Oak kitchen makeover

[jedmc571]

No further progress on the project today - been busy sorting out another little "toy" which I pick up tomorrow :wink:


Karl

Now what have you bought :shock:

Your as bad as me :lol: I bought that surface planer from Axi last week just because I'd used the thicknesser the night before, and it needed a friend :lol:

The doors look mint, looks like I'll be round for a masterclass :wink:

What's the difference between Webrax, and Scotchbrite ?

Cheers

Jed

 

[Karl]

Bryn - I wouldn't use the iron on tape. I've tried it before, and it looks good once on, but it is a PITA to get stuck on. Nowhere near as the iron on melamime tape you use for MFC.

Jed - you'll have to wait for the pics of the new toy tomorrow. Let's just say that it won't fit in the car and has to be towed back :wink:

Those boards are the panels for the replacement cupboards, not doors. The doors will be a shaker style with a little detail round the edge. I'll be starting on the doors next week.

Don't know what the difference is with the scotchbrite - i've never used it.

Cheers

Karl

 

[jedmc571]

You've bought a horse :shock:

 

[Karl]

Close, but no cigar Jed.........

That's the summer holidays sorted for this year!

More progress on the kitchen project tomorrow.

Cheers

Karl

 

[Mr Ed]

When I've done this in the past I've held the lipping in place with a few 18g brads while the glue goes off. The holes are so small that filled with suitably coloured wax you can't see them. Means you can trim straight away.

I also prefer to make the lipping a much closer fit and trim with a plane, rather than the router.
Ed

 

[jedmc571]

Holy dung :shock:

I thought you'd bought an old cast table saw for some reason :lol:

How cool are you for half term with your kids 8) they can practise next week in the garden.

Cheers

Jed

 

[Karl]

Tell me about it - we've got to have a sleep over tomorrow night - can't wait!

 

[oddsocks]

Hi Dave

No biscuits on the lippings - the glue joint is strong enough on its own.

Do you mean 30 mins (rather than 3) dry time for the Ronseal stuff? I had a look at that a while back, and thought that 30 mins open time was too long to allow "stuff" to settle on the finish.

Cheers

Karl

yes - I've gone back and edited it to 30mins. I did my coating in the dining room so nice and warm and no dust settled at all. It was actually touch dry in about 15mins. After two coats I denibbed (being water based it raised the grain) with 240grit abranet (used my new pad and hose and it is excellent - far quicker than any power sander I have). I then applied a 3rd coat and tomorrow will cut back with grey webrax fitted to the abranet pad.


I did do a test piece with ronseal, cellulose sealer, melamine and pale french polish and the ronseal finish (each after two coats and then grey webraxed) was the lightest and most even.

I chose to use biscuits on my lipping and they were 20mm deep as they will be taking door hinges. On the remaining ones which are just shelves I'll try your method and the router jig for trimming.

Dave

 

[BradNaylor]

Nice lipping technique, Karl; just like mine! :lol:

Nice trick with the router, Karl; just like mine! :lol:

Nice trailer tent, Karl; JUST LIKE MINE!! :shock:


:lol:

 

[Petiegolfer]

Karl

Yikes when you buy trailer tents do they come with children?? Do you have to have them or are they an option?? :shock:

Having three I would hate to buy a trailer tent and end up with four more!!

Piers

 

[matt]

How you supposed to get soaked putting up a trailer tent? Surely it's supposed to take you about half a day like my tent does?

Petiegolfer - trailer tents don't come with kids. It's like losing coins down the back of the sofa. You wonder where they've been since the last holiday and always find them in the last place you look.

Lipping... I find a shortage of clamps the problem with lipping. I've started using a scrap length of wood thin enough to flex whilst still applying some decent pressure. Place a small block of wood against the lipping (once positioned on the MDF etc) and then the length of scrap timber, then clamp the scrap timber down to the lipping either side of the block. Effectively you get three clamping points using just two clamps. You can repeat this along the length using approximately 50% of the clamps.

 

[Karl]

Karl

Yikes when you buy trailer tents do they come with children?? Do you have to have them or are they an option?? :shock:

Having three I would hate to buy a trailer tent and end up with four more!!

Piers

Children optional, but once they're here, they're here to stay :lol:

 

[Karl]

Got my 6mm grooving cutter for the spindle moulder, and had an hour to spare this afternoon so decided to get the grooves cut in all the top, bottom and side panels to receive the back panels.

I've never used a spindle moulder before this year and I took advantage of Brad's offer to show me some basic usage. I also bought a DVD from Axminster, which was very instructional, but made me laugh as the presenter was an old timer (and the DVD was made in 1989!) and he kept on referring to the "Cockpit Drill" of the safety checks to go through before pressing start on the machine. It was funny, but it stuck with me.

Anyway, the grooving cutter was installed and the spindle set at the correct height. I then attached a couple of MDF fences to the ali fences, and the attached a sacrificial piece of 6mm MDF.

The fence locking mechanisms are then released and the machine started up. The whole fence arrangement is then slid back onto the rotating blade. The cutter cuts through the sacrificial fence and the machine turned off when the correct cutting depth is achieved - in this case 6mm.

All the panels were then run over the blade, resulting in a nice clean groove and a tight fitting panel.

Tomorrow i'm going to size up all back panels and start on the finishing.

Another hour today brings total project time to date to 14 hours.

Cheers

Karl

 

[OPJ]

GI also bought a DVD from Axminster, which was very instructional, but made me laugh as the presenter was an old timer (and the DVD was made in 1989!) and he kept on referring to the "Cockpit Drill" of the safety checks to go through before pressing start on the machine. It was funny, but it stuck with me.

That sounds like good old Roy Sutton! I bought that same disc just over three-years ago and know exactly what you mean!

 

[trousers]

Yes it's a good video imo for starters to the spindle.

I reckon he talks a lot of sense as well - he's still got all his digits even if his eyesight is obviously less than 20/20 :lol:

 

[Karl]

he's still got all his digits even if his eyesight is obviously less than 20/20 :lol:

Not quite - he's missing half a finger on his left hand!

Cheers

Karl

 

[trousers]

Sorry chaps - I've watched it a few times and never noticed that!
It's me who's vision is less than 20/20 obviously :roll:

 

[Karl]

Forgot to post a picture of the cutter guarding. It is a guard I use for the t/s when using an unguarded blade, and is simply clamped to the table. The normal guarding cannot be used as the boards are too large.

Cheers

Karl

 

[wizer]

I do like the look of a spindle moulder. Very tempting. But I'm guessing I wouldn't get enough use out of it to make it viable.

I like the guard. Similar SM's

 

[Karl]

Tom - I got the idea from watching Steve M's DVD. I did mean to acknowledge that in my post about the guard.

I've not had it long, but I reckon the spindle moulder is one of those tools which (in a hobby shop) wouldn't get used all the time, but when it is used, you will wonder how you did without it. These grooves are a prime example. Course, you could cut them with a router, but there is much more mess and noise.

Cheers

Karl