AWITW 284: Cautiously positive...
- petermillard
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
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Hi everyone. Had a bit of fun - briefly - in the workshop since Wednesday just trying to figure out how to attach a ‘honeycomb’ grid to my DIY light panel. I went through a few option, trying to drill through the corners, considering 3D printing a shape that would latch into the profile - before realising that I could just cut little L shapes from plywood, put a bolt through them and glue them on. Works great!
I talked briefly about the DIY light originally in AWITW 245 here:-
Other than that, this week has mostly been out of the workshop, though I did manage to get the Rutlands biscuit jointer out of the box and made a quick test joint, which I have to say worked very well. I dont Iactually ’have much experience with biscuit jointers - I went straight to the DOmino - but I'll try and get to play with this a little more this week; aside from the obvious ‘cheap tool construction’ though it’s lightweight and really easy to use and at £60, great value for anyone looking to start making boxes or joining bits of plywood or MDF together.
I received some drilling guides from Peter Sefton at woodworkers workshop - he offered these for me to show whilst taking a look at the the Festool one - and I may see if the UJK one is available, if anyone is interested in a comparison. I do wonder how many angled holes you'd need to be drilling to justify the ~£150-ish price tag though!
Anyway, that’s all for now. Thank too as always for your amazing support, enjoy the rest of the (Bank Holiday here) weekend, and I’ll see you in the midweek for a bit more chat.
Thanks all!
Peter
Direct link - https://youtu.be/sZbEhnQ6t2M
After my Elu biscuit jointer took an unscheduled plunge onto a concrete floor, I found that the blade and fence were no longer parallel. It was not enough to cause problems with "ordinary" jointing, but since I was working with faced material that could not be sanded flat, it was a problem.
My local tool shop, that I have more or less grown up with, was very helpful and let me try a couple of different jointers.
A simple check was to take two longish strips of material, cut a single slot in the middle and see if the ends matched. The first one, from a well known British brand, was a mile off. The second was spot on.
It…