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    Cut a thin slither of matching timber and insert
    Experienced in removing the tree from the furniture

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    Christos
    Your thinking is spot on
    On a larger scale we regular do this on facia repairs on the corners
    It works quite well if your mindful
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    Default Not sure if this idea meets with what you are looking for but here goes...........

    Like most others here I love tinkering with boxes but I have found that unless I use a REALLY accurate saw, I can never get the mitres perfect. Given that its already glued and seems solid, what about if you took about 4 or even 5mm off each corner but cut if off at 45 degrees then glue a new corner corner on perhaps out of a lighter timber for contrast. Another alternative would be to cut a square out of the corner and glue a new corner on. Straight/clean cuts always seem to produce quite good results for me and once sanded I think they look very neat and tidy.

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    Hi Dengue, Have a look at Paul's great idea to solve the 45° problem. The main problem as I see it is to get the angles adding up to exactly 360°. If you do this the corners have to meet. I gave up trying to get it right on one of the cheaper SCMS and built a modified version of Pauls sled and it works brilliantly. Have not had a problem with the corners since.

    https://www.woodworkforums.com/attach...3&d=1387859628

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    Here is another idea that might help you out Dengue.

    http://www.woodworking.com/ww/Articl...ters-6408.aspx

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    Hi Dengue
    Have you managed to fix this up yet?
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    Thanks everyone for the excellent advice. I particularly like the one about using a disc sander, so will be giving that a go.

    With the box I was doing, it took me 4 weeks to get some jarrah Timbermate Waxstix in Townsville. Bunnies carried every colour except jarrah. In the end I did a special order with them, but it would be 3 weeks or more before they placed the order.

    In the end I got sick of waiting, and was so disappointed with the original mitre joint result, so I cut the box up carefully and rebuilt it 24mm smaller in width and breadth, same height. The rebates and slots were OK, just recut the base slots where I had glued the 4mm plywood base in.

    Fortunately the silky oak lid was a floating lid, so I recovered most of it, just had to cut new rebates on it.

    Did not do the hidden spline this time, which I think was the cause of the original problem, but did corner keys instead. Will post photos soon
    regards,

    Dengy

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