Took 6 tries to get my book board corners clean without tearing the fabric

I spent a whole Saturday cutting corner miters at the wrong angle on a Denim-bound Coptic stitch journal before realizing the trick was using a scrap piece of binder's board as a template for the exact 45 degree cut, has anyone else discovered a bizarrely simple fix for a problem that ate up way too many hours?

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daniel_lane3023d ago

Oh man, a scrap template saves so much frustration.

the_charlie23d ago

Yo @daniel_lane30 you're so right! I finally made one for a woodworking project last week and it saved me from messing up the same cut three times in a row. I just took a piece of scrap ply, drilled all my holes and marked my angles on it, then used it as a guide for the real piece. Worked way better than measuring every single time for sure.

jakel3623d ago

Five or six tries is rough, but I've noticed the same thing with all kinds of stuff - the trick is always something stupid simple that you kick yourself for not trying earlier. Like, I used to spend an hour trying to level a wobbly table by shoving napkins under the legs, then one day I just flipped it over and tightened the screws holding the leg brackets on, worked perfect in five minutes. It feels like half of "expert" knowledge is just somebody else's scrap template that they figured out after wasting their own Saturday.