Woodwork UK

MJ80

Ita made by SWL in Germany, I'm over here and its a new one to me. Not sure who supplies it in the UK, Lathams Lawcris perhaps?

MJ80

Are any of you guys using or have used the MDF faced blockboard?
I'm thinking about it for kitchen carcasses and door panels.

MJ80

I'm in the middle of Germany.

This is a bit out of my comfort zone and I have been overthinking it and avoiding it for far far too long. Plus they do some things differently here and it keeps throwing me, I find it hard to follow the logic sometimes.

MJ80

Thanks Mark, I'm going to break the panels into three parts, I'm really worried about cracking. I have been over thinking this for far too long. The difference in temperature ranges in the summer to the winter here can be quite extreme. In summer it has the lunch and afternoon sun, which can be utte...

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I have fielded panel to make for a front door and can't make my mind up which way to orientate it. Its going to be an insulated panel - sapele each side of some celotex, door is a crazy 88mm thick. The panel is a single unit and quite wide I can't make my mind up which way to joint it, with the grai...

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I hate the stuff as well, until I had a lesson from my Uncle who is an old decorator, now I can just about bear it.

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Have you tried a bead of caulk round the edge and a quick wipe over with a damp sponge to fill the edge. I don't think brummer or the morells filler will too easy round the panel.

MJ80

Have a look at the Paul Sellers common woodworking. I have been trying to get my kids onto it as it#s a good introduction to tool basics and has some easy projects involved. I would also make them draw something at least once so they can lay out off the drawing and see how it relates to the actual o...

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I'd be surprised if you got a price for hardwood boards. You would normally get a per cubic foot or cubic meter price. Boards often vary greatly in width over the length and you will be paying for some unusable timber. It's best to go down and pick out the boards you want, the amounts can rack up qu...

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A standard bathroom mortice lock should fit it

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Ate they going into an alcove? I have build and installed ladder frames into the alcoves then clad them with veneered and solid front. It can be a pain to fit, scribing and sometimes templates but they look good when done. Price wise I always found shelves are always mote expensive than you would th...

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I never had much success with them. They tend to droop over time and trying to get them to sit nice on old walls is a nightmare. Another option is a bit of threaded bar resin anchored into the wall.

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https://www.oldtools.co.uk/products/rec ... ade-no-778
you can also get them from faithfull
I really wouldn't be bothered about the provenance of the blade,it is there to do a job and more than likely it will only be doing it part time. Keep it sharp, keep working.

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I'm looking at making and offer on an old manual triple screw veneer press. Have you any idea how much it might weigh?

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I'm finding it hard to figure out which bit to be shocked at first!

MJ80

They still point at airplanes where I live, and the old people in the village still talk about when the road came. No joke. The cities are very different, I lived in Hamburg for a year 20 odd years and that was amazing, but the countryside here has its own ways. When we moved over I was very very sh...

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No its been Germany for the last 6 years. Been renovating an old farmhouse amongst other projects that keep me busy.

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Non Le Bosche land

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It' needs to be the router cutter, Wealden don't have any in stock for a while.

MJ80

Has anyone got an Aquamac 21 cutter they would be willing to part with?
Beg borrow or steal

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Hi David
I have got the normal sitax and it wants 20m/s or 3600 cubic meters an hour. I think yours will do a bit wider so probably somewhere around the 4000
Hope it helps

MJ80

That is another option I had considered.

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Funny you should be asking this. I'm over in Germany and the whole door system is completely different here and they are reliant on the domino or large dowels as the standard fixing system. I'm literally about to start the front door for our house and it has been giving me the most enormous headache...

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I did that and it worked really well. Well until I changed back to a 30mm. In the interviening time I had sold up my machines in the UK and had the heads in storage. Got hold of an big old moulder over here and put the head on. Started it up, the machine started making a terrible noise and decided t...

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My old TS75 is really starting to struggle. I have mainly been using it for rough sizing timber before I get it to the table saw. Over here I am buying everything now from the sawmill in big packs or boules and the boards are a bit of a handful. To be fair I need to get another saw for ripping thick...

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Fantastic job, I would love to have a go at doing a handrail like that. I've only done a few stairs but have always enjoyed them.

MJ80

What about Morrells stain?

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120mm forster bits are available. You could use one with an extension, I'd probably use my core drill to turn it.
The bits are about 80 euros for a cheapy over here.

MJ80

I don't think so Bob. It is to do with the guarantee with the finished product. Hehe fabrication has to be done by an approved trained fabricator.

There are some chipboard core worktops with a thin layer of solid surface available. They were pretty expensive and I have never used them.

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Hi Mark
CDUK in Leeds are the UK Corian distributors.
Any questions drop me a line. I did my fabrication course years ago.

MJ80

I'm going to keep an eye on this. I keep looking into this but find it pretty hard to get my head around. Ideally I want to build something that has a pretty high gantry, but there are stability issues on smaller home machines.

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Absolute crock of s**t. Had a z3200. Worst machine I have ever owned Doesn't stay square - outrigger fence Blade height and tilt adjustment is terrible Scribing saw adjustment is even worse. Wished I never sold my Scm for that. When I sold up in the UK a dealer who sells them new had to be begged to...

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It needs replacing

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If only it was that simple here, you need to be registered on the official roll of hand workers and or have a firm uses the products with a unique tax ID code.
It is insane, but that will change when I register down the line. In the meantime I'm really happy with the prices on the Quattro runners.

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I can't use wurth here because I'm not registered as a company. I have to go and beg to buy boxes of packers paying cash. Properly insane. Same goes for Hafele, there is a big warehouse about 30k from me, but I can't have an account here. So I order it on my UK account and get it shipped back over. ...

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Thanks for that, I'll give them a go, the price here is really competitive against the Grass ones.

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Anyone using Hettich Quattro 4d runners? What are they like compared to the Grass Dynapro? I have used them before but years ago before the 4d adjusters, have they got better?

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I did a edpm dormer last summer. Had never done it before and bricked it. It was really easy and simple to do in the end. If you go to a roofing place you should be able to buy the amount you need off the roll.

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I always used the dynapro runners for timber drawer boxes. If I remember right they do two sorts, one has an extra 3d adjuster for tilt of the drawer front. The adjustability on them is really good. Never had any problems with them. Would recommended them.

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Is there a link to that?
I've had mine years and it's a good bit of kit.

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