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    Making pine shaker kitchen doors

    cheers chaps, what would you use as the centre panel?
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    Making pine shaker kitchen doors

    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...
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    Is elektra beckum pfk 255 v8 saw dual voltage?????

    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...
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    Best materials to make book case/storage unit

    Pine it is then, once again this forum has been a great help although i did like the plasticine idea !
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    Best materials to make book case/storage unit

    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.
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    Best materials to make book case/storage unit

    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.
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    Question for the domino users

    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.
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    Floating shelf, which materials are the best?????

    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...
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    Floating shelf, which materials are the best?????

    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?
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    Floating shelf, which materials are the best?????

    so jasonb would you make the outer skin thicker and the inner frame narrower or would you make the whole shelf thicker?
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    Floating shelf, which materials are the best?????

    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.
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    Floating shelf, which materials are the best?????

    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.
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    Floating shelf, which materials are the best?????

    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...
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    Which router table

    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
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    Which router table

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

    I have been looking at getting some sort of router table as i need to make some handle less kitchen doors. I like the look of the Kreg prs 1040, but its a bit pricey and i would want a router in it permanently as i use mine quite a bit. What about some thing like this...
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    Waterbourne lacquers

    Has anyone tried morrells waterbourne lacquer? i like the idea of it as the AC stuff isn't very nice. I am spraying MDF.
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    router cutter for handle less kitchen doors

    It is an awesome router, bit heavy but loads of grunt! I like to have the OF handy to take on site but would like a small table router fixed in the workshop. I could prob make a table for the OF but its having the time to do it, plus setting the fences up.
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    router cutter for handle less kitchen doors

    Would a 1500w table mounted router be good enough to use with these bits? I have a Festool OF 2200 router but i don't really want to stick that in a table.
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    router cutter for handle less kitchen doors

    thanks for the info chaps
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