How to Make Wood Hexagons with House One’s Jenn Largesse | Ask This Old House
Ask This Old House host Kevin O’Connor builds a hexagon planter with maker Jenn Largesse, who demonstrates how to take advantage of the bevel cut feature on a miter saw.
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Time: 1-2 hours
Cost: $30
Skill Level: Beginner
Tools List for Making Hexagon Planters:
Miter saw [https://amzn.to/38gVMMb]
Shopping List:
½-inch 1×4 board [https://amzn.to/30kuZvq]
Sandpaper [https://amzn.to/2QRPNaq]
Painter’s tape [https://amzn.to/3abwII8]
Wood glue [https://amzn.to/2Nq0ajA]
Steps:
1. Start by calculating the angle for the bevel cut on the miter saw. To do this, take the number of degrees in a circle (360) and divide it by the number of sides of the planter. Then, divide that number in half. For a hexagon, it will be 30 degrees.
2. Set the bevel on the miter saw to 30 degrees.
3. Set up a stop block on the miter saw to ensure all the boards are the same size.
4. Make the first angled cut close towards the edge of the board.
5. Flip the board, slide it against the stop block, and cut again.
6. Repeat this process until you have six sides of the hexagon.
7. Smooth out the edges from all the cuts with the sandpaper.
8. Place the six boards in a row, with the shorter side of each miter face down. Use painter’s tape to hold the boards in this configuration.
9. Flip the taped boards over and add wood glue to each miter joint.
10. Roll the six boards together so the glue joints all come together.
11. Once the glue dries, remove the painter’s tape.
Resources:
Jenn demonstrated the bevel feature of the Kapex KS120 sliding compound miter saw by Festool [https://amzn.to/36T1ELf], though she mentioned that any miter saw with a bevel feature will work for the projects she discussed.
To make the hexagon, Jenn used 1/2” 1×4 hobby boards, which can be found at any home center. To secure them together, she used 3M painter’s tape [https://amzn.to/2FRuzDA] and wood glue from Gorilla Glue [https://amzn.to/2TowR4M].
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Crazyyyy
1:42 That angle shown is clearly more than 90 degrees. The angle of the wood cuts is 60 degrees.
LOOK AT ALL THOSE CLAMPS
She and Kevin would make nice babies.
I might make a birdhouse by adding a couple end pieces in a dado.
The directions weren't too clear I ended up building a 4 story house with 8 bedrooms in my backyard.
Wow!
What a babe!
Nice result but bad math.The sum of the interior angles of a regular hexagon is 720 degrees..not 360 degrees. Each interior angle is 120 degrees. Bisecting the angle you get 60 degrees. Now 90 minus 60 is 30 degrees.That's why the mitre angle of 30 degrees works.
Wow that’s cool
The hexagon necklace was a nice touch. Looking forward to more videos with Jen!
Pretty slick trick !
There are un-addressed challenges in this tutorial. She is really setting beginners up for failure. 1st – most miter saws bevel gauges are not accurate. She really should addressed calibration. 2nd. That stop block allowed the ‘point’ of the miter to tuck under it which will affect one’s ability to cut accurate repeated pieces. You’re not helping people when you don’t address the challenges
I would like to use this to make a pollen feeder for my bees. Lol. They love hexagon.
So…when can I work with her? She's gorgeous.
I see an hexagon on the plaid of her shirt
She's like that Seinfeld episode.. one minute she's hot and then the lighting changes and little kids are running in fear.
End grain glue joint? Hope they don’t plan on it lasting more than a year or so.
this old house is a show that built its credibility on not being a 30 minute jerk off house flip show. So why does it now insist on keeping up with the artsy fartsy Jimmy Diresta, Instagram carpenter, Susie pick-up-a hammer in yoga pants, useless tchotchke makers??? Please go back to working with real life professionals with real life advice to help the people who made this show successful in the first place.
The angle as shown is incorrect! The total is 120 degrees and half is 60 degrees. Ask yourself why is 60 an obtuse angle?????
1:42 https://images.app.goo.gl/JhZPt7YHmEGj5XH49
jenn could get it……looks like she might have got it. Looks like she may be a little pregnant.
Я думал это порно 🙁
PERFECTO!
GOD BLEES YOU
Dad teaches daughter, maybe daughter gets to teach son?!?!
No splines? Those can also be done on the miter-saw 🙂
This is the best hexagon video I've seen! I love how you explained the degrees so I could cut any number of sides.
That thumbnail + the first minute of this video would make a good start for a porno movie
Love your show and wanted to know more about this guest, but no good info provided in the video or description. After searching it l like she contributes to your House One site. I had been to that site before, but it looks like it has less info and projects now than it used to. I thought it was a good site. More videos of Jenn showing projects from it could help.
That was cool how she used tape, very smart!
What’s a tulltaterral?
Please correct the illustration of the angles on this video. You are creating bad information to the public who watch it.
This sucks, what other martha stewart bullshit are they gonna show next, Christ our society is a bunch of pansies so I guess this fits right in. Wtf is she even doin in there, get a man and build something other than Boy Scout projects, oh that’s right now there’s lil girls in Boy Scouts now. Sissytown here we come
if the board is cut upright, can't we use the mitre saw angle to make the cut? instead of bevel feature
i like youre skethcers
There might be some confusion with 30 and 60 degrees here XD
I believe that the angle has to be 60 degrees, rather than 30 degrees. 30, does not work out well.
How do you hold it all together with only blue holding it?
Splints or screwa?
Hi there, first thank u i loved Ur work, I’ve been trying and trying and I don’t get the perfect joint, why my angles are not perfect? Even though i find the way to put them together with gaps in the angles, then when i try to put them together on the wall the unions with each other are wrong, thanks again
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Quite confusing really. It shows two 30deg cuts clearly making more than 90deg. She meant to say each cut was 60deg. Be careful before you cut if watching this video