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26 January 2016 at 7:27 am #134204
Thanks for the encouragement. I replied on the blog -thanks for the comments BTW- but in case you missed it, I used Titebond. In Germany it is available from Dictum GmbH who have an english langiuage website under https://www.dictum.com/en/.
18 January 2016 at 7:04 pm #133993Thanks for the kind responses.
@nobby1967: I’ve worked with CNC machines as well, but I’m not convinced they will be around for that long: they use a lot of energy and space to do the job of one carpenter, so I can’t help feeling that as energy becomes expensive running and repairing the things will be more difficult. Aside from this the bigger companies are a bit like drug dealers: they make sure that once you have their machine you need their programme to run it, so you are stuck with them unleyy you are prepared to pay a lot of money for another company to supply our next generation machine.My impression during the apprenticeship is that ‘modern’ chipboard based furniture is part of a system which involves machines. The machines are designed to make a certain kind of furniture and the furniture evolved to suit the machines, but making solid wood furniture is very hard because machines aren’t made for that, so hand tools work faster and better.
@maxwheeler: I had the same experience in this project: I asked how to make the chamfer on the inset of the box, and my employer spent half an hour explaining how to use the table router, and how to set it, try a setting, alter it, etc. I realised that this would take the best part of the morning before I even managed to set it correctly, and got our my #4 plane and made the chamfer in half an hour. That annoyed my boss as well, which I can understand because it looked like I’d wasted his time, but I was using the information he gve me to make my decision…
@mattmcgrane: Thanks for the encourageent. I intend to. Funny thing is that most of the people I met in the machine based industry are stressed, don’t like their job, and would do something else if they could, whereas I’m now working in a creative workshop on a city farm making things with children and having a great time of it. I win…Oh, and I’m making the toolbox I wanted to make in the first place… details follow…
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