Compost Screen

Step 2 Cut the wood

Use the chop saw or a miter box to cut four pieces of the redwood of equal lengths. I made my screen 22"x22" (It couldn't be much bigger since I started with an 8' long piece of wood). Make your cuts at 45 degrees so that all four pieces can fit together like a picture frame.

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[pfred2]

 When I make these I use glued and screwed lap joints. They're easy to make, and about as strong as it gets. Lap joints might not be quite as pretty as miter joints but I'm not hanging mine on the wall either.

Maybe the next one I make I'll try making a mitered lap joint. A bit tricky to execute, but it'd be the best of both worlds. Then again, my lap joints don't really kill me in this application.