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A finish guy in Boise told me my trim miters looked like beaver chews, so I changed one thing
Two years back I was doing a big door and window trim job in Boise and feeling pretty good about it until the finish carpenter walked the rooms with me. He pointed at a corner and said my miters looked like beaver chews, which stung because he was right. Turns out I was cutting fast and leaning on the saw blade instead of letting it come to full speed, so every cut had a tiny hook in it. He showed me his method: clamp the piece, ease the blade down slow, and check the gap with a flashlight before gluing anything. I started doing that on every miter and my scrap pile went from about a third of my trim down to almost nothing. How do you all handle tight miters on stain grade stuff, do you tune the saw or just fill and sand like I used to?
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