When finishing an attic (and in other situations), you may need to alter the back of cove molding to fit an angle greater than 90¡. This bandsaw guide allows you to make the alteration quickly and accurately. First, cut out a guide block that can be clamped to your bandsaw table, as shown in the sketch. Then, trace the profile of your molding onto the end of the guide block and bandsaw a molding-shaped hole in the block to permit the molding to slide through with a light-friction fit. Next, cut away a sawblade clearance channel in the block.

To use the device, clamp it to your bandsaw table so that when the molding is fed through the cutout in the block, the blade will trim the back of the molding at a new angle, as shown. By tilting and shimming beneath the block, you can rip both back corners of your molding to the desired angles.

E.G. Lincoln, Parsippany, N.J.

Fine Woodworking Magazine, June 1991 No. 88

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