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Nice work.

I am following this thread as I have a PF (wife has put in her order) to do shortly so you are giving me a tutorial

I set up my new dado stack(woohoo) for 3/8" and got all my rabbets cut.I got ahead of myself between pictures and work. Rabbets come before cutting miters.


You don't need a dado set to cut the rabbets. A dado set just means 1 less procedure.I hope that is clearer than mud. If you go this route you end up with a bunch of these.

I then had several stop block locations on my miter saw to cut opposite sides to equal length.

Next is glue up of the separate frames.I wish I had more than 1 strap clamp now, LOL.

rjent wrote:Nice work.

I am following this thread as I have a PF (wife has put in her order) to do shortly so you are giving me a tutorial

Heh, thanks Dick. I'm assuming you are doing a single and would want the back cut out like the first profile picture? If so, I can include a little diagram on how to cut that profile safely.

Skizzity wrote:

rjent wrote:Nice work.

I am following this thread as I have a PF (wife has put in her order) to do shortly so you are giving me a tutorial

Heh, thanks Dick. I'm assuming you are doing a single and would want the back cut out like the first profile picture? If so, I can include a little diagram on how to cut that profile safely.

That would be awesome. Never made a p frame before, so any help would be ... well, helpful ...

rjent wrote:

Skizzity wrote:

rjent wrote:Nice work.

I am following this thread as I have a PF (wife has put in her order) to do shortly so you are giving me a tutorial

Heh, thanks Dick. I'm assuming you are doing a single and would want the back cut out like the first profile picture? If so, I can include a little diagram on how to cut that profile safely.

That would be awesome. Never made a p frame before, so any help would be ... well, helpful ...

I hope this helps...

Cut 2 is a 45*. Cut 3 for the face is a 33*.
After making cuts 1-4, cut your miters on the ends and do your glue up and assembly. Cut 5 comes afterwards. Pass each side of your frame through the saw and lift out after the final cut.

Skizzity wrote: I hope this helps...

Cut 2 is a 45*. Cut 3 for the face is a 33*.
After making cuts 1-4, cut your miters on the ends and do your glue up and assembly. Cut 5 comes afterwards. Pass each side of your frame through the saw and lift out after the final cut.

Pretty slick, the only step I don't understand is cut 5. Could you elaborate?

rjent wrote:

Skizzity wrote: I hope this helps...

Cut 2 is a 45*. Cut 3 for the face is a 33*.
After making cuts 1-4, cut your miters on the ends and do your glue up and assembly. Cut 5 comes afterwards. Pass each side of your frame through the saw and lift out after the final cut.

Pretty slick, the only step I don't understand is cut 5. Could you elaborate?

Hmm, working from memory here and no pictures of those frames or the cutoff from "cut 5". Ok, after doing cuts 1-4 you will cut your miters on the ends of each side. Glue and assemble the frame. Let it dry. Doing cut 5 before assembly can be pretty precarious.
After it is dry you lay the whole frame flat on the table and do cut 5 on all four sides of the frame. The spacer allows the cutoff to not bind and the whole frame allows stability in the cut. Then lift your frame out of the cutoff carriage.
I hope that was a little clearer. Once you have done it one time.....::mind blown::
in this pic there is a dark horizontal line across the tape from cut 2. The vertical line is cut 5.

Skizzity
Thank you. A beautifully documented and elegantly thought out way to safely make these frames.

Skizzity wrote:I hope that is clearer than mud.

"It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
And the confusion made the brain go 'round." - Harry Belafonte

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvN6-RK66Bo[/youtube]

Skizzity wrote:

rjent wrote:

Skizzity wrote: I hope this helps...

Cut 2 is a 45*. Cut 3 for the face is a 33*.
After making cuts 1-4, cut your miters on the ends and do your glue up and assembly. Cut 5 comes afterwards. Pass each side of your frame through the saw and lift out after the final cut.

Pretty slick, the only step I don't understand is cut 5. Could you elaborate?

Hmm, working from memory here and no pictures of those frames or the cutoff from "cut 5". Ok, after doing cuts 1-4 you will cut your miters on the ends of each side. Glue and assemble the frame. Let it dry. Doing cut 5 before assembly can be pretty precarious.
After it is dry you lay the whole frame flat on the table and do cut 5 on all four sides of the frame. The spacer allows the cutoff to not bind and the whole frame allows stability in the cut. Then lift your frame out of the cutoff carriage.
I hope that was a little clearer. Once you have done it one time.....::mind blown::
in this pic there is a dark horizontal line across the tape from cut 2. The vertical line is cut 5.

That got it! Thanks I understand now. That looks like fun, I will try that shortly and let you know!

Well, I have finally gotten back to my picture frames. I got all my frames glued up by themselves. I then glued them together and pinned them together with three 18g 2" finish nails each through the rabbets on the back. This thing is fricken' huge!

The next step is resawing the walnut for the wrap.