Side Gates

[John15]

Thanks for the formula Student but that's double dutch to me - I'm afraid I'm in the piece of string and a nail camp with Rodders.

I'm afraid I didn't think of sloping the tops of the rails. I guess I could still do it, maybe with a block plane for most of the length and a chisel for the ends.

John

 

[blackrodd]

Thanks for the formula Student but that's double dutch to me - I'm afraid I'm in the piece of string and a nail camp with Rodders.

I'm afraid I didn't think of sloping the tops of the rails. I guess I could still do it, maybe with a block plane for most of the length and a chisel for the ends.

John

I'm sad to say I can't remember much of these formula's now, taught as an apprentice, never had occasion to use and remember many.
You could run the router round with a larger bevel/chamfer cutter.
To be honest, as long as you keep the preserver of you're choice well "toshed" in the gate, it will probably outlast most of us 'specially in its its fairly sheltered location.
Forgot to say nice job and as said many times better than the kits for sale!
Regards Rodders

 

[biskit]

Good looking gate John15 I never had any luck stopping gates swelling. Oak was one of the worst. Hope yours stays as is.

 

[Paddy Roxburgh]

IME Lots of cats=very few rodents. Cats are also very reassuring company for many people my daughter would be so devastated if you hurt our cat, me too
Paddy

 

[Billy Flitch]

John I went in the shop and marked this up thought it might help some one, mark out the width of the radius and the rise at the middle. Set a nail at each point get two batons rest them against the nails and fasten them together at the middle, take the middle nail away move the batons over to one side place a pen or pencil in the v formed by< the batons and then just m,ove it over to the other side , finished. put some pics in so it can be understood.

 

[John15]

That's a good method Billy - one I'll file away until needed. Could be better than the nail and piece of string I used.

John

 

[mseries]

I would have bent a baton to the curve i wanted and simply drawn along it to create a template. Even though I normally like regular shapes and symmetry there is something pleasing about the organic nature of the shape produced by a bent baton. I did a bed head this way years ago

 

[Phill joiner]

John I went in the shop and marked this up thought it might help some one, mark out the width of the radius and the rise at the middle. Set a nail at each point get two batons rest them against the nails and fasten them together at the middle, take the middle nail away move the batons over to one side place a pen or pencil in the v formed by< the batons and then just m,ove it over to the other side , finished. put some pics in so it can be understood.

Well you learn something new everyday =D>

 

[Wizard9999]

John I went in the shop and marked this up thought it might help some one, mark out the width of the radius and the rise at the middle. Set a nail at each point get two batons rest them against the nails and fasten them together at the middle, take the middle nail away move the batons over to one side place a pen or pencil in the v formed by< the batons and then just m,ove it over to the other side , finished. put some pics in so it can be understood.

Well you learn something new everyday =D>

+1 Very neat and clever.

 

[custard]

John I went in the shop and marked this up thought it might help some one, mark out the width of the radius and the rise at the middle. Set a nail at each point get two batons rest them against the nails and fasten them together at the middle, take the middle nail away move the batons over to one side place a pen or pencil in the v formed by< the batons and then just m,ove it over to the other side , finished. put some pics in so it can be understood.

I use exactly the same principle but on a larger scale for making curved furniture templates that have to be an exact section of a circle. For example on a desk with a curved front you might want two or three laminated drawers and they all have to have exact but shallow curves. A bent baton wouldn't give you an exact section of a circle, and a trammel might have to be 15+ metres long to give you the radius you need.

Instead of nails I use two brass pins, instead of two batons I use a shallow triangle of skirting board or an MDF off cut, and instead of a pencil I use a router.

Armed with this precise template you can then start building up a thicker MDF template as a lamination jig. And from this you can then laminate your drawer fronts.

So it's a case of making a jig, to make a jig, to make a jig, which you then use to make the thing you wanted to make in the first place!

 

[Giff]

When I was young and living with my parents we had "open plan" gardens in our new houses. Our very friendly dog used to dig up and bring home our neighbour's newly planted trees thinking they were sticks to play with. My father used to take them back and the neighbour would re-plant them. I am sure it was very annoying for him but he did take it in good humour and all the neighbours lived in harmony without gates.!......I am going back a bit. G

 

[Benchwayze]

When you mentioned spikes and cats, I thought you had unwittingly missed out the word 'burglar' after cat! :mrgreen: