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Hi Again oh learned ones. I seek advice again. As some will have seen from my other posts I am trying to build a hanging curved floating shelf / hanger. I have now worked on an idea of french cleat to secure to wall. Ideally i saw some slimline aluminum ones but alas not available here is SA...

Hi all I've thought I'd managed to do the hard bit on building the vacuum pump, making the bags and the forms but I'm a bit stumped on how to trim my piece to finish size. I need to trim the downturns of the piece so they are all flush with each and also the front edge. The max I would be...

Hi all So with the help of this site and Joe Woodworker I built myself a vacuum pump and bags. Based in South Africa it wasn't the easiest thing to source some of the parts needed. Bu it seemed to work! I know could do with some advice on the trimming and sizing of the the piece. There will...

Hi all I want to construct the attached. It will made up of around 15 - 16 separate sections of 18mm ply. I have had templates cncéd for the shape already, my production process is: 1. Mount template to first ply piece 2. Use flush bit to trim ply to size, rough cut shape already 3 . Remove...

Hi, Regarding the images attached how would one go about making something like this. I see the procedure like this: Cut and shape first solid piece to size Glue / screw next hollow piece onto solid piece making sure hollow piece internal shaping is machined to finish size (how would you do...

Hi want to build the attached for myself. Intend to use bendy ply, want a finished thickness of around 30mm. So intention is to use 5 x 6mm pieces, pressed together in a bag press over a former. Will the span be OK, I know it would be OK with a solid ply sheet but not sure with the bend ply. My...

I am going to form the attached with bendy ply, does anyone have any ideas how I could cut the two ends straight. As it won't be perfect when it comes off the form. Thanks

Hi Need to fit out an advertising agency office so the owner has some 'arty' ideas. She is wanting movable walls. They need to be at least 2400mm high ideally 2600mm. There are two banks of walls, one run being a total run of 7875mm ( 3 x 2625mm sections )the other 5100mm ( 2 x 2550mm...

Hi I am looking for a cheaply priced roller for applying PVA glue to flexi ply panels / veneers (intend to start making some bendy shelving etc). I am rather shocked at the price of some of these branded units with hoppers, way,way more than I want to spend. I have seen some rollers from...