On 23/05/2020 22:09, David wrote:
On Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:04:01 UTC+1, wrote:
On Friday, 22 May 2020 15:15:48 UTC+1, David wrote:
On Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:14:53 UTC+1, Bazza wrote:

I'm looking to renovate a couple of garden benches by replacing the slats. These are wide benches so the standard kits of slats are not long enough.

I have some hardwood planks that are suitable but would need to have the edges rounded.

I can't believe nobody else has suggested it - Angle Grinder! In this case with a sanding disk. I find this combination a much-underrated woodworking tool, for outdoor woodwork at any rate.

Very useful, but entirely the wrong tool for rounding board edges. Unless you really don't give a dry brown thing how they look.


NT

I've had some very good results. But I quite understand if you don't want to try it.

I have used an AG with a flap disk for woodwork on a number of
occasions. They are quite good for shaping things when you need to
freehand some operations. A typical example might be on things like
chair legs, where you want a significant bevel on all the ends in
contact with the ground to prevent the wood being split away of the
chair (other other "legged" furniture gets dragged.

Can also be handy for sculpting things like chair seats. (there are some
special planing / carving disks available for the purpose, and the level
of control they give is surprisingly delicate)


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Cheers,

John.

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