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Desk Shelves.
awemawson:
Simon, don't let me dissuade you, but I've never been very impressed with the iron on stuff - particularly on curved edges. Tends to lift at the slightest provocation.
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: awemawson on October 24, 2014, 09:36:55 AM ---Simon, don't let me dissuade you, but I've never been very impressed with the iron on stuff - particularly on curved edges. Tends to lift at the slightest provocation.
--- End quote ---
Yeah I hear alot of mixed stuff from people using iron on edgebanding. I'm also not so sure how i'm going to iron it down onto curved sections (maybe heat up a bit of bar with a blowtorch). But I feel i'll have to try it out myself to see how it goes, for better or worse.
awemawson:
Hot air gun works if applied carefully - too much heat and the plastic melts
S. Heslop:
Waiting for the edgebanding to be delivered on Tuesday. Not much to do in the meantime but make this drill guide for dowels.
The jig.
Test Joint.
The first attempt was off by a few millimeters, which was really surprising. Re-drilled the holes for the ferrules on the other side, this time with a fence on the drill press. It gave a better result, but it's still off by about maybe quarter a millimeter, but it's close enough for wood.
I also measured and found out that the 12mm plywood was more about 11.2mm thick, so i'll have to adjust for that and the thickness of the edgebanding. I'm really not so good with wood, and i'm always impressed by people who can just slap furniture together in a few days like it was nothing.
chipenter:
The trick with edgebanding is to remove the dust from the ply first , or to seal the end grain .
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