Woodwork joints; how they are set out, how made and where used; with four hundred and thirty illustrations and a complete index of eleven hundred references (1921)
Fairham, William · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 189
In these cases the timber is cut so that the jointis at 45 degrees to the face, and the two pieces, when placedtogether, form an angle of 90 degrees (a right angle). The term mitreing, however, is not confined to the fittingof timber around a right angle ; it may be justly appUed JW. j^^ M Joints… … Fig. 397.—Finding Angles for Straight Mitres. column or pedestal, and probably it would be more correctto describe the joint as a mitre cut at 221 degrees. Mitreingconsists of halving the angle and making each piece tofit the fine of bisection. Should the angle be bounded bystraight Hues, as at…
Woodwork · Carpentry
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