Can anyone give me some tips on tracing and cutting out deck boards for the posts for the railing? I have bolted my posts to the inside rim joists and I’m picture framing the deck to hide the end grain of the composite decking that I’m using. Now I’m finding out how complicated it is to calculate the cutouts for the posts. My deck is odd shaped, mostly 45 degree angles.
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I usually slide the board to be fit with it's gap against the previously attached board to get the intersection points- I'm sure someone will explain that part better. But I wanted to tell you once the cuts made it surprises me how noone wants to take the time to route the bullnose edge around the post cutout- it looks like you cared and erases the pencil outline at the same time!
I usually deck it first, then install the posts. I use a router to cut out for the post.