Dan, I think your absolutely correct and sneaking up on it is going to be the only real way. It's very easy when your talking straight lines, but you start tossing angles in there, your talking a new way of measuring and looking at things. Maybe if you have a really good background in math, which I do not and not for the lack of interest, you probably could work some numbers and figure it out and maybe not. I know just from cutting laminate for my flooring project, I had to learn to account for the blade thickness and the like and I still made silly mistakes. This does bring up an interesting question however. I've been toying with the idea of replacing my busted talking tape measure with either a new one or just get me one of those good old braille tape measures with the six-inch extension. I have my rotomatic which is great for many things, but there, are times where a tape measure is more helpful. So, true the talking buggers are more accurate especially with inside measurements, but the braille tape measures are less likely to crap out on you. So, has anyone really used one of these braille tape measures and found them useful? I mean useful in that you could work with inside and outside measurements?
On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Dan Rossi wrote: > Scott, > > You have gotten lots of answers here. I just want to say that if you > are > cutting a piece with outside corners at either end, well no matter > which > way the corners go, the problem is accurately measuring exactly > where the > saw blade will cut the piece of trim. > > It is easy if you are cutting a 90, but once you start turning the > blade, > it makes it difficult to get a measuring instrument rught up against > where > you need to measure to. Sneaking up on it is the way I did it. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
