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If a pair of matching joints slide together when dry with only minimal resistance and no play then they will glue nicely. When I make doors I tend to make the mortice and tenon joints so that the tenon will just slide through the mortice under it's own weight without any pressure being applied...

Looking at which way the joints run it appears to be side hung.

Hi all I recently purchased a set of Freud RS 2000 blocks and cutters and took a look online to see how much replacement cutters would be. I could only find replacements for sale in USA and most were not available for export to the UK unless the cost of shipping was about £100. It sounds...

I would say that it may be slightly quicker to only chop hinges into the door and not the frame but if you want a top quality job chop in to both. I've been in the trade for over 40 years and a lot has changed in that time and a lot of what we used to do is just dashed over now and to be honest...

Not absolutely sure but I think you may find that egress windows as a means of escape are only considered necessary by building control on the Ground and First Floor (First Floor after the Ground Floor). I think that once you go above a First Floor height you need other means of escape other...

Try using a blade with less teeth also one that is slightly narrower. A router and template guide would do a splendid job, but it may work out a bit costly to buy a new router bit for just one cut.

Ouch might of miss understood cabinets as meaning Kitchen rather than workshop! In which case I can understand the mention of Melamine faced MDF but it's still not hard wearing enough for this type of use if you hope to use the surface for daily use.

Peter, Why would you use melamine faced MDF? It has a very thin surface finish which is not intended for work surface use in kitchens. Formica has a long established reputation for use in kitchen worktop use and is capable of standing up-to the rigours of daily use but Melamine faced MDF has...

If you purchase a quality sheet laminate like Formica then working with it should not be too much of a problem. Before post formed worktops became the norm we used to do our own using Formica and contact adhesive. We would use a tungsten formica cutter to score the surface then bent it to snap...

Sapele is maybe interlocking to some extent but ok to work if you use a block plane on the final finish. I have machined rough sawn hardwood (Sapele) into a door frame using a table saw, electric hand held planer and hand tools, it took me an evening to make the door frame. It was when I was a...

Yes sorry, I stand corrected on this as the one you are showing the work-surface range that has a laminated core that is is made up from: layers of Kraft Paper , impregnated, with phenolic resin and a melamine impregnated surface. They do also however offer an panel with an MDF core that has a...

Approximately 100 woodwork magazines free to whoever collects them. Please note: Please do not post on here that you will have them, or that you will collect them and ask me fore first dibs. Comments like these sometimes put people off thinking the item is taken and then the poster fails to...

Just made quick check and it looks like it has an MDF core so is laminated. But also looks like quite a useful material for shop-fitting, Bathrooms, kitchens etc.

No offence, but I have always thought of solid worktops being one core material throughout the thickness and Laminated as being made up of more than one layer of material. I would think that you could describe a worktop as being laminated or solid but solid laminated is confusing. Plywood is...

Interested, Not sure of the height, how tall?

Is this still available?

Are you sure your pictures above are of laminated worktops? They seem to be solid composite worktops to me.

Trying to visualise what you want to achieve here. 3x2 frame if it's in inches would be very substantial but probably too heavy in section for supporting a breakfast bar. A few sketches would be very useful to get an idea of what you intend building. Doors are readily available if you do a...

When I buy softwood timber for good quality framed windows, doors etc I ask for joinery grade timber. If you ask for timber for a specific purpose and it's not suitable for that purpose then you can reject it. I don't really bother asking for unsorted etc as timber yards often sell what...

I wish you all the best. Mark