Cutting Angled Wood Strips (Staves)

of the quarter inch red oak now we needed to create the angles on both edges to be a consistent angle throughout the entire cylindrical travel if you will and so the angle that we picked was 78 degrees now you can go with different angles different angles will give you basically a different size of the beer stein in terms of diameter but also it'll give you a much harsher transition so we felt 78 was appropriate enough to kind of make everybody happy once we chose the angle we set our table saw we use this yellow jig called the grip or the gripper basically is just another jig that allows for you to press down on the stock on your table saw to create as as a consistent cut through the entire piece of stock of wood also keeps your finger safe now after we got all the links on both sides all tapered and angle the way we wanted them we had to kind of chop everything up that would accommodate the overall height of the beer stein so we brought everything to our miter station now the trick at this point is to create repeatable cuts right so we created a little stop lock which is basically a scrap piece of wood that we screwed right into the plywood of the miter station once it was there we just kind of bumped all the wood to it and kind of sliced and diced as we went now