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cheers chaps, what would you use as the centre panel?

Evening all, A customer has asked me to make him some shaker doors using reclaimed pine, what is the best way to construct them?? I was think about making the stiles from old reclaimed pine beams then routing a groove in which i can slot some veneered pine board to make the centre panel. I...

Hi, i purchased a elektra beckum panel saw second hand a few months ago. It came with a 240v to 415v converter, everything was going well until the converter blew up!!! I spoke to a company called digital drives who informed me that the transformer i had was not fit for the job. I need to know...

Pine it is then, once again this forum has been a great help although i did like the plasticine idea !

My only concern with pine is that doesn't it have a tendency to warp? I like the idea of the birch ply and the pine lipping, that might be the way to go.

Hi i have a customer who has asked me to make him a book case approx 1m high x 1.2 m wide, he has two in another room made out of pine and stained. He has asked me to make it out of whatever i think is best, he doesn't want to pay for oak. Any advice would be appreciated.

I used to work for festool and its not some thing that i can remember coming across very often, i would take the cutter back and try and get it replaced, it should be able to cut through knots.

hi jasonb so as my shelves are supported on both sides and the back do you think i should till use rods in the middle ?? or is that a bit OTT? Do you make your shelves soild mdf all the way trough?? As you can tell its my first time making these and the customer is very picky so its got to...

The shelves do span the whole alcove, i plan to fix a timber to the wall and then fix 5 100mm long rods to the timber. I will allow for a slot at the back of the shelf to slot over the timber,is this ok?

so jasonb would you make the outer skin thicker and the inner frame narrower or would you make the whole shelf thicker?

do you think that i would be better off using 18mm mdf cut into 34mm strips as the frame and covering in 6mm mdf??? i am hoping to build them at the weekend.

i think it must have happened during the drying stage, should i just make another shelf in the same way then? i prob should have gone for 2 x 1.

Hi, I have been making some modern furniture for a customer and they asked me to make some floating shelves to fit in an alcove 1600mm wide by 250 deep and the shelves no deeper than 50mm thickness. After a bit of research i opted to make a frame out of 32mm x 32mm kiln dried plained timber...

what router would you recommend i run in the table, i've got the festool of2200 but dont really want to use it in a table as i would like to leave it in situ

Defiantly swaying towards the rutlands table, looks pretty good for the money.