How to reinforce miter joints with super-strong splines. Simple woodworking jig.
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Download my FREE GUIDE to setting up a shop for under $1000 ►► mytoollist.com/
Adding splines to frame corners is a great way to strengthen the miters. Here is an alternative method for even extra strength!
__
WWMM is sponsored by MicroJig, maker of the GRR-RIPPER
bit.ly/worksafer
Keep your fingers safe. Get a GRR-RIPPER ► amzn.to/1PQruDW
----------------
Equip your woodworking shop for under $1,000: mytoollist.com/
PATREON ► / wwmm
TOOLS I USE► amzn.to/2F3hxQc
WWMM T-SHIRTS► amzn.to/2scxfYl
INSTAGRAM► / steveramsey_wwmm
----------------
MAILING ADDRESS:
WWMM
448 Ignacio Blvd. #237
Novato CA 94949
----------------
Woodworking for Mere Mortals® is a registered trademark of ZRAM Media, LLC.
#woodworking #powertools #WWMM
Category
Howto & Style
----------------
Music:
"Princess Meow-Meow's Theme" by Per Almered
came to get my microjig fix. wasn't disappointed
I love how you make the ad fun. I actually bought a microjig because of your funny way of putting them into your videos. Love your channel
lol, I love the Casper spots with your boy.
Very useful technique and jig. It looks very sturdy and easy to make. Thank you for sharing. Thanks to MicroJig and Casper for sponsoring the show. Thanks to Wyatt for joining us.
Hey Wyatt, hope you are getting paid for these adds. You need spending money for college...
Just made the jig worked perfectly, Steve is my guru.
First! Yeah buddy! I like that you specified the grain direction for the splines... (Important tip)
Great video Steve, I really like this simple jig and I prefer this smaller spline showing rather than the other type, just what i was looking for! Kudos to your son, definitely can make commercials if he doesn’t follow your woodworking steps!
Excellent video and process. You did it again. You have cut through to the meat of the solution and come up with the solution to the problem. Thank you for sharing. You are a true Craftsman, Bless you....
I like your spline video. You make a much stronger spline than any other technique I’ve seen. Well done!
Best and Simplest spline video I've seen, and I've seen a few! Thanks for sharing!!
G'Day from Australia!! Love the jig! As always you come up with the simple, straightforward solution!!!! Cheers!!!
Awesome video! A customer just ordered 11 custom frames with live edge red cedar.
I plan to use this method for joining the frames!
Thank you for the example and the entertaining humor 😄
Steve. As always you inspire me. You have great ideas. Keep the great vedios coming. Thank you. God bless.
I love that the url of this video ends with Jig
Interesting jig! I never seen one like this before? Thank you.
very good. I never thought of doing splines that way.
This is the type of videos I subscribed to your channel.
Would really like to see more of it along with interesting projects. Thumbs up.
"Wider than the diagonal of your miter" ... wood working poetry!
After watching that I would not even consider buying a Casper mattress. Avocado Green mattress has won me over now!
Your videos never fail to put a smile on my face, I loved the Casper spot :)
Nice tech. Love the Casper spots all from the very first one.
loving that classic drum beat
So great to see Wyatt!
Quadruple LIKE Mr. Ramsey, tnx for sharing it!!!!
(that means both toes and thumbs up as well yeah) :D
Smart idea Steve.
Thanks for super-strong spines.
Dave Thompson
I'm here earlier than usual, love what you do Steve and keep it up. Your amazing at what you do and inspire many people
+The Game Thanks...I really appreciate that!
Wyatt's deadpan Casper promo is hilarious!
You have a great sense of humor
love the jigs... Can never have enough jigs!!
Good. Easy peasy.
Mr and Mr. Ramsey, just great. will check out Casper
Tnx 4 using mm.
That was simple enough... thanks.
Good idea on splines.
Thanks for the tips Steve!
Steve, I use the splines on my frames (sell them at craft shows) but I use the "cut after you get them glued up) but I cut the spline almost all of the way through and they are super strong.
Nice and simple thanks
Great tip! Helpful to me!
Thanks Steve, great video!
*Good job*
I don't make frames but I did pick up some good techniques from the video
I have as many alliance toons as horde, but horde is funner IMO Varian is a big douche
That spine was so strong and well made that it could have been made by Casper Mattress.
Thanks, Steve! I'll be using this info in one of my future projects! :-)
Another super helpful video! Thanks for posting! So helpful!
😹😹I love it I have been working on something like it but your system is so much easier 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽thanks 🤗
cool idea
Sturdy fasteners!
Um, Steve, I don't like picture frames, or pretty little boxes either. But I like that spline idea, it is actually the true spline joint as used in furniture making for centuries. e.g., in back panels and tabletops, rather than the corner reinforcement we now call splines. Thanks!
Excellent mini video, Steve, but I have to say, your son is hilarious - overt advertising of Casper mattresses - gotta love it - he's a chip off the old block; as it happens, my own mattress is coming to the end of its life, tho' I am not sure that your promo code would work in the UK. Always entertaining & informative !! :D
does this work for more obscure angles like 30° for a hexagon or 22.5° for an octagon?
Which is stronger? Also compared to lock miter joint? Making a planter box with potential internal forces in all directions. Still prefer miter to other joints though as want to do waterfall look.
New joinery ! Woohoo
super video
Cool, thanks.
I was looking for something like this, but for a box. With a jig turned 45 degrees to cut a spline along the height of the box, almost like a floating tenon inside the miter. But is it worth the effort? I haven't seen anyone on CZcams use that yet.
Of all men named Steve... you may be the greatest of all time.
Behind Irwin, of course.
You spend your time on researching the achievements of all the Steve's on planet earth? ;-) ... I'm not mean spirited, you know.
Thank you Steve:-)
I'm doing a project that requires the corners to be held together with splines @ a 48.5-degree angle and I'm not sure if your jig in the video can work, any suggestions?
great video love it
First off, I love your channel. It makes beginning woodworkers like me feel like I can do woodworking. Secondly do I need a ftg or flat toothed blade to do spline joints on boxes. These will show.
Amazon sells them or most dado stacks have flat cut teeth
Great video! As usual!
Great little jig. My request, not a simple one is how to make a "REAL" artist's canvas stretcher bar? It has a 45 deg mitered, double mortice joint. And when it's put together there a wee spline wedges to hamner from the inside of the miter if the canvas gets too loose.
Always looking for better ways to reinforce joints.
Super cool jig!
I know this is completely unrelated but has anyone told you that you look like Mike Bobo, the football coach for Colorado state?
These Casper skits are getting weirder and weider lol
+コンピューティング A E S T H E T I C Haha...I think you are right!
That's because Steve is a bit strange. hahhahhahahahahaha
everyone will be doing their ads like Steve soon just you watch
Nice Casper ad :)
Great video. Steve, I wonder if I could ask please what on earth is that thing that you wrap around the frames to keep them in place while gluing? It looks awesome.
It is a Variable Angle Strap Clamp
Can you do a video on cove bits. I would like to see the one that cuts a "half moon" into the face of a board.
The boy seems like he's coming along nicely.
Can anyone please let me know what kind of Plywood has been used in the video?
With the current re-thinking about how strong end-grain glue joints are, I wonder if splining is even necessary or very helpful for strength.
Haha you're a good dad. Wyatt is perfectly awkward
Does casper mattress make a mini miter saw?
lol that kid is priceless
muito bom, seu filho é muito parecido contigo!!!!
Great idea. I'm thinking the width of the spline is just double the height of the blade? Is that right?
good video. thanks :) i was wondering how you would put a taper or gradient sloping in towards the picture rather than having it flat?
Picture framing is a dark art indeed.
Has Steve ever explained what he likes so much about picture frames? I know I do not have that same enthusiasm about it.
Can you do splines on the face of the frame? If so, could you do a video on how to do it? Thanks.
Are two dowels at each corner as strong as this? I dont own a table saw
Lmfao. Best microjig intro.
sweet man ... good stuff ..(-:
Can you do a strength test? Regular Miter Joint Vs. Splined Miter?
Thx. great video. What was the glue you used? Do you prefer it to titebond?
Hey Steve, what kind of table saw sled is that? Is it a Kreg?
Tal pai tal filho, parecidissimos.
How did you determine the width of the splines? Just measure?
Hey Steve, long time watcher first time commenter here. Wondering where I could snag one of those stretchy picture frame clamp things you used. I build 5-10 picture frames a week and I feel like getting a half dozen of those would really help me out. Thanks!
In the UK it’s called a band clamp, widely available for about £6, hope that helps you find one
So what your saying is CASPER!
What kind of strap clamp was that you used to hold the frame together while drying?
Shane Hayward bessey band clamp
We need help with skecthup for the love of all things holy. I have a serious problem with the planning and cutlist before starting thing. I always just try to wing it and end up with dados not lining up or having to take things apart to cut something else in....I have sat down with sketchup for probably 100 hours and it still takes 30 min. to draw a box. I can measure and cut everything and assemble everything really well. But planning and blueprinting I simply can not do. I'm really at the end of my frustration rope with sketchup, the navigation sucks and its just too overly complicated for what it is. Any suggestions?
homegrownbuddy you just have to view some good youtube sketchup course. But not just view, also repeat actions
I honestly just can't understand how it's 2017 and the best anyone can come up with is a program that takes 10 minutes to draw a box. Like how is that any better than a sheet of paper? At this stage of the game someone should just be able to click on 2x4x8 and drag and drop it in, then click 2x4x6 and rotate and drop etc. The fact that sketchup allows you to draw shapes that are nowhere near possible in reality. The navigation makes it so you can't even see what your working on half the time. I'm like so frustrated with it.
homegrownbuddy what kind of box takes 10 min to draw? If you send me a picture, I'll try to draw it in sketchup and if it would take much less than 10 min, I'll make a video and send it to you.
+homegrownbuddy Once you get familiar with it, it saves a lot of time. But it can be frustrating getting up to speed!
When exactly do you reticulate the splines?
Steve: "Finger measurements may vary. To prevent accidental finger dimensional variance, MICROJIG!"
But are the splines reticulated?
What ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
David Curtis No biggie. Just want to know whether he's reticulating the splines.
(It's a reference to The Sims.)
Sill don't know what you are calling reticulated?????
David Curtis The Sims was a video game that had humorous nonsense "technical messages" on the screen while it loaded up. One of them was "reticulating splines." I can't hear the word "spline" without remembering it and chuckling.
Which was, in turn, also referencing Sim City 2000.
Steve, I have not seen a scroll saw nor a band saw in your myriad of wood working tools. I would assume that someone who enjoys wood working as an art form as you seem to be would at least have a few ideas on how to incorporate a scroll saw into a project.
If you have either of these tools, wipe off the dust and show us a project but as always I await your next build / video
+bogey2230 I have tons of videos using both those tools.
Try searching his channel, spend some time searching before you waste time with a comment.
what is that cross cutting tool called?
Yep I like the Casper bit.