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Could have been one from the Cheap Chinese Crap Company. DAMHIKT.

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Double check because some cutters are 6mm.

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Jas is full of hot air

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LOL...my thoughts exactly

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The good news or the bad news ? Trimmed the riser and offered up the nosing/transition strip combi. Looks good, eh ? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49394004026_f575422cc6_c.jpg Um no. A very, bloody, Godawful, sit-in-a-corner hugging myself and sobbing quietly NO. I forgot to factor in the thic...

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Hey Roger...thanks for that. Good to hear from you.

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I'm a bit surprised this doesn't get more mentions because it really does what it says on the tin. Very easy to apply. No odour. An oiled wood floor in 4 hours. Hard wearing as well. It's green, as well, meeting the European Ecolabel. Tools can be cleaned with water. The only 'downside' - if you can...

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If you recall, one issue bothering me was how to secure the riser to the subframe since it couldn't be fixed prior to veneering. Idea 1 was to glue blocks to the inside face and then screw them down to the bottom subframe panel....like so.. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49328785727_c9fbc6846f_...

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woodsmith wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 14, 2020 8:45 am
You said you liked a challenge, but did you expect it to be this challenging

In a word.......No !!

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So here we have the larger nosing and transition piece (for the bottom step). After my little (ahem) mishap, managed to finesse routing the nosing back to the template plus rounding the corners over with a different cutter. The outside radii in the troublesome area were finished off on the linisher....

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Thursday I was planning to work on the riser readying it for finishing but discovered that the veneer had lifted up slightly and buckled right at the far end and so that needed fixing but no further work due to glue setting. This is the main niggle of this project...too many dependencies, waiting fo...

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Well done. That small router table was my first one. Does the business. I double-checked my hand trimmer, and you're right ..it does plunge. Sort of. My bad. My gripe about it is that usually when you plunge you need both hands to keep the router where you want it. The knurled knob that this electri...

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Looking good

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Interesting project with some good challenging problems to overcome. If the 6mm MDF piece doesn't want to stay bent or stay where you want it to go have a look at laminating a pair of 4mm strips together instead. Also could you affix some curved doublers to your top and bottom boards to give you so...

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I’ve had two suggestions for ‘easing’ the curve on the 6mm MDF risers : cutting a load of kerfs (RogerM TWH2) and using a hot air gun (ProfChris UKW). Since it’s over 2m long, the thought of cutting all those kerfs didn’t appeal and so I gave the hot air gun a go and it worked a treat. You have to b...

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'Compulsory' holiday got in the way of much progress :evil: But tolerably pleased with the veneer after the earlier panic. Obviously still some finessing to do. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49304818386_e5a7dd7993_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49304815641_ff14a8dc50_c.jpg Attention...

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I've got one of those and think it's horrible to use. It doesn't plunge.

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And slightly out of sequence ... This project is definitely something you wouldn't want to tackle as a paid job. Way too many if's and but's and 'How the hell am I going to do this?'. A lot of interdependencies affecting the sequence and timing of the work. First off is getting the sub-frame sorted....

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Managed to get out into the workshop today to veneer the arc for the bottom step in the vacuum press. Not used it since we moved three years ago. Ran it up and it seemed to suck OK. Veneer pieces all cut. A nice bit of veneer for the top and some constructional veneer for underneath to bring the ove...

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AAAARGH......it was meant to be a puzzle for fun !!! That's why I asked for replies in a PM !!! Oh dear, I've made a blunder there then Roger :oops: I can only say I'm really really sorry mate! Can you think of another one :roll: and I'll promise to keep my big gob shut! :cry: Merry Christmas LOL.....

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AAAARGH......it was meant to be a puzzle for fun !!!

That's why I asked for replies in a PM !!!

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I like a challenge !

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Imagine you want to have a top made from two types of wood (say, ash and oak). The ash is a semi-circle and the oak will go round that semi-circle as a border. You don't have any pieces of wood large enough to make each part out of one piece and so decide you need to make some templates from ply and...

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Not quite. This is what I am making.

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Do you mean like one of these ? Or neither ? I see difficulties with both (A) and (B)

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I've never had much success with laminations in the past. Are talking about orienting the laminates vertical or horizontal ? Whichever way, I do still foresee a difficulty in moulding the bullnose in one coherent sweep and certainly when one gets closer to the walls on either side, there won't be ro...

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No worries at all, Mark. I appreciate your input. You're probably right TBH. The first curves I made I did exactly as you...just that I kept taking small cuts at a time. I did go all the way through the first few but it took a while. Probably six of one and half a dozen of the other TBH by the time ...

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Cut partially through the ply with the router on the long trammel.

Rough cut the remainder with a jigsaw taking care to leave a mm or so oversize

Run it through a bearing guided trimmer on the router table using the router cut edge as the reference.

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But...we have a plan. This is the final design. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49208670348_1faf1ea883_z.jpg The nosing (or edge moulding) …the one thing that was causing me grief …has been resolved by making it from coopered segments. It will be 40mm deep (ignore that extra line on the image th...

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To go in here ...(original thoughts but read on for the current plan!) I'm making up this pair of steps to manage the transition in level between two floor levels thus. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49188226178_baec617f1d_b.jpg Please note...that ghastly colour of the floorboards is not like t...

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Roger do you know if this finish is for new wood only or if it would go on flooring that's been Osmo'd years ago. Love the idea of odour free and quick drying. Sorry, Keith, but you're out of luck. Bare wood only. Thanks, that's a pity as I've developed an allergy to Osmo and can't use it or any of...

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mark270981 wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 20, 2019 6:44 am
We could draw and spin the components off for that in no time.

If you want in the new year I will do it for you FOC if you buy the materials - I’ll do it whilst you wait.

That's very kind of you, Mark. However, my 7 hour round trip is a bit of a non-starter

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woodsmith wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:18 am
Roger do you know if this finish is for new wood only or if it would go on flooring that's been Osmo'd years ago. Love the idea of odour free and quick drying.

Sorry, Keith, but you're out of luck. Bare wood only.

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It's two steps for our house. If I survive with all fingers intact it will be a miracle.

I'll post up a thread here later. Top step is obviously a smaller one.

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As a CNc veteran I am unsure on the accuracy of home built ones? But I do wish I had done that to start with as I would’ve learned more about the . Instead every call I out I have costs 800 quid - (we don’t have many to be fair) Well worth it in my opinion as your starting point then you won’t get ...

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Thought I'd add a bit on this. After a few floors were laid down, soon became apparent that a lot of their filler was not that secure. So I continued using the Fiddes ... great stuff. I tried adding stain as their MD suggested......note to self...water based stains and alcohol based filler do NOT go...

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As a CNc veteran I am unsure on the accuracy of home built ones? But I do wish I had done that to start with as I would’ve learned more about the . Instead every call I out I have costs 800 quid - (we don’t have many to be fair) Well worth it in my opinion as your starting point then you won’t get ...

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so they can call it solid wood rather than a veneer , even though the solid bits are loads of crap glued together . The flooring in the link above has a plywood middle layer so not solid wood throughout. Just been laying an Oak floor today (floating floor), the flooring has a solid Oak top layer an...

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jfc wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:09 pm
so they can call it solid wood rather than a veneer , even though the solid bits are loads of crap glued together .

Maybe they're an offshoot of OakFurnitureLand

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Welcome to the forum. I think it's nothing more than a gimmick. In everything that I've read, manmade boards are chosen for their stability. So an oak layer over a manmade board is going to be stable. Why go to all the fuss and bother (and probably increased expense) to stick a layer of fingers of o...

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