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   douglas2cats | Feb 04, 2006 04:31am | #1

   What are you going to make the curved panels out of? Are you trying to get mitered corners all the way up the curves? If so, I'd try to eliminate all the compound angle issues and make up some type of curved form jig that you could fix the panels to and cut the 45's with the panels in their standing position. I'm currently working out some similar issues with some odd profile moldings with multiple 15 deg bevels and the jig approach is working out pretty well so far. It was either that or a whole bunch of various compound angle setting cuts which hurt my head just thinking about it.

   If you build it he will come.

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   hogwood | Feb 05, 2006 01:14am | #2

   Good advice. I do need mitres all around and along the entire joint which has infinitely changing angles, so your jig idea will do the trick.

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   douglas2cats | Feb 05, 2006 02:20am | #3

   I had another thought. If you're doing bent laminations to make the curved panels and don't mind sacrificing the bending form after laminating, you could cut the form at 45's and use it as your holding jig for cutting the miters on the panels. The height of all this stuff probably means you'd have to use a handsaw or maybe bandsaw to cut the miters. A flat japanese style saw held against the sides of the jig then followed up with a handplane registered against the flat sides of the jig would probably work.If you build it he will come.