Place all the pieces on a flat surface and test fit them. Like most good woodworkers, I enjoy sharing what I’ve done with other woodworkers – for FREE. Once you determine the correct shim placement and thickness... all stars produced with this jig will use the same shim and shim placement when making the 2nd cuts to the pieces. When the intersecting lines are removed, the star polygons are no longer regular, but can be seen as simple concave isotoxal 2n-gons, alternating vertices at two different radii, which do not necessarily have to match the regular star polygon angles. Several smaller angles can go together to create the total 360 degrees. Because miter gauges are notoriously inaccurate and you can often end up with a small mountain of 88.9° angles right from the start I'd suggest investing $65 in a miterset, miterset.com for setting your angles right the first time. Do not use pin nails if you intend on beveling the star at a later stage of building unless you position them so the saw will not cut into them when you cut the bevels. Mark where the end of the board is positioned on the jig... drill a hole for your stop dowel. In this case I found that even though I have these tools... they are not really needed to make these stars. 2 years ago, Thanks for the info. 8. (as shown in the drawing). Also do you use the same jig? Since a star has five points, if we wanted all the points to be the same, the center angles would be 72 degrees (360/5=72). If you build other size beveled stars you may have a different angle of bevel. Pull the jig toward yourself so you can position the board you are cutting against the stop pin and along the angled edge of the jig. I hear you about the availability of tools folks may have, but as far as I'm concerned anyone with any kind of a table saw, cheap or top of the line a miterset is absolutely indispensable. Drive in a 1 1/2" Kreg screw. Choose an Angle. While you're at it a $20 Wixey angle set for your blade can't hurt either.. ;). The center line you drew is step 1 is your zero-degree mark. Learn why and how to draw a star by dividing a circle into equal angles. This tutorial will show you how to make a 22 to 24" wooden star with a single 8 foot 1x4 or 2x4. This is about designing a pentagram. The star picture above is a 12 inch beveled star painted yellow mounted on the front of a 25 inch flat star painted green. I tried to find information on the web on how to make one and did not find anything at the time so I sat down and worked out how to do it. Also, the star is laid up with alternating sides of the board, up and down, i.e. The largest I have ever made is on a 4.5" radius for a Captain America shield, but you can go as big or small as you need. ), Move the fence out from the blade, place the petal in the jig and line up the jig with the fence positioned so that the blade will cut the part. I have found a piece of 1/2" plywood with a couple of stand off pieces of 2x4 at each end will also work a clamping table. A little big is better. You don’t need studio-quality lighting or an HD video camera to shoot a good sex tape. 4. Start the table saw. This leaves about 2" extra on each end of the boards in this case. So my super talented friend Jaime from That’s My Letter ran into a little problem the other day. (Like cutting boards are made) This helps to prevent warping of the finished piece. The drawings illustrate how the center star cutouts work. 9. 13 degrees in order to put a bevel on the pieces for a 24 inch star or 18 degrees for a 12 inch star. We have that the exterior pentagon has 5 angles, which sum up to 540 degrees, and it includes the 5 angles we want plus additional stuff. Lock the fence down. Cut two pieces of 1/2" plywood to exactly 20" by 6.5". It's a starting point only. In the case of the 24" stars... the base star (solid) is cut from 11" boards but notice we are using 14.5" boards and splitting the difference so the cut leaves about the same at each end. Next, make a removable stop block in the jig by drilling a hole for a dowel in the base of the jig (whatever size dowel or pin you may have on hand) at a point 12 1/4" from the right edge and "at least" 3/4" away from the angled face of the jig. Other woodworkers – for FREE hurt either.. ; ) a $ 20 Wixey set... Why and how to draw a star by dividing a circle into angles. 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