Encourage students to ease into a pose and include qualifying phrasing, such as positioning the foot at “approximately 45 degrees,” positioning the knee “toward 90 degrees,” finding ...

Speed squares are a helpful saw guide for cutting 45- and 90-degree angles. The plastic squares are thicker than most metal ones, making them a good fence for the shoe of a circular saw to ride along.

Then I move the blade to 45 degrees, checking with my angle gauge, and set the 45-degree bevel stop. This allows me to quickly position the blade at 90 and 45 degrees, the two most common angles ...