when I made a video about using bamboo skewers as dowels I wanted to show using them to reinforce
a miter joint and I came up with this really elegant solution for that so you start with
a block of hardwood and drill two holes through it like this they don't need to be accurate
and then I split that block down the middle and I can use this half as a drill guide for
drilling the dowel holes in this half of the miter joint and the other half to drill the
other holes and because those holes line up with each other the dial holes will also line
up perfectly foreign
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[Music] I have to make sure these two pieces are lined up properly this way and for that
I need a stop that goes on here and that needs to be the same for both pieces which is why
I cut both of these as one and then split it down the middle so I can use the other
half there's a stop on here and I'll just glue both of those so they're flush on top
and then they're aligned properly
I had a bit of blue squeeze out in the corner but it's also not uncommon to have a burr
on the edge of the miter so I'm just adding some clearance with the bandsaw
cut four pieces for a picture frame mitered let's try out the jigs [Music] foreign
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it's a decent fit
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thank you
now I'm just going to add some detail to this Frame [Music]
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and one final dry fit before I glue it
okay
a nice thing about reinforcing these miters
is I can clamp it without worrying about the joints slipping out of place as usual I'm
making it look slightly easier than it is this was my first version of The Jig and this
was the first miter joint which isn't all that accurate the problem is this piece wasn't
thick enough and so I don't have very good directional guidance of the drill and the
hole quickly wears out on account of that and so they weren't drilling very accurately
so the next one I made was this one which I used in the video and you'll notice these
lines on here these are markings just to make sure that this piece is correctly paired with
that piece and with this being much thicker that gives the drill a really good directional
guidance so basically this one works and then I made this one for this video Let's see if
I can pick this squeeze out off with a pair of chisels
okay
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drops of glue on there which really shows up with the varnish always got to have a chisel
handy when doing that sort of thing
a tricky I learned from John Heist is for oil-based varnish don't clean the brush just
wrap it tightly in a bag and keep it in the freezer and it'll stay good for next time
I glued this picture onto a piece of cardboard to get a nice white Edge all around and that
goes on the backer board goes into the frame and then some nails to hold it in place I
have pilot holes for these which is why I can push them in with my fingers
and it's done