How to cut
45 Degree Angle
How to cut basic 45 degree angles
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hi welcome to Johnny works today I am
teaching how to cut 45-degree angles the
most basic angle you can cut okay maybe
you went out and bought a miter saw or a
skill saw and you ready to get your feet
wet always wait glasses watch out for
your fingers okay make sure no kids are
around don't leave that being plugged in
and let's get ready to go the first
thing before we even cut anything go buy
one of these right now literally leave
right now go buy one this is a speed
square okay under ten bucks
I forget seventy bucks whatever it is
okay buy one of these bad boys has got a
45 degree angle already on one side the
other side square that's my 90 okay this
will be your best friend for marking
ahead of time so if you're looking at a
new project to working on you could mark
it ahead of time with your pencil what
direction you want that thing to look go
over to you saw lay that thing down
you're ready to cut and then look at it
and say mmm that's right way I'm going
am I going the right way
alright so this right here is two feet
two feet long short too short okay if
you do not know what that means I'm
gonna show you right now okay 45 degree
angles on both ends alright from this
point right here this would be called a
short point or if I went the other
direction say I'm gonna walk in this way
or I'm facing this way this is called
the short point okay the point of the
board that you're cutting if it sticks
out farther than the other one see how
it's on angle was longer than the other
this long measurement would we call a
long point and the short measurements
called chill point it's the same on both
sides okay put it down flat with the 45
side towards the end of my board yeah
make a pencil line alright sliding it
over here lining up my blade with my
pencil mark
from that point I should say from this
hook my tape and come over 24 inches
okay
once I make my 24 inch model grab my
speed square again now I see the angle
coming back towards me okay now if I
want to go long too long I hooked on
that long point I made a mark and now
I'm gonna now instead of hooking I'm
gonna put my speed square right on that
mark I'm gonna make sure that the angle
is going back towards the other angle
because I wanted to go long - long long
point a long point I make my pencil
marker look at it for a second all right
the long points up here the long point
both of them are on the same side of the
board the board's going this way in this
way towards each other okay so that must
be long too long okay so 24 inches or 45
long too long on the flat okay this is
our flat I go this way it'd be more like
a double cut thank you without grabbing
the trigger line up my blade hold my
piece down watch my fingers
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forty five-degree long too long
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and I could do what they call bevel all
right so I undo the lock and bevel my
saw lock it in now I'm locked in at 45
degrees on a bevel okay so I'm set a
straight cut even straight cut on an
angle now I'm on a bevel so now when I
cut this angle
it's on a bevel okay see this board
right here that's about a long point and
this one's my show points just like it
was when I had another plant like this
okay so if my father-in-law Big Joe
wanted a 24 long too long
I would hook here Oh with my tape
measure till I got to 24 inches and I'd
make a little pencil mark like I did
take my speed square make a little angle
now I know that I'm going the right way
finger there and now I'll mark this with
my speed square
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look on that so whatever measurement you
want if I want to go two feet I go two
feet 24 inches okay make a pencil mark
grab my speed square okay I want to go a
long point to Long Point I'm gonna go
backwards towards Madeline if I want to
go long too short
I put the forty-five ahead of my mark I
run my square until I just about make it
to that mark and now this would be
considered long too short okay it's
gonna be the same angle in both
directions like this
long too short okay 2424 all right today
on Johnny works I'm going to teach you
how to cut angles alright today I'm
going to teach you how to cut the most
basic you don't have your Grandpa's old
handsaw we I'm ghost tight halfway
through you like I got a update oh yeah
alright today we're gonna teach on the
most basic 45
