Making a Large Mitre Box | Paul Sellers
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- Making your own mitre box is a quick to make and more accurate alternative to buying one. It requires accurately square stock and careful layout and cutting. It can help you get clean, crisp mitre joints, particularly when used in combination with a shooting board:
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About 60 years ago I watched my uncle Ernie make box similar to yours when he was doing trim work at my Mom and Dads new house. I had almost forgotten that experience. Thanks for the reminder.
I'd have given a body part to have this knowledge and information 20 years ago, when I redid the trim in our bathroom after a small remodel. The back saw was worn out and the miter box was commercially made garbage - it left me thinking I was an IDIOT! Why I really paid attention after I found Mr. Sellers online - now I know it was the tools AND the dolt trying to use them. Thank You for a lifetime of knowledge and skills.
Great detailed Video, helped me a lot! Thank You Paul!
Thanks for the great video Paul! I was just needing to make a box to make cuts for a post and railing. You are the best.
Really looking forward to making this. Thank you as always Paul, you are an amazing teacher.
Absolutely grateful for this amazing video. The information, and working tips made me want to get up, and start working again! Simple, and yet so effective! Thankyou
Thanks Paul, I will be making a couple for sure. I need to make some picture frames and this will come in handy.
Steve
just wonderful...thanks so much for all your instructions.
Great explanation! Thanks Paul
Thanks Paul!
Absolutely love your videos!!! Thanks for all the hard work.
Thanks Paul, Always learn a lot from your videos, have a good one
Very awesome. Looks more sturdy then the plastic ones you'd buy at a store.
Standing Ovation !!! Thank You Sir.
Thanks Paul
Just what I need
awsome. thank you. love all your videos.
Very nice, thanks Paul.
Nice presentation and simple to understand. I am going to start off with just a square cut box which I will be using solely for cutting clay forms that I will have extruded, using a wire harp. Mine will be a wee bit wider to accommodate the extruded forms.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers...Freddie
So simple and sure!!
I am interested in pauls plane collection in the background and i was wondering if you could do a video on all of pauls planes.
Amazing!!!!
I need a mitre box to build a mitre box :) great vid as usual, thank you!!
The same way u need a mallet to make a mallet
Top quality as usual!
Love your videos Paul. Can you make a box to cover wider Taurus style skirting?
For anyone wondering: yes, this video is really quiet. Be wary when switching to another video after this one.
Thanks Paul
Great video, thanks. I was going to spend a fiver on a mitre box from Screwfix, but I'll save my money and make one myself. I love your work and videos Paul. So it pains me to point out to you that at 7.18 through 7.22 there appears to be an error. The wooden section on the block facing you, between the mitre cuts, appears to move. Maybe the cuts need to be further apart on the block? Still love your work. Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Paul...you are great....Can you suggest me the best way to make a wood table for my terrace in Sicily? I would like to make it on my self...Did you have a video tutorial too? thank you so much
Hey see you make a mitre box brings a question to mind about doing crown moldings by hand not sure if you have done a video on that subject. I really enjoy your videos as i am switch to traditional woodworking
What's the preferred way of holding pieces in place inside the mitre box?
Elliptic dogs, or fishtail braces?
Master!
Very good.
I had a plastic mitre block. I’ve now binned it. All the plastic ones are useless just read the bad reviews at on-line shopping sites.
A great video if accuracy is what you are after. With this you can tailor you block to your needs. For instance my skirting boards are 12cm width (that’s 12cm high for us novices), so I made the sides of my block 12cm high for accurate cuts and the internal base 14cm wide so I could jiggle the floorboard slightly for two of my 45 degree angle cuts that needed to be slightly higher or lower than 45. Not all walls are square!!!
Avoid wood with knots in. I used pinewood, 1¼” thick excellent for a ‘true’ cut. I made my block 50cm long (helps keep the boards stable) and the base longer than the sides at either end by 4cm, ideal for clamping down for stability. The wood (33mm x 120mm, length 158cm) I got from Jewsons for £6, a 40% discount (ask!) since it was a left over from longer planks.
I’ve done the skirting boards on the landing, stairway and hall, a lot of awkward cuts, I made an excellent job of it.
Thanks Paul
As always Paul, thanks for teaching me something. You are the MAN!!!! Just be sure to give the audio person that did this video a hearing test. Holy soft sound Batman!!
I am about to do this. However, I think I'm going to add two more miters. Ones that inclined vertically instead of laterally.
Hi Paul. Can I make this from 18mm mdf? I was thinking about doubling up the mdf so it’s 36mm
Where's Mr. Sellers? Hopefully just the summer Holiday.
Would love to see how you make the 45° shooting board.
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+Paul Sellers thank you
Would you still make knife walls on the stock your going to put into the miter box ? I'm guessing yes.
Yes, you guessed right.
What do you call that thing that you use your plane on to get a true 45?
Muito bom
How do you guys cut longer mitered edges with hand tools (still saving for a powertool) for instance for a tall box?
It's easy enough to do it without any guide and then plane the mitre to perfect the cut.
Thank you for you response. I guess the learning curve for patience is much steeper than learning the tools. Will keep trying and thank you for your wonderful material.
I haven't seen Paul use Japanese saws much, but a ryoba or kataba saw can be had for pretty cheap (got my ryoba for around $20 at Rockler), and because they are pull saws they don't need the top steel to keep them straight. That lets you saw right on through long cuts. _However_ they do take some practice to keep them on a line. Also, try to speed through something it can make the end of the saw blade wobble, widening your kerf on that end. Note that in general, the more expensive the saw, the less of an issue those things become, but a little practice (and that patience) will let you make long, straight cuts easily.
One other note if you decide to try this direction: They stay sharp a long time, but it's so impractical to sharpen the kerf on these that even the Japanese generally just buy a replacement blade.
what type of hand saw is ideal for miter cuts with a miter box?
A tenon saw, or a saw with fine teeth to control the kerf of your mitre
Mr. Sellers, what do you mean when you say "drop your hand" when sawing?
He drops his hand cutting the front wall first keeping dead on the line he made.
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I guess he means to just use the weight of your hand. Just by dropping it. Not pushing it downwards. So that you can have a clean cut. And saving the sharpness of your saw.
I hope I still mean something even if its 2 yrs already haha
Paul cuts the side closest to him first, before cutting the side farthest away from him. He drops the back of the saw to cut the closer side and leaves the front of the saw at the top of the fairest side, cutting uphill. When the closer side is cut he then switches to dropping the front of the saw to cut the farther side.
I mitre been a woodworker in my past life
Thanks, seems obvious, but I didn't know.
all i need is 12 and a half inches !
then make a 13 inch wide miter box.
The sound on your vids is always very low. Any chance you can do something about that? The lavalier mic appears to either be off or have no gain.
I'm going to make one tomoz and high enough for 6inch torus skirting
TIP: If you make one, make sure your bottom board is exactly parallel to the top (reference for the cutting the saw kerf) so the piece you're cutting is square to the saw kerf, if they aren't parallel, you 'll end up cutting a compound mitre.
Is it possible to make a 17 degree miter box?
Get the angle on a compass and set it on a bevel gauge
and set out and make as per video.
You can get combination squares like Paul used with a protractor attachment for marking up.
It is. Any angle can be done this way except the shallowest of angles where the length of the saw would be the limiting factor.
What do you use a 17 degree angle for?
PyroShim A guitar neck.
What is the saw called?
It is a tenon saw - Team Paul
Paul Sellers thank you sir
Paul I really like your contents , but oh you need to increase the volume. I have good hearing but on my iPad set at max volume you are barely discernible. Thankyou
What's the tool called that is used here to measure the 45 degree angle?
Combination square
Anyone notice Graham Haydon closed his channel. Thats another English woodworker. He had some great videos, similar to Paul's. I wonder what happened?
I have no Idea but it is a shame. Did he have a closing video or anything?
thatIlluminati _ Not that i would know. His facebook is still active, however. I think there may have been a conflict with his gig at Popular Woodworking Magazine. Or it just wasn't worth the time producing vids. He put a'lot of effort, but i could see his view count was a bit mediocre. Its a tough business.
Ahh thats probably what it was. Thanks
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Sound is way way off. Really low.
Sorry about this. We are working on it.
You should always mark from the same side not opposites like you have just done. Correct way is to use a roofing square and mark in one operation. Like to see you out on site Mr Sellers. You would get the sack because you would be too slow doing things your way. If the mitre box is accurate there is not any need to plane the mitre.
all i need is 12 and a half inches !