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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:39:47 GMT, "The3rd Earl Of Derby"
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I've bought a wooden blind from Ikea which is marginally too wide
at the bottom of the kitchen window as I forgot about the tiles
we'd fitted!

To trim it by approx 1cm on each side can I simply stick them
together using tape and cut using a hand saw?

Ikea have a gadget for trimming aluminium blinds but not wooden
which are about 1-2mm thick.


I did the same thing but used a jig saw which my brother in law had
used before me on the same thing. The results in both cases was
perfect. Not too sure about a hand saw though, unless you can saw
very straight and neat.

Huh! you could file a 1cm off.
--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite



But why when you can more easily saw it off?

When I done my engineering training I had to file a block of 2" steel to
1&6/8" square :-( ...Icm would be a doddle

Ha!, When I were a lad, in filing school, they gave me steel bar and some
files and told me to make
a straight edge. Accurate to within 1 thou ( that's 1 thou everywhere,
checked on a table with
engineering blue).

Gosh, those were the days.... took me ages.

It took me weeks to make my telescope mirror.
Accurate to 1/10th wavelength of light.
Thous are what wood butchers work to. ;-)