Dividing Angles for Woodworking - Old School Compasses Method!

Today we're looking at how to divide or bisect angles using a pair of compasses - this is an essential woodworking skill. There are numerous methods of bisecting angles, this is just one of them. Other methods include using two parallel pieces of wood, a digital angle finder or a mitre gague with in-built angle splitter - I'll cover these in future vids. I find this method is one of the most accurate ways of doing it and especially handy if you need to cut the angles off-site.

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[KILO]

Dude! You're a life saver. I've been wracking my brain back to high school on how to do this to finish some quarter round trim on a really odd angle. This helped so much! :D

[MarcusT]

The last part where you butted the top of the sliding bevel to the underside of the MDF pieces, and it fitted snug as a bug, was so satisfying!

[munkytaint]

great tip, Andy. as a beginner woodworker, this is exactly the type of information i find most useful! thanks

[meidadb]

For me personally Very useful video.
thank you
Best regards from Israel..
I hope all of us will help each other always.

[normanashcraft]

Thank you. Installing baseboard up a staircase. This made it so much easier.

[dancingbear]

Learned to bisect angles in high school geometry class. By far the most useful class if your interested in building things. In reality it’s so much easier to use an angle finder but it’s nice to learn how to do it manually.

[AndrzejJeczen]

Just bought a sliding bevel gauge and this is very useful. Thank you.

[garyb]

Thank you so much, Andy, for this tutorial. I live in LA but I'm from Stockton and I said to myself, 'trust a Geordie to make it simple to understand.' Great job! Now the missus is going to think I'm even smarter still when I'm building stuff around the house.

[whitedoggarage]

Thanks Andy, great video. I found it a good refresher and I would hammer the point about transcribing the angle on to paper or even a piece of wood scrap if you are taking it away. I have lost my angle a number of times early on and learnt the hard way to do this. Thanks again, Bob.

[eibaby]

As a newbie to construction, carpentry and shingling, this was really helpful for a new garden area I made. Thank you much!!!

[jameswburke]

Just what I needed to know. Replaced roofing felt and old fascia boards on garden shed - thanks.

[truesolution]

That's what we called Construction Loci. Awesome application!

[KeithMinnion]

My dad taught me this, back in the day. Good memory - thanks!

[SoTexSmoker]

Great tip. I wish I could see exactly what you were referring to at the 2:00 mark (camera angle). Figured it out as we went along. Thanks....

[eketelon]

I SO wish I could have found this video a week ago when I was trying to learn about this very topic! I got it figured out but it was a painstaking effort as everyone else seemed to make it more difficult (at least for me). Thank you for your time and talent. Can you also do one on figuring out compound angle cuts that are not for crown molding but instead but joints?

[spencertrueman]

Great tip. Divided no angles has caused me no end of pain lol ..thanks again 👍

[ChrisBarrett]

I’ll be showing this to my year 11 GCSE students. Love a bit of real world Maths

[Godzillak]

I SHOULD have remembered this from high school geometry.
Thanks for the great video.

[MrSbenn]

Thanks very much for sharing, Enjoying the podcast with Peter M as well, so thanks v much for that too!

[crafts_avenue]

I wish I found this tutorial before cutting and ruining my project
thank you so much for simplifying it.