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i need to know how too layout and frame with 45 degree angles
Hi Frank, gee, I don't know where to start. If you have a framing square and hold equal numbers on each blade, i.e. 12" and 12", across one edge of a 2x4 or whatever, the blade that you can scribe a pencil line on is a 45 degree angle. If you have a speed square and place the raised edge of the speed square against the edge of any nominal lumber the angled edge is 45 degrees. You can lay out a 45 degree angle by measuring equal distances on a square and connecting the two measurements with a line. For framing a wall you can cut a 45 degree angle on one plate and butt a square plate into that making the points meet. This will give you a little gap on the inside of the wall but your drywall or paneling with span that minor gap. If you are doing exposed carpentry and need to create a 45 degree angle with both plates having the same width, then you divide the 45 dgrees in half and cut each plate 22.5 degrees. This degree setting is shown on a speed square. By cutting both plates at 22 and a half degrees the inside corner and the outside corner will meet at the same points. Just remember that if you have a square, if you measure the same distance up each leg and draw a line from those points you have a 45 degree angle. I will attach a simple drawing to illustrate..I hope this information helps, feel free to write again regarding this or other matters, sincerely bruce e johnson..bejohnsonconsulting.com
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Bruce E. Johnson
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