Bob,

* Robert Hutchins <rhutch42@s...> on Wed, 13 Mar 02, wrote:
> Bugbear wrote 
> > Do ya' know the "mitre clamp" trick?
> No, but I hope you will enlighten me.

I suspect that what he's referring to is the use of a clamp that can
join two pieces of wood together at a 90 degree angle.  Use of such
a clamp is very helpful when transferring the locations of the first
saw cuts (pins or tails) to it's companion.

I don't have a commercial mitre clamp, but you can build the equivalent
very easily.  There's a shot of my version on this page:

  http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/woodworking/mag_cab.phtml

Chris
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