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16th September 2014, 06:30 PM #1New Member
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Jointing Question (also urgent)
Hey guys, quick question from a noob school student. As the picture below shows, I built this desk horizontal desk hutch contraption thingooo. Anyway, before putting it together the bottom component bowed quite a bit. Then I put it together and due to some incorrect measurements the bottom has now got a cup in it around 5mm maximum in the centre, before tapering off on each end and sitting flat on each end. So, my question is. Is it possible and safe for me to run the entire project with the bottom face down over the jointer. Id be taking it very slowly in very small increments. Is it possible and safe? The sides are connected using lock mitre joints, where it mets the side panels. Thoughts? Or should I just line the bottom with black felt. Which i had a look at on the bottom and it to an extent hides it a bit.
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16th September 2014, 06:44 PM #2Taking a break
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Definitely possible and pretty safe. I'd recommend going from both ends and meeting in the middle so it doesn't blow out as the blades leave the cut.
Also, if your machine is wide enough, try and skew the box so that you don't enter the cut all at once. If you can't, hold on to it firmly as it'll probably try and kick back a bit.
If you have a shelix head on your jointer, then you can ignore everything above and just go for it. There will be some break out but, in my experience, it's pretty minimal.
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16th September 2014, 06:45 PM #3
I'd say that if you try to run that over a jointer, you are going to make a mess of the end. You will also reduce the thickness of the bottom and throw your corner mitres out.
If starting again isn't an option, you could build some kind of base for it to try and cover it up, or even make it look like you meant to have it bowed. Put feet on the bottom or something so that it sits above the top of the desk by a 10mm or so, which will make it less obvious.
Or turn it upside down if the bow on the top isn't so bad."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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16th September 2014, 07:02 PM #4New Member
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16th September 2014, 07:08 PM #5
I was thinking just some feet about 10mm or so thick. Like these:
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Put them set back from the front so that you can't really see them. They hold it up off the desk so that your 'design feature' is less obvious. Like what you're trying to do with the felt.
Personally, I think that if you try running it over a jointer it is just going to look like a cock up."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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17th September 2014, 12:29 AM #6
Put the little feet on it, and think of it like the trailer of a semi-trailer (they have a bow in them too, but theirs is deliberate) - it's there so that when loaded, it's straight. You could even say you were inspired by semi-trailers having that bow and gain credit for your keen powers of observation!!!
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17th September 2014, 01:29 AM #7regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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