Gang -
I'm finishing the last part of an installation of a tray ceiling on a
porch. The 19"-wide part between the walls and the ceiling slant in at
21 degrees from the horizontal. The ceiling has molding around it. The
corners where slant-meets-slant-meets-ceiling-molding need molding to
cover the imperfections of earlier carpentry. I am essentially trying
to fit a board onto a corner of a cube at an oblique angle to all
surfaces of the cube.
Setting aside the angles for now, I can't figure out how to make the
cuts. I'm essentially trying to make the hollow of a point--and
anything that makes a cut to match an angle mars a different face.
Is there a power tool solution? Is this the time for hand tools? And if
so, which ones how used?
I tried gouging out the back of a test board with the table saw. To get
the height I needed took too much wood in length from the underside of
the board and it cracked on installation. My current thought is a
router table.
Any thoughts from the collected wisdom? I already know that if I'd
known it was going to be this hard I should have started differently ;-)
Thanks in advance.
...best, Capt N.
--
Email to [email protected] (yes, you can so figure it out) ;-]
Scream and shout and jump for joy! I was here before Kilroy!
Sorry to spoil your little joke. I was here but my computer broke. ---Kilroy
Instead of trying to miter the joints, can you butt them and use a coping
saw to cut the mate. Hard to explain -
Hope this is of some help.
Erik
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> Gang -
>
> I'm finishing the last part of an installation of a tray ceiling on a
> porch. The 19"-wide part between the walls and the ceiling slant in at
> 21 degrees from the horizontal. The ceiling has molding around it. The
> corners where slant-meets-slant-meets-ceiling-molding need molding to
> cover the imperfections of earlier carpentry. I am essentially trying
> to fit a board onto a corner of a cube at an oblique angle to all
> surfaces of the cube.
>
> Setting aside the angles for now, I can't figure out how to make the
> cuts. I'm essentially trying to make the hollow of a point--and
> anything that makes a cut to match an angle mars a different face.
>
> Is there a power tool solution? Is this the time for hand tools? And if
> so, which ones how used?
>
> I tried gouging out the back of a test board with the table saw. To get
> the height I needed took too much wood in length from the underside of
> the board and it cracked on installation. My current thought is a
> router table.
>
> Any thoughts from the collected wisdom? I already know that if I'd
> known it was going to be this hard I should have started differently ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ...best, Capt N.
>
> --
> Email to [email protected] (yes, you can so figure it out) ;-]
>
> Scream and shout and jump for joy! I was here before Kilroy!
>
> Sorry to spoil your little joke. I was here but my computer
broke. ---Kilroy