I got another fill in job yesterday for a gate. I must be getting good at these as this one only took me an afternoon to complete.
I shall be fitting it next week along with hanging two doors.
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Phil wrote:Alan looks good. Your speed and quality of work is impressive.
I would spend a week thinkng about it, 6 weeks planning and six months building
Cheers
Phil
Phil wrote:Alan looks good. Your speed and quality of work is impressive.
I would spend a week thinkng about it, 6 weeks planning and six months building
Cheers
Phil
TrimTheKing wrote:Phil wrote:Alan looks good. Your speed and quality of work is impressive.
I would spend a week thinkng about it, 6 weeks planning and six months building
Cheers
Phil
A man after my own heart!
Cheers
Mark
Robert wrote:Hopefully he will see this and reply.
You may have missed this though - viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1893&p=24192#p24192 so the reply may not be immediate if at all.
It would be nice to hear how he is getting on.
meccarroll wrote:mailee I know this is an old post but you may still pick up this question:
I know your framed gate is relatively straightforward but how do you manage to make a framed gate like this in an afternoon????
I'm only guessing but time wise I'd probably take at least 1/2 hour marking out, 1/2 hour sanding and cleaning, 1/2 hour clamping together, 1/2 hour on mortices, 1/2 hour on tenons, 1 hour fitting the boards, 2 hours machining the timber for framing, 1/2 hour on the spindle for groove to fit boards in. 6 hours in total at least. And that's if everything went well. In reality I'd be lucky to make this in a day.
I just don't know how you do it
Tusses wrote:meccarroll wrote:mailee I know this is an old post but you may still pick up this question:
I know your framed gate is relatively straightforward but how do you manage to make a framed gate like this in an afternoon????
I'm only guessing but time wise I'd probably take at least 1/2 hour marking out, 1/2 hour sanding and cleaning, 1/2 hour clamping together, 1/2 hour on mortices, 1/2 hour on tenons, 1 hour fitting the boards, 2 hours machining the timber for framing, 1/2 hour on the spindle for groove to fit boards in. 6 hours in total at least. And that's if everything went well. In reality I'd be lucky to make this in a day.
I just don't know how you do it
when you do them every other day .. your times are way off !
I'd "raise" your 1/2 hrs to 10 mins ..
Machining? .. bought in at size .. it's just a gate !
I reckon this table took me a day tops (a one off) .. without drying times
RogerS wrote:I agree, Mark, but I think that Tusses point was that it was only a gate and so buying in ready prepared timber is quicker since it doesn't matter if there are small variations in dimension.
meccarroll wrote:.....
Maybe I should change my way of doing things.
Mark
RogerS wrote:meccarroll wrote:.....
Maybe I should change my way of doing things.
Mark
I think it depends on what ones' making and ones own philosophy. If I was churning out the same thing day-in-day-out I think I would go the pre-machined route and design the end-product around what was available. Otherwise it would do my head in sending stuff through the thicknesser for ever and a day. Or hand-planing it if you're Woodbloke
If you're making a one-off then there is much more satisfaction in getting it 'just right', proportions etc.
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