SlowSteve
Established Member
Hello all.
I have a large, heavy hinged lid on a large box that needs some rescue work.
All four edges of the lid - made of a very hard pine, or some sort of "hard softwood" have had 100+ years of hammering and are a total mess. I would like to cut the worst off with the router and then attach new wood to them and trim everything to fit.
Dimensions at the moment SHOULD be 48" x 24". However, given damage, they are effectively 47" x 23"
I am thinking of ripping this down to 46 X x 22", and then attaching 1 inch of new wood all around, then planing everything to a perfect fit.
I was initially going to use a hard pine and try and blend it in as best as I could, but I am now thinking of using a contrasting coloured hardwood and essentially wrappng the whole lid - the pine is a dirty brownie yellow colour - so I was thinking either a dark iroko, a rosewood (both much darker) or a light coloured wood like Ash or Maple.
My question is about attachment - if I go down this route, the hardwood band will be bearing the whole weight of the lid. Is a simple glue joint enough, or would I be better doing something like a full length tongue, or shooting dowels through every 9" or so.
I'm also not sure about movement of the wood - do I need to be worried about a hard and a softwood moving at different rates?
Steve
I have a large, heavy hinged lid on a large box that needs some rescue work.
All four edges of the lid - made of a very hard pine, or some sort of "hard softwood" have had 100+ years of hammering and are a total mess. I would like to cut the worst off with the router and then attach new wood to them and trim everything to fit.
Dimensions at the moment SHOULD be 48" x 24". However, given damage, they are effectively 47" x 23"
I am thinking of ripping this down to 46 X x 22", and then attaching 1 inch of new wood all around, then planing everything to a perfect fit.
I was initially going to use a hard pine and try and blend it in as best as I could, but I am now thinking of using a contrasting coloured hardwood and essentially wrappng the whole lid - the pine is a dirty brownie yellow colour - so I was thinking either a dark iroko, a rosewood (both much darker) or a light coloured wood like Ash or Maple.
My question is about attachment - if I go down this route, the hardwood band will be bearing the whole weight of the lid. Is a simple glue joint enough, or would I be better doing something like a full length tongue, or shooting dowels through every 9" or so.
I'm also not sure about movement of the wood - do I need to be worried about a hard and a softwood moving at different rates?
Steve
