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Thread: A little odd but here goes
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30th January 2014, 05:48 PM #1New Member
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A little odd but here goes
I am in the process of building a doll's house but it is bigger than normal
the rooms are about one metre square
The question is I want to put down a Parquet floor made from lots of small pieces and I am having trouble getting all the pieces the exact same size
As you can imagine any error will just grow and grow
If anyone has an idea I will be grateful
My best efforts have been by planing strips ,gluing them together the slicing them off
this seems to sort out one dimension but getting the new strips all the same is beating me
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30th January 2014, 06:46 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Normally it would be easier to dress down a long length and then dock the shorts from that. assuming you already have a multitude of small pieces, it may make things easier if you build a dressing box. The box sides would be the required height and would be attached on edge to the base. The overall size of the box would be to suit your plane but tightly fit several pieces snugly. Once the box is loaded, dress down almost to the top edge of the box sides. Turn the pieces over and dress down to flush with the top edge of box. Make sure grain direction is the same for all the pieces when putting them in the box. Be careful not to plane the box sides.
Hope this helps.
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30th January 2014, 08:34 PM #3The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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30th January 2014, 09:26 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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I do miniature 'parquetry' quite often. What I do is use veneer, cutting it on a guilotine. I have a small jig that fits alongside the guilotine to give me perfectly repeatable cut-offs. Then I buld up the pattern on a piece of upside down contact paper. Then I glue it to plywood, in a press, overnight.
Obviously, once the job is finished the viewer cannot distinguish veneer from soild timber.
Just finished one with 600 squares each 3mm x 3mm, in 4 different timbers. its accurate to the millimetre across the whole thing, so its easily achievable.
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31st January 2014, 01:00 AM #5New Member
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31st January 2014, 10:16 AM #6GOLD MEMBER
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Pass the timber through your planer with a flat piece of backing board underneath (pref mdf because its guaranteed flat). You should be able to get down to 1mm thick easily that way - unless there is something badly wrong with your planer. I have done down to 0.6mm thick using non-splitty timbers (eg beech).
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