On Aug 4, 11:46 pm, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
In article
,
Martin Hind wrote:

[2] As to machining joints in new cills, it occurs that it might be
easier to rout housing joint in cill for stiles before profiling the
cill. If this is true then rather than getting local timber yard to
supply cill ready profiled I'd need to do profiling myself last. So
how to
go about this? Would I manage with circular saw or is more machinery
needed here?

My local timber yard stocked sills damn near exactly right as a
replacement - in both hardwood and whitewood.

I'll check this out with AA Timber over here in E7. They certainly
had
some cills in the yard last time I looked otherwise are quite happy to
machine
to size.


I just cut the rebates for the stiles using my sliding compound mitre saw
after setting the depth stop to suit - then cleaned up with a chisel. But
you could as easily do it with a hand saw - I don't think a router is
necessary.

Thanks for the encouraging tip. It's mostly hand tools here, but can
lay my
hands on a mitre saw. Might save on the elbow grease.

Regards

Martin