Oh dear!! I'm leaning towards the bearing guided cutter.. Just need to check the sizes for the chamfer I need.. As I mentioned earlier it's not clear on the diagrams I'm seeing.. Even on the Trend website.. It might be my browser
this forum is great by the way! I'll be flying along soon - I'm going to hold the skirtings in two woodwork vices - one at each end of a wheeled bench that I can pull out into the middle of the workshop - I am just building such a hence - agricultural but solid!
I've looked at the trend bearing guided cutters - I don't know if it my browser or me but I am struggling to get the dimensions of these - the chamfer I need is 13/14mm depth in to the wood.. probably was done to half an inch. The cut face is approx 20mm (some are a bit bigger)
There are a...
I looked up router and fence - most of the router tables come with a fence but I presumer we are on about a fence attached to a handheld router - like the ones on hand circular saws…...
There are some great suggestions here.., I'm going to likely go for the bearing guided cutter and the above suggestion from 'chestofbooks'.. Thanks andypa.. The description of the chisel guide is most helpful.. Our house is victorian gothic and the book n the link refers to the use of stopped...
I like the router cutter idea... The boards might be a bit long to slide along a router table so maybe best using some sort of guide.. Though that cutter looks like it would guide itself!
Thanks Bugbear - that is in fact my skirting board…. had I known you were in my hallway earlier I'd have put the kettle on! :wink:
I will have to figure out how to upload one for myself of course…
I appreciate all the help and suggestions so far.. I really don't fancy doing it all by hand...
Hi All - I'm a newbie so go easy on me!! A big first posting
I live in an old house - victorian gothic style, bought it to do it up. It has had many of the skirting boards changed for modern cheap ones but in some parts of the house there are the original 8 or 9" stopped chamfer skirtings which...