On Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:17:39 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 24/05/2020 13:31, tabbypurr wrote:
On Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:09:44 UTC+1, David wrote:
On Saturday, 23 May 2020 09:04:01 UTC+1, tabby 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'm not the OP. Perhaps the OP could get a good result with an ag &
sanding disc, but I've enough experience of disc sanding & ags to
think the odds of that low.

As with any aggressive sander - light pressure and keep moving at a
constant speed. For bench slats I would expect to get plenty good enough
results with an AG if that was what I had to use.

For the op, who knows. Lots of not very experienced diyers took up the disc sander in the 70s, and the results were in most cases terrible. They are usable, but probably the hardest type of sander for the job.


NT