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Thanks everyone I think I have cracked the hole for setting the doors so its on the edge of the door. I used the 21.5mm measurement as a starting point for the centre of my bit and was able to adjust to get it looking reasonable. Now I have cracked it on the scrap I will saw it down and use...

I have some bog standard 35mm hinges from B&Q to hang some wardrobe doors. I am practicing on some scrap at the moment and want to know what I need to measure from the edge of the board to find where the center hole of my forstner bit should be when I am starting to drill the hole. The...

Cheers for your advice Stanleymonkey. I will do this this weekend. I have only just realised that if I secure the battens to the ply all along their length with glue and screws they will be secured all along the length of the ply rather than just the corners. In my head I was thinking that the...

OK so I'm terrible at sketch up but even worse at drawing. If you imagine that this is the front of the cabinet frame: These are the mortise and tenons: and this is the lap joint that will hold the front and back frames together: I am thinking of adding another upward support beam in...

The 6mm ply would be glued up x 4 so would be 24mm planks once glued! At first i was just going to glue and screw timber battens together to make the frame and then line it with ply but I read that butt joints are weak enough to break by hand. And glueing and screwing the battens through the...

Thanks for your quick reply and good advice! I should clarify the glue and saw statement a bit and say that i won't have a workshop full of power tools (tablesaw, router etc). I own a drill so can screw the planks in place whilst the glue dries or buy clamps but I have watched videos of glue...

Hi Everyone, I am an absolute beginner to woodworking and hope to make a sturdy 2000mm x 1600mm x 600mm cabinet on casters that will hold heavy equipment. Short question is: Is the edge grain of plywood still classed as long grain for gluing purposes. The reason im asking: I plan to just...