Hi Can anyone tell me what angle to set my tablesaw blade to rip hexagonal box sides? Any tricks to getting them to all come togather tight fitting? I plan to use tape to fold them all closed and when the glue dries cut in some cross splines. Thanks.
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Assuming you want to use mitered corners, you need to set the blade at 30 degrees. When I built a hexagonal waste basket from 1/2" Walnut to go with my Wife's desk (many years ago) I cut some test pieces first to test the angle setting. I had to tweak it a bit before all the cuts resulted in the final two edges coming together properly.
Good luck,
Richard Baker
Hi Richard: Thank you. That is exactly the info I needed. Yes the corners will be miters and I will test cut some scraps to get it right.
Hello Sanderdude,
Richard is exactly right. I've done considerable mitering and also compound angle joints. A Wixey digital gage is really helpful to set the table saw blade dead on.
I don't know how to guarantee accurate results, but I can speak to the geometry for your next project with a different polygon. The included angle of any regular (all sides/angles equal) polygon is (180*n-360)/n, where n is the number of sides.
(180*6-360)/6= 120 for a hexagon -->set the blade at 30 degrees as previously mentioned.
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