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I will have a look at things tonight if you want. I can do some checks on how accurate it is...this will be a saw with a standard blade after 3years of use with no recalabration. Possibly a good guide?

I have never really thought of it as a fine wood working tool so lets see what it can do!

Piers
 
Ok up to Pete's tomorrow to give the deck another day.

So I have been in the garage prepping the rails for the railings.

I have a couple of MFT 1080 tables I tend to clamp some 12mm MDF on to the top against some dogs. I then make a freash cut in the MDF which give me a referrence to measure off for making a quick jig.

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All of the rails onthe main deck are ruff cut to 1200mm they will be trimed to size on site.

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Clamp acts as a quick stop.

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Dogs. My mft is set up so the guide rail is perfectly lined up with the holes in the table so I get a square cut if dogs make up a fence.
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I could have used the chop saw but didnt want tanalised timber particles sprayed into the atmoshpere! :shock: TS55 and CTL22 make things a bit cleaner! :D
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Rails laid out in pairs, Woodpeckers story stick comes into play 100mm centres on Deckorators spindles.
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Over to the pillar drill. Evrything marked up I whipped the fence of the router table, jury rigged the Ctl and got drilling!
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Forstner bit made nice holes...had to go to and buy a new set as mine didnt have 19mm :x . Still the new set has quite a few that the old one didnt so between the two sets got most things covered now! :D
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Trying out a new method of attaching rails with this deck...brought an off cut of 19mm thick plastic. Chopped it up into 50mm squares.
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Made up a quick jig for routing out mortises. I cut down a nice straight peice of scrap to run the router along and then clamped up the rails to this. I marked up some lines on the scrap to give me the mortise length / locate the end of the work peice.
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Out with the OF1010...little belta! Love this router! :D
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Couple of pics to give you a clue to the maddness of my method! :wink:
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If you hadnt guessed already the pics are of the bottom of the rail.



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Number two son(8) is coming up with me tomorrow which should be fun!
Will update with progress after tomorrow.

Piers
 
Right a quick update. I managed to get up to Pete's Sunday but it was a bit of a horrid day. We rigged up a big blue tarp to cover the whole of the top deck so we could work in the dry.

It work really well but by the time I had got up there and we had sorted it out it was 11am. We had to push on to get things done so no WIP pics just where we got to.

We put in three railing posts got all of the boards down on the main deck and one section of the railing in.

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We reckon we have one more full day to get the railings in and faff with the step between the levels. Then its fiddling around finishing which could take a lot longer and hopefully involve sun shine beer and barbies!! :D :D

I have learned a lot from doing this for Pete and Jen...the main thing is that I wouldnt want to do it for a living!! There is always a big difference between doing things for yourself on your own place and doing things for other people.

Your own stuff you can do over time, this project I had to fill the car and travel and do as much as possible in the time I was there...Knackering and stressfull.

Will update as and when!

Piers
 
Alan Jones":rxck8a52 said:
She's teething at the moment so got a terrible temp and very sad baby :(

In case you've not tried it, Ashton Parsons powder, from most chemists works a treat for teething - far better than anything else we tried. Might be worth a go?
 
Alrighty spent Sat arvo and Sunday up at Pete's trying to get things finished.

No work in progress pics but some of where we got to...Pete surveying his land...or Titanicing?? :D

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Outdoor tumble drying?? I thought that was why we put a washing line hole in the lower deck

Nice bit of ard wood for the hand rail...most importantly wide enough to lean on and place a beer!!

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Glued and pocketholed butt joint I did think about a half lap joint...decided against it as a butt joint will allow easier repairs (hopefully never needed) and was quicker!

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Linking step in.

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Now all that is required is a wrap around step down into the garden and planting to soften things. It will be a while before Im able to go up and finish this as SWMBO has ordered me to get stuff sorted at home!! :oops:

Piers
 

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