Good day
My name is niki and its my first post in your very, very active forum.
I live in Poland (after Israel and Japan) and I’m an amateur.
I would like to share with you a different way (to my knowledge) of making 45* frames.
Instead of messing with angles and protractors, I’m using big dedicated triangle.
The cutting method is “Left” and “Right” of the blade to overcome any small deviations from 45*.
The rest is on the pictures.
One important point:
As you will see, the blade will cut ½ kerf width at every cut, and because we are cutting each frame member from both sides, the member length will be reduced by 1 kerf width.
To make it clear, if your blade kerf is 1/8”, and you are planing a frame of, say, 20” x 20”, cut your members to, what I call in the pictures “final dimensions” of, 20-1/8” so after the cutting the will be 20”.
Regards
niki