Finally, think about where you’re going to use it. Most mitre saws can be mounted to a workbench, but others have their own stand. The choice you make will be governed by how and where you’ll use it. Fix your timbers in place, ensuring that the joints are butted together as well as possible, but the timber itself is fixed in it’s correct position. If you are planning on painting your architrave or mitred timbers then it’s still possible to get a great looking finish. For the purposes of this DIY guide we’re going to be cutting mitres for a piece of architrave to go around a doorway.

Morso F Mitre Guillotine 1500mm Metric Morso F foot-operated guillotine cuts double 45° mitres, in wood and polymer mouldings for quality bespoke framing.

Cutting a Mitre Joint Using a Mitre Block

One of the most important factors that will determine how accurate and successfully your joint is, as with many other DIY jobs, is your initial measuring and marking out.

With each position of the fence, make both cuts; flat cut first, followed by vertical cut. Make the final passes very light ones, to give the best possible finish. Purpose-built adjustable fence stopsRotate the cutter so that the tongue is in its furthest forward position and set the fence so that the centreline on the test piece is lined up with the outside edge of the tongue.

There’s no real right or wrong method of marking, just make sure you know exactly where you have put your mark in relation to where you need to cut. Even a fraction of a millimetre off and there will be a gap in the joint that will stand out a mile off.

A boxed Morso F weighs 100kg so you’ll need to make some plans for how you’ll take delivery of it. Delivery is to kerbside only unless otherwise agreed in advance. Angled bevel laying on mitre saw bed to set correct angle for mitre saw What if my Mitre Joint isn’t that Accurate? As we have mentioned, cutting mitre joints using a hand saw can lead to the joint itself not being a 100% accurate, but this isn’t the end of the world. Read on below for tips on how slightly inaccurate joints can be rectified. Once we have a template of the angle itself we then need to find out exactly what the angle is. You can either use a standard protractor or it you have a compound mitre saw handy, you can use the mitre scale to work this out pretty accurately. This is an important point to consider as if you mark your pencil line directly on the cutting point, meaning the cutting point is at the centre of your pencil line then you will need to make sure that you cut through the middle of the pencil line.