I have almost exhausted my first lot of timber, I now have a reasonable pile of odd shaped pieces of timber. So it was back to BBS timbers to get another couple of pieces.
For my first lot of timber I took it to a local cabinet maker and got royally ripped of getting him to put it through his jointer and give it all one good face. So this time I cut my first piece and had a go at flatting it with a power plane (see links page for you-tube video on how to do this). Guess what....it worked, and was extremely easy. Admittedly this particular pieces wasn't in too bad a state to start with, and I have yet to put it through the thicknesser to see what the final product looks like, but so far so good. I was surprised at how little I had to take off, thankfully I had the planer set for a very shallow depth.
So currently I am about 2/3rds of the way through the cutting out of frame pieces, and hope to start glueing shortly. Unfortunately I will be away for 3 of the next 4&1/2 weeks so not a lot is going to happen in the short term.
Decisions to make in the short term are
1. Stainless (316), Zinc plated or Galvanised bolts. I don't think plated bolts would be up to the task. Galv, well nothing wrong with them, just me being picky, so I am going to price up 316 stainless, and as long as its not a small fortune go that way.
2. Epoxy, now this ones a bit harder, we have a distributor for 'West' products, but they are real pricey, there are some locally made products, that look OK, and are about half the price, so I am going to go and see them tomorrow and get some more info. From a support persepctive West would be good as there are plenty of people on the forum who use the stuff, but have to stick within a budget of sorts.
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