100 Practice Miters

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05-01-2013
Dyon Taylor

100 Practice Miters

I wanted to further develop my mitering technique, so I purchased 4 top-tubes and went to work. This resulted in 100 mitered joints. The good thing about doing these as a practice exercise is that I could try different things to learn worked best for me, even intentionally mess-up a miter and then see what was needed to correct it. I learned quite a bit in doing this, and developed a repeatable process that produces consistent results. My future frames should be better for it.

Thanks for looking.

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05-01-2013
e-RICHIE

Re: 100 Practice Miters

[X] Like atmo -
05-02-2013
pruckelshaus

Re: 100 Practice Miters

Between you and Pi Guy (it is Pi Guy, right? The guy who's building 10 frames and hacking them apart as his learning process) we've got the OCD learner segment covered. That's a good thing, I'm not nearly OCD enough, and I'm definitely a learner.
05-02-2013
Todd Mosley

Re: 100 Practice Miters

What process are you using - hacksaw and file, paper templates, etc?
05-02-2013
Jonathan

Re: 100 Practice Miters

If anyone wants to satisfy their inner practice need, pacenti has straight gage tubing on sale for $2 per tube. Ill bet that's $1 per foot shipped.
05-03-2013
Dyon Taylor

Re: 100 Practice Miters

Todd – You guessed it; templates, a hacksaw, and files.
05-03-2013
Hank Scorpio

Re: 100 Practice Miters

It looks like you could make a pretty interesting wall piece if you could find a way to mount them.
05-03-2013
Mike Mcdermid

Re: 100 Practice Miters

Why on earth....the defacto standard is to watch a u too b video...instantly emdowing you with more skills

who knows doing things the good ol way might catch on though.
05-04-2013
AndyA

Re: 100 Practice Miters

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan

If anyone wants to satisfy their inner practice need, pacenti has straight gage tubing on sale for $2 per tube. Ill bet that's $1 per foot shipped.

I used 1.2mm (18swg) 1 1/8" mild steel rolled tube for practice pieces, which worked out only slightly cheaper than Pacenti's tubes here. Damn that is cheap!

The next step would be to make practice joint trees, triangles and little bike-esque objects. Fun fun fun!
05-04-2013
Pi Guy

Re: 100 Practice Miters

Quote:

Originally Posted by pruckelshaus

Between you and Pi Guy (it is Pi Guy, right? The guy who's building 10 frames and hacking them apart...

Yup, that's me, but I only had lugs for 6 frames. Overall my OCD-ness with frame building has been very helpful. I think it can, at times, make things take longer than they need to though. Sometimes I just need to set it and forget it. Thanks for the shout out!