Cutting angled joints

[gr3nade 10+ year member]

I've always just built standard boxes where all of the joints are 90 degree angles. I'm gonna be building a box for my silverado tomorrow and it will be oddly shaped with miter cuts I think they're called. How do you join these type of cuts? It doesn't seem like you can screw them together.

Here's a pic of what I'm talking about

And also how do you measure the angles? Do you just guess and keep trying until it fits your car?

Thanks

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[rocky 59 5,000+ posts]

u can crew them together or use liquid nails and gorilla glue. but you can screw them together. and if thats a truck box isnt it backwards?

 

[gr3nade 10+ year member]

u can crew them together or use liquid nails and gorilla glue. but you can screw them together. and if thats a truck box isnt it backwards?

I was just using that pic for an example, it's not mine. But actually it is for a Silverado, it faces down towards the floor.

 

[rocky 59 5,000+ posts]

if there not to sharp you can screw them.

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

And also how do you measure the angles? Do you just guess and keep trying until it fits your car?

Thanks

You could either

a) Get a sheet of paper, and cut it to align with the angle. Then either use A^2+b^2 = C^2 to get the angle, or get a compass

b) see if it's been done for the same truck, and ask people what they used. Did that for the BMW box.

 

[Omarvelous 10+ year member]

I'm gonna be building a box for my silverado tomorrow and it will be oddly shaped with miter cuts I think they're called. How do you join these type of cuts? It doesn't seem like you can screw them together.

Well i know of a Miter Saw, that mainly does like molding, 2X4 type stuff. To get angles in wide sheets of wood, u'd have to use a Table Saw capable of doing angles.

i remember http://www.bcae.com had a cut sheet for angle boxes.