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I just bought a set of mitre shears from Lee Valley Tools; they are commonly used apparently in Europe for cutting small mouldings like base shoe and the like. Looks like a pair of pruning shears, with a table with gradations marked on it at various ancles (45, 90, 120, etc). Just put your moulding on the appropriate line, and squeeze. Definitely cuts softwood and mahogany, no problem, though i have to experiment more to get the technique down. I bought it to use on a recent job, installing polyethelene tee- mouldings on fifteen forty foot rows of partitions we built for a call centre; the partitions wound down the table like a snake, with a slightly different mitre at each of 120 stations. Once you got your eye in, the shears did a great job. I can see them as a good alternative to lugging a chopsaw down to a basement, or walking outside every time you need to make a cut. A guillotine type mitre trimmer in combination with this tool might go quicker than recutting small pieces that explode on the chopsaw, and a lot more portable. You can also get a set of jaws that do dowels, squares, etc for another 5$ I think (Can. dollars). Very well made tool for the money.
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I just bought a set of mitre shears from Lee Valley Tools; they are commonly used apparently in Europe for cutting small mouldings like base shoe and the like. Looks like a pair of pruning shears, with a table with gradations marked on it at various ancles (45, 90, 120, etc). Just put your moulding on the appropriate line, and squeeze. Definitely cuts softwood and mahogany, no problem, though i have to experiment more to get the technique down. I bought it to use on a recent job, installing polyethelene tee- mouldings on fifteen forty foot rows of partitions we built for a call centre; the partitions wound down the table like a snake, with a slightly different mitre at each of 120 stations. Once you got your eye in, the shears did a great job. I can see them as a good alternative to lugging a chopsaw down to a basement, or walking outside every time you need to make a cut. A guillotine type mitre trimmer in combination with this tool might go quicker than recutting small pieces that explode on the chopsaw, and a lot more portable. You can also get a set of jaws that do dowels, squares, etc for another 5$ I think (Can. dollars). Very well made tool for the money.