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Rod

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Maple and Plane being processed

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I made this sledge to standardise the slats when I built my Porch Glider - holds the timber for passing through the thicknesser

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To be continued

Rod
 
Sort of Rob, making 6 but they’ll all be slightly different.
I’m going to use my Wealden Lock Mitre cutter
which covers the width range 12 to 16mm.
I’d prefer it to be a bit thinner but am going for 12.
I might make some later with fancier joints like dovetails.
The maple was 25mm thick so I took a 6mm slice off and will plane down to 12 with the thicknesser.
I could of tried to cut more miserly but would have probably cocked it up - in the end it went quite well.

Rod
 
Rod, why did you take off 6mm ? Was that for use elsewhere ?
 
Roger - With a new blade and a recent set up I might have risked 2 x 3mm cuts (for veneers). I was just erring on the safe side to achieve the finished 12mm after thicknessing.

Squaring up the ends on the shooting board

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Using the Mitre Lock cutter. The other piece is to prevent breakout - I should have finalised the pieces (depth) after this operation.

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The adjoining piece is cut held vertically against the fence. Really need to make a jig for this.

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Rod
 
Rod":dpcc4b9h said:
Roger - With a new blade and a recent set up I might have risked 2 x 3mm cuts (for veneers). I was just erring on the safe side to achieve the finished 12mm after thicknessing.

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Ah, that was my cause for concern. By slicing 6mm off just one side you run the risk of the wood bowing/distorting because you've not reduced any inbuilt tension equally from both sides. I know it's a pain but in these circumstances I bite the bullet and thickness the 3mm equally off both sides .
 
A bit of maths with a height gauge works out the height which varies with the wood section being cut.
The fence is positioned so that it just kisses the cutter at the height of the wood thickness.
It took a couple of test pieces to get it correct. The two pieces should line up exactly evenly

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The centreline worked out to line up with the bottom of the Centre protrusion.

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These can be kept as templates for future use for that thickness of wood

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For the vertical cut I made a supporting jig

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Rod
 
It’s a bit fiddly and great care has to be taken when cutting to keep everything firm and steady especially on thin a small sections like these.
Using wider sections and cutting to correct height afterwards would have made things simpler as any break-out could have been cut off.

Rod
 
I really love the look of that timber Rod, but for me I really don’t like that joint. Looks far too manufactured. Actually cheapens the look of the wood for me as it looks like a flat pack kind of assembly joint.

No criticism of you there, and the timber is beautiful, but ever since that cutter came out and the videos of it flew around I’ve never taken to it.
 
It might have been easier and safer to use a false mdf fence G cramped onto your brown jobbie which is then moved onto the cutter so that it 'breaks' through with no gap. Interesting cutter though; I see that Ax do them in three different sizes - Rob
 
Geeze Rob you reminded me of something I noticed lying around, I think I made one the last time I used the cutter!
There’s a video on YouTube showing the cutter used to make Box sections ie table legs out of thin materials (with a hollow in the middle)

Yes I did:

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Rod":12twnxq5 said:
Geeze Rob you reminded me of something I noticed lying around, I think I made one the last time I used the cutter!

Yes I did:

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Sometimes I have my uses...only sometimes though :lol: - Rob
 
Did a bit more this morning but gave up at lunch time when temps reached over 30C - sweating just standing still.

Stopped housings, cut 3mm deep, using WoodRat - a task it excels at. To be squared off using a chisel or maybe round over the “tenon”.
??

Rod
 
I bought a similar bit 'years' ago, because it looked like a nice bit to have when joining planks.

But .............

It was easier just to fit the biscuit bit and join with biscuits.
 
Spalted Beech, Blackwood, Bubinga, Cocobolo, Zebrano, Cherry, Walnut, Kingwood.

I’ve been collecting bits for years

Rod
 
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Progress has been very slow, my workshop is like an oven!

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OK...don't rub it in. Temperature in the low teens. :(

I really like those contrasting lids.

They are to store liquorice allsorts
 
[emoji3] could be - presents for the Granddaughters.

Another roasting day but it’s going to get back to normal by the weekend with maybe some rain!!??

Rod
 
I like the contrasting woods. Love the kingwood. 8-)

A box of tricks perhaps like a games box? :eusa-think:
 
Sorry I’ve mislead you by the words “type”, by that I meant the original designer of this type of boxes.
I’m sure Rob has his book, he has the same forename.

Rod
 
I’m planning to do some inlay on the lids so made up some jigs to hopefully speed up the process.

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I’ve got a Bosch router which is smaller than my DW625’s but had trouble setting up the Trend Unibase centrally. The setting up kit provided is a bit flaky and I ended up doing it by eye and some test cuts.

Rod
 
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