclassified

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKCBl7ioo6vck7A.html shes has that method aswell

@rossevans1639

2 жыл бұрын

Nice one bro

@MrAaronolivo

2 жыл бұрын

2,920,261 views Jan 29, 2015 her video from then explains that, but the tape is also useful as a guide.

@JakeChilly93

2 жыл бұрын

Much simpler, thank you

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.

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

@kbearjams8

2 жыл бұрын

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!

This is the best KZread 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 .

@SheilaSpencer1

2 жыл бұрын

And no dumb music in the background! That can be so annoying and distracting. Love all her videos!

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.

@michaelwayne7887

Жыл бұрын

"Educationalist"?? lol

@DennisKing-yn3rw

7 ай бұрын

ditto @@michaelwayne7887

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!

Perfect example of something so simple, but no one ever explained it to me before. Now it makes sense, thanks Leah.

@marty3553

Жыл бұрын

Just don’t understand the tape ??😢

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!

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!

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 should have her own Saturday morning woodworking show, she would be great at it!

OMG Leah, thank you so, so, so very much for your KZread 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.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome, Ellen! Welcome to our channel! Glad you found us. 🙂

@ellenfairweather2732

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@Noahsoak

3 жыл бұрын

She's a saint. Lol :)

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.

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.:)

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!

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

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.

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!

Thank you so much for pouring so much confidence in us , whom have never changed a toilet, cut wood etc Just thank you!!!

I love KZread 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👍

@yojuanjose1

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Jaguar62amerstd

5 жыл бұрын

Truth is, that old chop saw prob works better than any new one.. So long as the blades sharp lol

@steveiv9250

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@IamFormaggio

4 жыл бұрын

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.

@john-paulsilke893

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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!

Thanks Leah, I always struggle with mitre joints but this explains things perfectly! now I understand this explaining this in simple terms, I’m now confident my mitre joints will be perfect 👍😁

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!!

Omg I love you Leah. That was something I was trying to figure out on my own for a while.

I love the way how you are able to explain it so simply. Thank you very much. I will keep this in mind. 😊

Omg, you probably just saved me from going over the deep end! I haven't yet begun to cut my baseboards but I would've surely lost my mind trying to figure this out! Thank you so much! As always you are a wealth of information! Love your channel!

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

These presentations are well planned. You can learn a lot here.

Thank you so much!! I wish somebody would have explained this to me years ago! Extremely helpful Leah, thank you!

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!

Thanks Leah! Now I won’t stare blankly at my miter saw waiting for it to tell me what I did 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!

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

I wish you continued success with your home!

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!

I really enjoy watching your videos. I’m a beginner wood worker and your explanations are very clear and understandable for us newbies. Thanks Leah!

Every time I watch one of your videos I quietly say “I love you” haha Thanks for the knowledge!!!

@gigtaxservices

3 жыл бұрын

So true 👍

Great one Leah. I have learned something new today, thanks

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome, Amirhousein!

Thanks for explaining this. I bought that Husky angle tool and gave up after the first cut came out wrong. The green tape and your clear explanation were so helpful. Thank you very much and Merry Christmas to you and your family!

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.

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.

@suhailmadani4166

2 жыл бұрын

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!

@lynbrooks18

2 жыл бұрын

Fcççxx

@tapen678s6

2 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the tool that helps you saw it in the angel?

Thank you 😊.... I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with this rookie trim carpenter 😄

You are the only person I have come across to explain this oddity in such a simple manner! Thank you. "Those who teach, learn".

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.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome! 🙂

Leah, you've brought me up to a new level of perfection!!

Thanks Leah. I never used to understand that. Appreciate the video.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome, Joe!

I really appreciate your videos! Your method of explaining things is always very clear and easy to follow.

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.

Best explanation ive seen yet, great video!

Love this channel, love this lady

@jeffreyalme6480

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Informative, and a great speaking voice!

Thank You, Thank You for your videos, I watched this one and the one on cutting inside corners using a digital angle finder, going to make installing my baseboards a lot easier. I greatly appreciate you putting these videos out! 👍😀

You are the BEST teacher!! You instructional videos are clear, detailed and complete. Thank you!!!

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

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing!

@momos2790

4 жыл бұрын

Ok..another good way to work it out...thx!!

@xo_dre0728

4 жыл бұрын

So by this methods 2# 47.5° cut would fit that 85° inner angle?

@bengrumbles9830

4 жыл бұрын

@@xo_dre0728 her cut was also 47.5. He's sharing a mathematical way to get to the same answer.

@rrenee501

4 жыл бұрын

@@bengrumbles9830 - That's where the complementary angle comes in. In this case, 95 degrees (the complentary angle to 85 degrees) ÷ 2 = 47.5.

Hey leigh, great video. Solid information. This will stop alot of head scratching.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

🙂

LOVE Leah’s ability to communicate!!!! Thanks Leah😊

These videos are really awesome. You explain things in a relaxing voice and language to the novice.

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!

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome! Glad to be of help.

A Geometry lesson I can understand! Thank you so much. Happy Thanksgiving to all y’all!

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're welcome, Elaine, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well!

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.

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.

Hi Leah 😊 Thank you, that was really helpful ॐ

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome!

Oh, that's such a great tip. And you're right, of course, it was a cute angle. :)

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

LOL!

Thank you !!! I'm NEW to your subscription and getting on a finished carpentry hobby mode and your tips are a great help. You are a great teacher !!!!

Thank you so much, as always Leah your knowledge is gold, and thank you for sharing. Pedro

You're the best Leah!

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!

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 👍 👀 🤙

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

🙂

Thank you Leah, I wondered why the cuts I was making was not working! I gave up but now I will know how to finish the molding!

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! 👍👍👍👍👍

Leigh, you make me feel like this ole granny can do this. Thank you for another informative video.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you CAN do it, Debra! thanks so much for watching!

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.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

It does take a minute to sort it...glad you figured it out!

Wow - light shone in the darkness is always fantastic. Thanks

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 for taking the time to make this video. Appreciate it.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

🙂

As a beginner I had no idea how you decided on the second cut.

Wow...great info... Those angles will get you pulling out your hair every time. The explanation was very easy to follow along with...nice presentation.

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!

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 😤

@Southpaw07

5 жыл бұрын

i think u have to build a new wall.. lmao

@sassyNot4u

5 жыл бұрын

There is a trick for cutting past 45 degrees. Here you go! kzread.info/dash/bejne/iIJ6zNyGncycfqg.html

@nealesmith1873

4 жыл бұрын

Turn the board 90 degrees.

You should hashtag the companies about this : )

Once again Ms. Leah... Brilliant! Thanks so much. Been a fan for sometime now but haven’t commented much. Keep up the great work.

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

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome, Charlie. Glad you found us, and welcome to our channel!

Best part of the whole video was I figured out how you think since I discovered were both left handers!

@seejanedrill

5 жыл бұрын

👍 lefties

@freespirit3891

4 жыл бұрын

@@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. 👍👍👍👍👍😁

Blame the drywall finishers... I frame my walls square everytime.. :)

@bethmurrow5626

5 жыл бұрын

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

@maxfedor1

4 жыл бұрын

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

@kevinotoole885

4 жыл бұрын

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 watch you all the time.. such a great teacher.... such a wonderful person..

Been doing this in my head but the tape idea makes it easier - Thanks Leah

I wish I looked at this earlier today. Would have saved a lot of head scratching.

@donnabethune2454

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!🤪

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.

@seejanedrill

6 жыл бұрын

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!

@haroldbartley5970

6 жыл бұрын

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.

I really like how you explain things, just clicked in my head ! Thank you

Great video Leah. I use these machines every day and never thought of angles in the same way.

Watching this has saved me much misery! Cheers!

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.

@natethekid8072

6 жыл бұрын

Tyrone Kim there's text

@chillpillology

5 жыл бұрын

yes but 42.5 + 42.5 = 85, not 87.5. minor quibble but it may have tripped some up

@BigHenFor

5 жыл бұрын

Mitre Cutting angle = 90° - (a/2) where a= measured angle of the corner you want to mitre

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

beautiful, just beautiful and in a simple and easy way to remember!

Inside corners should always be copped

(180-angle)/2

@stevenalbarracin2441

6 жыл бұрын

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

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.

Wow, really enjoy your videos and the way you teach is incredible. Thank you.

It is is the first time watching leaving confused

@roberttill3787

5 жыл бұрын

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).

@meandyou917

5 жыл бұрын

180-85= 95 95÷2= 47.5 47.5° is the angle

@buttersstotch2014

5 жыл бұрын

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?

@kenacocks4909

5 жыл бұрын

robert till ‘I’m

@haroldobrien8550

5 жыл бұрын

12345 12345 does this work with crown outside corner to.

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

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.

I love your videos! They are so clear and you are very meticulous at explaining the other side of a "mistake".