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Pretty simple. Just make your cuts. if you don't have an electric mitre saw you can use a mitre box and hand saw. Or if you have a lot of patience, draw a line and cut with a hand saw. Or, if you're Chuck Norris, use precision round house kicks.
On the topic of precision, mitre saws are not. If I had to guess they're probably accurate to within +- 1 or 2 degrees. If you're cutting a lot of pieces at small angles (like I was) your wedges are not going to be identical. This means that at the end you will have to compensate, probably by adding an extra piece, which is what I did. If you have some extra wood you could make practice cuts and find where on the saw the angle you're looking for is.
Keep in mind that that the angle "theta" mentioned in step 1 is the angle the piece will occupy within the ring. Another way to think of it is the angle the trapezoid would make if its sloped sides met and it formed an Isosceles triangle. The "mitre angle" is the angle you will be cutting at, which is half of "theta"
On the topic of precision, mitre saws are not. If I had to guess they're probably accurate to within +- 1 or 2 degrees. If you're cutting a lot of pieces at small angles (like I was) your wedges are not going to be identical. This means that at the end you will have to compensate, probably by adding an extra piece, which is what I did. If you have some extra wood you could make practice cuts and find where on the saw the angle you're looking for is.
Keep in mind that that the angle "theta" mentioned in step 1 is the angle the piece will occupy within the ring. Another way to think of it is the angle the trapezoid would make if its sloped sides met and it formed an Isosceles triangle. The "mitre angle" is the angle you will be cutting at, which is half of "theta"
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