On Monday, 25 May 2020 12:36:15 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 25/05/2020 11:31, tabbypurr wrote:
On Monday, 25 May 2020 01:03:12 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 24/05/2020 14:26, tabbypurr wrote:
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.
You are not comparing like with like though. A 70's disc sander was
probably a backing pad stuck on the end of a B&D drill spinning at 2400
rpm.
An ungainly and difficult to use contraption, that is likely to snag and
twitch all over the place. Not to mention all the reaction forces are
all in the wrong directions.
A small AG is far more controllable, and more effective due to the much
higher surface speed.
agreed
Still its normally fun to watch claims that something can't be done be
interrupted by someone actually doing them... :-)
So here you go:
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/..._Woodwork_Test
who claimed it couldn't be done? No-one.
Well your phrases we
"but entirely the wrong tool for rounding board edges. Unless you really
don't give a dry brown thing how they look."
and
"I've enough experience of disc sanding & ags to
think the odds of that low"
Which I read as fairly strong discouragement.
yup. No-one said it was impossible.
I was just countering that
in not completely unskilled hands, the chances of successfully rounding
over the corners of some bench slats with an angle grinder were in fact
pretty damn good. It may not be the first choice of tool, but if its
what is to hand, then it will do a decent enough job.
sure, I don't disagree. But when an OP is asking how to round the edge/corner of wood it does not indicate that they are skilled. I've seen enough disc sanding by the unskilled to not recommend it myself.
Hint: you won't find many people using an AG as a finish sander.
Hint: Rounding over an edge is not a finish sanding operation. You would
do the finish sanding after. As mentioned elsewhere a foam sanding block
will tidy it up nicely.
Yes you can. But it's easier for an unskilled diyer to do it in one move, which is what would happen with the more usual ways, ie router or moulding plane.
NT