Does anyone have...

[pugilato]

a design for a jig for the MFT3 that can be used to cut picture frames?  I have one for the table saw that I am adapting, but before I commit, I would like to see if someone has something better.  Aside from cutting accurate 45s, I would like to see the ability to cut one 45, then turn it around and cut the other 45 with reproducible measurements, so that the two parallel sticks are the same length.

 

[PaulMarcel]

I just made a picture frame for my best friend; cut the miters on the MFT with Qwas dogs.  If your guide rail is set parallel a column of dog holes, this is accurate.  I position my fence and guide rail using the dogs and when I did a squaring cut on MDF and measured the diagonal, it agreed with Pythagoras to at most a 1/4 mm on the hypotenuse of a scrap with 20"-ish sides.

 

[windmill man]

Paul ,

Man your good. I cant even see 1/4 of a mm, must be my age [big grin] [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

John

 

[PaulMarcel]

...well I didn't say I didn't get a nose smudge on the scrap I used trying to see that close  [embarassed]

 

[Jesse Cloud]

I just made a picture frame for my best friend; cut the miters on the MFT with Qwas dogs.  If your guide rail is set parallel a column of dog holes, this is accurate.  I position my fence and guide rail using the dogs and when I did a squaring cut on MDF and measured the diagonal, it agreed with Pythagoras to at most a 1/4 mm on the hypotenuse of a scrap with 20"-ish sides.

How elegantly simple!  I tried it this morning and it was spot on.
Thanks for another "DOH - why didn't I think of that?" moment Paul Marcel! [big grin]

 

[Julian Tracy]

I've got the perfect tool for that -- a miter saw!

I have an MFT, but using it for that would seem a bit tedious.

Julian