Dividing angles - the parallel board method - Woodworking Tips!

A little while ago we looked at the first and most important method used in joinery to divide angles, using a pair of compasses. Today we're looking at method #2 for angle bisection - the parallel board method. There'll be a couple more methods coming up in tips videos so don't forget to subscribe! This method is handly for bisecting angles in all sorts of situations - if requires having a board or plank of wood to hand with perfectly parallel sides, such as a piece of skirting board / baseboard.

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[wayward_dom]

Easy peasy lemon squeezy, always struggled figuring out angles. Top tip, cheers 👍👍

[josehmaru]

This is way simple and clever... This is from now on my go to method .

[edwardhugus]

Great tip. Always knew the compass way, never thought of the board tip!

[NickDV]

Nice one Andy 👍👍👍 People may finally realise that by going back to basic, you don't have to spend a fortune on fancy tools and digital gauges to find an angle 😉

[hansdegroot]

Many things are so easy when you know how to do it.
Great tip. Thanks for sharing. In case 'd need this kind of dividing more often, I think I'd prepare a dedicated piece of wood (MDF, tile, glass) for this purpose and mark it somehow as an extra tool.
After 4:03 I expected you to flip over the bevel to show us the double check that indeed those angles are really exactly the same.
But then I realized this is not possible because of the screw you tighten the angle with.
I suppose it can be checked moving the shorter leg of the bevel towards the newly drawn line (just on the other side of that
line where the longer leg of the bevel is now.

[munkytaint]

Equally easy to understand as it is helpful. CHEERS

[lilchugi]

Finally the video I've been looking for thanks

[samsama]

you make life much easier.you are great.

[jasonchild]

HI Andy. just stumbleded upon this. Even easier way, means you don't have to draw it out on paper. Get a piece of scrap with a square edge, smaller than the length you will need. Butt it against the wall (as you would with skirting, stood up) where the join is and push as far as the wall will allow (towards the join). Pencil line the floor where the skirt sits, in front. Same on the other side. Where the two lines cross, (your angle) mark from here back to the place where the wall join is. Use a bevel and set the angle. Use scrap to try. Any gap at the front, lessen the angle slightly, any at the back, make it more of an angle. The angle should be the same on both sides, but in reverse. Done. Hope that makes sense. How a carpenter does it..

Cheers

[ronmartens]

Excellent. Thanks for the time doing this. Useful. As I have been doing some brick paving lately.

[gp]

Applied high school geometry. I love it!

[Tazzy]

Great hint, worked a treat when I was foing my decking, thank you

[Cloppa]

Didn't think u could get any easier then the starrett protractor but this is so simples! Once marked I'd have peeled the sticky tape off the floor and stuck it on the piece of wood to cut!!

[WoodworkingBrewer]

Great tip for skirting board on a none 90 corners too cheers Andy.
P.S. you forgot to mention the podcast starting next week, glad I’m subscribed to both you and Peter.😁👍

[jc]

Excellent, thanks for this great tip.

[brianpatrick]

I like your system alot! Bosch make a really nice angle finder that might be a better layout tool instead of bevel square? But then again i use the bosch for metal rail layout and not wood. Good video

[kierenhudson]

Could you use the angle finder in the corner of the joint say its says 98° for example... could you do
180° - 98° = 82°
82° ÷ 2 = 41° and set that on chop saw without needing to draw?

[mariah]

Thanks for sharing that super useful and handy tip. I've screenshoted it so I've always got it handy :-)

[ianscottuk]

Thing that never seems to be discussed is why you actually have to bisect the angle in order for it to As I have just found out doing a bay window sill

[EddyCarroll]

Great little tip Andy. And congrats on hitting the big 2-0!