Recent content by rupertrawnsley

I might give a spokeshave a go then, although I will probably need quite a small one to match the nooks-and-crannies of the wall. Thanks for the helpful suggestions everyone!

I am fitting about 10 metres of pine strip wood against an uneven stone wall atop the oak upstands of my workbench. Using the brilliant Profiler scribing tool I can get a very good line, which I can then jigsaw out for a rough fit. To get a really close fit, I need to remove small amounts of the...

Just a quick follow up to say thank you all for the advice: the result is a very neat fit in the corner. I ended up clamping a fence to the piece at the desired angle and making the cut with a circular saw. I found it very difficult to make a flat, straight cut with the router, which refused to...

@Zeddedhed Thanks for the super quick response. I thought [2] was the way to go, but I wanted to measure twice and cut once ;-) I guess I will overlap the worktop by slightly more than the router offset distance and that should give me a line to clamp a "fence" against and guide the router. I'm...

I'm building an L-shaped workbench out of two 3000mm x 620mm x 40mm oak-stave worktops. I understand that the best way to connect them is a simple butt joint with metal ties in routed holes and have the ties and router jig to do this. The walls are lime rendered stone and very bumpy, but I have...