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How to cut 1cm off end of Ikea wooden blinds
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. |
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wrote in message oups.com... 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. |
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wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message . .. RedOnRed wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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? |
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"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message . .. RedOnRed wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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 -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:39:47 GMT, "The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote:
RedOnRed wrote: "The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message . .. RedOnRed wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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. Rick... (The other Rick) |
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"The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message .. . RedOnRed wrote: "The3rd Earl Of Derby" wrote in message . .. RedOnRed wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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 -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite But we're not talking about filing 1cm off a single block of wood, we're talking about taking off 1cm from a chunky compounded blind. So by the time it's bound together it's going to be more like 40cm x 1cm. |
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:39:47 GMT, "The3rd Earl Of Derby"
wrote: 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 It's a horrid job, though. Especially if one is not fond of sports. I found that my schoolmates who excelled on the football field were also pretty good at filing and fitting. They seemed to have a natural talent for judging distances. Me, I was hopeless, both at filing and at football. Perhaps it was the ones like me who needed to find an alternative way who were behind many inventions. Needs must, as they say! MM |
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How to cut 1cm off end of Ikea wooden blinds
Parcel tape tight and firmly held against bench hook or something
similar and cut with fine tenon or dovetail saw cheers Jacob |
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On 2 Dec 2005 08:30:24 -0800, wrote: Parcel tape tight and firmly held against bench hook or something similar and cut with fine tenon or dovetail saw cheers Jacob The finest cut that I personally have come across is one of those small "pull saws" takes a bit of getting used to, but boy does it cut fine... Rick... (The other Rick) Completely agree, and if the OP doesn't have one, then this is a good time to get one. Perfect for this job; Trade name = "Shark saw", or something?, can be found in Homebase / Screwfix, so not hard to come by. |
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Rick wrote:
The finest cut that I personally have come across is one of those small "pull saws" takes a bit of getting used to, but boy does it cut fine... That was exactly how I cut down a wooden slatted blind... taped it together, held it on a workbench and cut the end off with a small shark pullsaw. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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How to cut 1cm off end of Ikea wooden blinds
"Rob Morley" wrote in message t... In article .com, says... 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. Tape probably won't hold the slats together firmly enough - something like a drill vice is good if you pad the jaws with a bit of cardboard. I trimmed a blind. I pressed the ends of the slats together and bound them securely together, no gaps, using masking tape. Then I marked out the cut and chopped off the excess. Make sure there is plenty of tape inboard of the cut so the slats do not fly apart as you cut, but make sure there is tape also over the area to be cut to prevent the top and bottom slats from splintering when sawn. Finaly, I lacquered the ends using aerosol lacquer to prevent moisture ingress, as I feared the slats might twist if they weren't fully protected from moisture ingress. Care is needed to get a good finish, and a final sanding of the cut end before lacquering is advisable too o get a decent appearance. Andy. |
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