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The angle on angles

It’s nice having all these fancy tools but when it comes to cutting angles with them, I’ve been had more then once. This tutorial on woodworking tools and cutting angles is quite informative.

Not all woodworking machinery angle scales are created alike. In fact, there are two different conventions for the calibration of angle scales in common use on woodworking machinery. One type of scale is calibrated to treat a square cut as a 90 degree cut, while the other scale treats a square cut as a 0 degree cut.

It’s spread over 5 pages or so. I’m going to be collecting more of these so if you have some send them on over. Here is the tutorial…

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