What tools would you use to cut this angle ?

[Elegantcho]

Hi guys, quite new to woodworking and have a few questions.

I am trying to make a chicken coop but getting stuck at cutting the angle on the TOP ( as shown in the picture below ).

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Would you cut each board and then clad or would you put the frame and use a circular saw to cut it ?

I have been thinking of getting a mitre saw and cut each board but as I said I am quite new to woodworking and still unsure.

Just to add I been putting the frame together then clad the 4 boards and used a table saw to cut but I am just not good at it and it just doesn't seem to work.

(p.s - sorry for my bad english )

 

[CHJ]

Welcome:-

Your English is fine.

Why not assemble the frame, hold the boards against the frame and mark cut lines with a pencil and saw by hand.

 

[DTR]

Welcome:-


Your English is fine.

Why not assemble the frame, hold the boards against the frame and mark cut lines with a pencil and saw by hand.

That's exactly how I did the roof of our bike shed, although I may have cut slightly over-length, then planed back the ends in situ with a jack plane.

 

[sunnybob]

Nobody does it right first time. Nobody.

Try it, adjust it, try it again. Thats the only way to learn if theres no one to teach you.

I have one of these, and use it a lot.
http://www.axminster.co.uk/true-angle-a ... s-ax782701

 

[AJB Temple]

Looking at it, an unmodified mitre saw will not do it anyway. The maximum angle on most mitre saws is 47 degrees. You can get round this but for what you are doing I would simply use a handsaw.
Get the angle using a protractor, or angle finder on a combination square, or by using a paper template, or by putting your smart phone on the frame and reading the angle off the angle app. This is better than trail and error as it will get your first trial pretty close.

 

[Lons]

I've built a number of pent roof sheds and have always fixed the cladding and sawn the surplus off with a crosscut handsaw. Dead easy just use the frameing as a guide to run the say along. I circular saw is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut imo

Bob

 

[Elegantcho]

Thanks guys for the replies,

Would you say a plunge saw would do the job better than handsaw ?

 

[TFrench]

Not if you're doing it with the boards already attached to the frame - it would be pretty hard to hold the track in place on a vertical wall! Seriously, a new, sharp hardpoint saw will do it in no time. Just take your time and don't force it.