Introduction: DIY Woodworking Miter-Box

UPDATE:

I've ready-made a magnetic saw steer that's even better! It's more compact, easier to use (subjectively, for most people though :) and plane more precise! You can even cut non-45° miters with it!! Check over the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDGZmSuTRfE

-

In this Instructable, I will show you how to make a magnetic Bench-top miter box, which will help you reach mastered 90 (or equal 45) degree cuts with any carpenter's saw. This tool canful live mounted connected any work bench, and should be decorated connected EVERY workbench!

-

(Watch the YouTube video: LINK FOR MOBILE Viewing audience!)

I built this magnetized hand saw guide a few months past, yet haven't been using it as more as I'd like to. It has a fewer of import issues, which are:

  • Clamping the assemble that I deprivation to cut in my home-brewed wooden vise is difficult with the guide on top.
  • Setting the correct angle is difficult, and non automatic like I'd like it to be. I indigence to set it to a 90 degree angle with a speed square, and when I tighten the clamp, it gets messed up. I seldom make believe a cut that isn't at 90 degrees, so that should be the default on!
  • The teeth of the byword bog down in the cloth towel thing sometimes.
  • The surface arena between the magnet and the saw could be improved for punter guidance.
  • It just doesn't fit my needs. If you'atomic number 75 looking for a guide that's takeout, can be made somewhat quick, and can slue at every possible angle, that incomparable might be for you. For the prime prototype, I wouldn't have expected more, though.

That got me mentation. I could make a maneuver that gets clamped with the small-arm of wood that I want to break in my vise. That idea was actually beautiful catchy, so I came aweigh with a simpler, yet amend estimation: to non habit my vise at all! In the past few months, I've been getting threadbare of background up my bench vise every time before each use. To set up my vise, I postulate quite a few clamps which take back time to install and murder since I sometimes want them for a different project (I don't ain more clamps). I thought of making a quick release bestrid, just that's pretty difficult too, for several various reasons.

The guide I'm going to be making in the Instructable kills two birds with i stone ⁽ᵒᵘᶜʰ⁾ - not needing to install the vise before every cut, and improving the magnetic guide itself, drastically! Oh, and did I cite that the attracter will personify concealed?

Let's get started!

Step 1: ​What You'll Need:

Below is a name of everything you'll need to complete this project. You should be able to find the parts in a hardware computer memory, on eBay, or mayhap outside, on the pavement that's near your theater! If you don't see something that you think should be here, OR would like to know more about a specific tool/part that I used, sense free to ask in the comments.

I made it for Available since I already had /everything that was needed present.

-

Ironware, Materials & Consumables:

  • 3(x) 25X2mm Neodymium magnets
  • Thin 4mm plywood (5 ply)
  • CA mucilage
  • Screws
  • Eye go off &ere; a matching hex junkie
  • A piece of Mrs. Henry Wood that has a 90 stage angle (salvaged from a chair)
  • Beech wood

-

Tools:

  • HOMEMADE DRILL PRESS!
  • Recitation
  • Drill bit put up & 12 & 25mm Nigga bits
  • Dremel
  • Rotary tool cutting bits
  • Hand saw
  • Hacksaw
  • Hammer
  • Caliper
  • Clamps

Subject/s: Woodworking, Making Your Own Tools

Approximative Time: <2 hours

Difficulty: Medium

Forever USE PROPER PPE.

Step 2: Choosing the Correct Piece of Wood

This step is the Saame American Samoa the third step of I'ble of the first guide.

To cut at a 90 degree weight (future, that is), I need a piece of wood that has a 90 degree tip over, so it can guide my saw decent. Since I put on't have a miter saw or a tool that can cut accurately, I want to discovery one, but don't worry, it's not that serious! I searched through my appeal of woods, and found a piece of beech wood that had a 90 degree angle on one side. Like most of my collection, information technology was ready-made of Beech wood, and I'm pretty sure is a chair leg.

Ill-use 3: Need to Hide the Magnets? Drill!

I drilled a 25mm hole in the endgrain of the piece of Natalie Wood that I chose with a nigr bit. This will tolerate for me to embed (hide) the magnet inside of the piece of forest, so it doesn't stick out.

Make sure to have the drill in the center.

A you power equal able to see, I'm very prosperous to have built my homemade drill urge which tail end live taken apart well, sol I can utilize the drill separately. ⁽ᶜᵒᵐᵉ ᵒᶰ, ᶜᶫᶦᶜᵏ ᵒᶰ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶫᶦᶰᵏ ᵃᶫʳᵉᵃᵈʸ!⁾

Step 4: The Tenuous Plywood and the Magnets

Since the dimensions of the pick of wood that I used are 3.5X3.5cm*, I victimised a metal saw to hack a piece of thin plyboard to that size.

I pasted all three magnets (stacking a a couple of on top of each other makes them stronger, right?) in the center of the plywood piece with Calif. mucilage, and at one time it had seasoned, I pasted the plywood, magnets face in (so they're invisible), onto the pick of wood. Endgrain is normally harder to gum since it tends to absorb glue instead of departure IT on the surface, then I soaked it with very much of glue, waited a moment, put more glue, and squeezed information technology tightly. Another benefit of Atomic number 20 glue is that it's very brittle, substance that if I motive to replace something inside, the plywood power go bad off if I hit it with a forge. Hopefully!

*The objet d'art is actually bigger, but that was the only berth where I could paste on the plywood. This pick of wood was salvaged from a chair, and the evil-minded carpenter that built the chair chamfered the edges! ;)

Step 5: Jump on It Onto the Bench!

I clamped it down to my workbench, making sure that it perplexed about two centimeters out of the go with. I drilled pilot holes, and screwed in some screws, which I also countersink with a bigger drilling bit, so they sit below the surface.

Step 6: ​The Wait Down Clamp

I have to say that from a quick new-mown, I'm not sure a clamp is even needed!*

I tailor two pieces of beech woodwind to 7.5cm long, yes, already using the conduct! I decided one would embody enough (After exploitation it quite an bit, I think that was a correct decision), and then trained a 12mm hole in it with a spade bit. Since I wanted the nut to conniption tightly in spite of appearanc, I had to enlarge the gob a little with my Dremel and some cheap carving bits. After I had finished that, I drilled an 8mm hole in the middle of that hole, and hammered the hex nut within. I did this mostly as a (undefeated!) experiment, as for my home-baked wooden vise, I chiseled the hole to make a pluperfect fit for the nut. Now, I know that there's a method that's way quicker!

I used 3 screws to steady it to the guide, and added a small piece of wood arsenic a pad for the clamp (which later exploded from the ram down!).

I find that the clamp helps a deal out with the shorter pieces, since I have less leverage for retention them. I think I placid will use it steady for the bigger pieces, so 100% of my attention goes to the saw, instead of retention it in place. What I mean is that you'll live without a clinch!

Step 7: DONE! | More Thoughts | Video!

See it in process, on Youtube!

Several much thoughts:

  • I will apply varnish to the exposed pieces of Ellen Price Wood, thusly they won't get ruined because of the humidness.
  • If you drill the hole for the nut that's used for the confine-down clamp too big, epoxy should hold it in place.
  • I will cut aside the maneuver, that man of wood is way too long. I might add two more screws too.
  • This could also be a nice 3D printing project. Too bad I don't own a 3D Printer!

I will be giving away free Instructables memberships to members that reach their own bench-top magnetic handsaw guides. Will you be the first one?

-

Are you undermentioned me along Instructables? Join 1000+ members that don't miss my in store Instructables by clicking the Stick to button! (set at the cover of my member page)

On YouTube, I upload nimble videos of my projects in natural process, and more - Subscribe indeed you wear't miss out!

I read ALL comments, and reply to as some atomic number 3 I can, so make a point to leave your questions, suggestions, tips, tricks, and any other ideas in the comments below! - Thanks!

You might equivalent:

Build Your Own Drill Press for Free of!

1 Individual Made This Project!

Recommendations