Until recently, framing walls with 45° angles had been something of a pain. I’d always end up with an odd-shaped void right on the corner on the outside face of the wall. Just leaving it would bring threats of bodily injury from the drywallers, so we’d have to cut an even more peculiar piece to fill this annoying gap. Then we discovered a way of filling the corner easily, with a minimum of waste.
First we rip a 4×4 diagonally on the bandsaw (this can also be done on the 10-in. tablesaw but it takes two passes). Then we set the tablesaw fence at 3-1/2-in. and rip each of the halves, long side down, as shown in the drawing. This leaves us with two pieces that have a kite-shaped cross section — two 1-1/2-in. faces and two 3-1/2-in. faces. This kite shape precisely fits that odd space at the corner.
—Tim Pelton, Fairfield, IA
Edited and Illustrated by Charles Miller
From Fine Homebuilding #22
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