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    Bobby's new build thread

    Not on any real personal level, have bumped into him on the Shenfield / Brentwood circuit through friends of friends over the years and think he bought me a pint of Veltins in the Terrace bar years ago. I know who he is by face and a hello. He kicks around with the generation above me. He has...
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    Bobby's new build thread

    Yes, a good area to work in where customers will pay for quality, I was Shenfield born and bred and walked through the Mount every day to school, it's really what built my company. I moved out about 5yrs ago as begrudged 1.5million for a 4 bed semi, but still have a yard and 2 machine shops in...
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    Bobby's new build thread

    Looks Really nice Bob, Nice to see you have given thought and taken time to do the walnut centre panels in consecutive / book matched veneers. Really makes for a clean uniform finish and just gives the kitchen a true handmade finish without people ever noticing. A sign of craftmanship at its...
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    How things have changed

    May I suggest getting cutter knives made to copy the Domino profile.... We have and turn all our hardwood scrap into dominos in every size..... I was trained with a love and respect for beautiful Hardwoods, craftsmanship and dedication to hand tools..... BUT!!!! Was also trained in...
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    Lets dream for 5 minutes; your lottery win workshop?

    From a GRASS IS GREENER view point..... We have three warehouse sized joinery facilities with at least two of every dream machine you could possibly want.... And currently in the middle of building from the ground up a new workshop....... If I won the lottery I'd bang it all on the head the...
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    MFT Top

    Thanks for the heads up Adam9453 Our main vacuum tables are zoned so we can direct the power as we wish.... Might be a bit much to add this feature to this MDF prototype!!!!! Lol
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    MFT Top

    Whilst laying in the bath last night looking at this on my iPad I took a look at that company and have some very interesting stuff on there! Looking at their small vacuum hold down table made me wonder if it could be done on a larger scale (8x4) lol fitted to 150mm mains extraction system in...
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    MFT style cutting / assembly bench

    Adam9453 I think you have nailed it!!!! That would be a fantastic idea to overcome the issue, be it a simple 2x1 hardwood section run around the edge or if built into a bench a 3x2 section with an 18mm rebate for the board to sit in and easy replacement. Would use something hard like Maple...
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    MFT style cutting / assembly bench

    The last picture shows one in buffalo board as we have a team on external works at the moment so handy when it rains.
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    MFT style cutting / assembly bench

    Very good point Discostu! We produce an mft style top 800mm x 1200mm in mr-mdf for our installers out on site which they just pop on stools and clamp down. They fit a t-track along the edge for fast clamping and alignment. May not make sense but put into practice it is a good system. The main...
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    Plywood joint thingies

    Yes very common in commercial case work, we do a lot of it. These are cnc cut so saves on tool change time hence reduces costs ect. Say the internal dividers are 6mm ply then the whole file is drawn to optimise a 6mm compression cutter for the internal rebates and on the finger joint corners it...
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    Hinging one door of another

    First time trying to upload a picture so sorry if all goes wrong!!!!!!! Not exactly the same but these are pocket door system we made a while ago but has doors hung from another. We had concerns similar to your as the doors we made are 44mm thick solid ash over 2.3m high and around 950mm wide...
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    Waterproof mdf panels???

    For no real reason I would have said no!! but just looked up on the wall in the office and there is the Medite Tricoya broacher hanging up and has a picture of a kids outdoor play centre slide on the front cover!!! So YES!! LOL
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    HSE moan

    In 15 yrs we have had the pleasure of the HSE 3 times as far as I can remember, the first time the lady was more interested in what we was making and how it was made, all she said was keep the place tidy please! we clear down and all waste removed every night before we close anyway as forms part...
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    building extension with steel frame

    Hi, Not shore if it comes under the same thing but currently putting up a new steel frame warehouse next door to our current warehouse and the pads have just been poured and steel frame is about to go up. If it is the same sort of system im happy to ask the steel frame guy's any technical...
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    Coffee table or a dining table

    Fantastic idea for utilising space and function!! And still looking pleasant! We produced something along the lines of this years ago for a large telesales company up north to use for Hot-desking. There was about 40 of them in a large communal office space so could be used whilst sitting on a...
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    Shipping containers

    Make shore you tell them it is just for storage (water tight and locking) as you will just pay a premium for an export reg one. We have had them from Bullmans delivered to Essex and Suffolk yards for the same money. They usually have old ugly battered one's they will get rid of for delivery...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    LOL! I think our eucalyptus is a bit different to this Jarrah so don't rush for the chainsaw!!! You was close tho with pallet feet! Jarrah is largely found in railway sleepers.
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made

    Very nice! The wood is Jarrah (eucalyptus) Very hard but machines well.
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    anyone run their own design and manuf furniture co.

    Very good post AJB Temple..... And as most of my career in the industry and its expansion have been down to "CHANCE HAPPENINGS" the above happened to me by chance, I built a company that exceled in one area of the industry and at its height was producing over 60% of it product for one major...
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