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

In article
,
Martin Hind wrote:
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.

The one I'm referring to is a power circular saw of which there is a fair
choice at reasonable prices - but it's a large thing to store if you don't
need it for other things. I only used it because I already had it - a good
tenon saw would have done as well with some care.

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On Aug 5, 9:53 am, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article
,
Martin Hind wrote:

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.

The one I'm referring to is a power circular saw of which there is a fair
choice at reasonable prices - but it's a large thing to store if you don't
need it for other things. I only used it because I already had it - a good
tenon saw would have done as well with some care.

My mistake for abbreviating above. A friend recent bought a sliding
compound mitre saw which I can use if necessary.

On the previous rare occasions I've needed to produce proper joints I
did
so with hand tools. I always get half way through and start wishing I
had some
machinery to ease the effort and achieve better precision. Hence my
musings about a bandsaw. Perhaps I could improvise with the borrowed
sliding
saw and avoid splashing out for a bit of kit that won't see the light
of day
again once this project is done.