Box Urn

**Seer** · 27th June 2012, 12:41 AM

I am new to box making, real new in fact and I am making a box to used an an urn for a family member and am using 6 inch walnut which io though I could cut on my miter saw but it will not cut something that wide. My wife wants mitered corners so my only option is to use a table saw to do this. Is there a simple way to get the cut the same so the pieces are all the length they are supposed to be and decent 45's on the ends?

**SAISAY** · 27th June 2012, 07:36 AM

Remember, the mitre joint is the weakest joint there is, gluing endgrain to endgrain.
You can buy a special router bit,it is called "Lock-mitrebit".

You can see how to use it here http://www.carbatec.com.au/lock-mitre-bits_c17660
It locks the sides together but looks on the outside like a mitre joint.
Cheers
Wolffie

**Tomazelli** · 27th June 2012, 05:12 PM

You can do a good job on the table saw using a crosscut sled made especially for mitered crosscuts. Using a stop block you can do repeated cuts with the same length. Maybe it is not a simple way because you will need to make the sled, but the sled will serve every time you need to do a mitered crosscut on a wide board.

I see Doug Stowe using a sled for cuts mitered ends of box pieces on a video, but I don't remember where, the exact site of the video. EDITING: The link of the video: http://www.finewoodworking.com/Skill....aspx?id=30383

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