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Craig D Peltier
03-24-2007, 1:47 AM
but... I just finished two of these gates for my client.There 2x6 cedar with lap joints and dadoes.Over 50 of them.I wanted all the dadoes an lap joints to be exact depth so I used a router for all of them.I thought of doing the lap joints on the TS but.. i have a enough sawdust for a ho-down now..:)
The checker board design is cool.The chunkiness is also.Thats my rendition of a bird on the top.Client will paint welcome underneath it.

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josh bjork
03-24-2007, 9:35 AM
Wow! That was a lot of work!. I work where they put in fence but the gates are all just rectangular there. On the plus side, cedar is good mulch eh?
Craig D Peltier
03-24-2007, 11:47 AM
The garage was my giant cedar closet..
Wow! That was a lot of work!. I work where they put in fence but the gates are all just rectangular there. On the plus side, cedar is good mulch eh?
glenn bradley
03-24-2007, 11:48 AM
Very 'English Garden' and sturdy too. Nice work!
Craig D Peltier
03-24-2007, 12:40 PM
Any of you have any tricks for getting out pencil lines off your work? Besides sanding. Commercial lumber is a little bumpy so sanding it out is tuff with all the valleys.
John Wagner
03-24-2007, 5:11 PM
Craig,

Try a cloth with denatured alcohol. John Wagner
Craig D Peltier
03-24-2007, 8:05 PM
Thanks, im assuming denatured is something specific.I will look up.
Craig,

Try a cloth with denatured alcohol. John Wagner
Pete Brown
03-24-2007, 10:24 PM
Wow! That was a lot of work!. I work where they put in fence but the gates are all just rectangular there. On the plus side, cedar is good mulch eh?

Definitely a lot of work for him. It came out really nice.

Don't use Ceder mulch, though. It's really bad for the ground.

Pete
Neal Dooley
03-27-2007, 5:55 PM
Denatured alcohol is ethanol (the stuff in beer, wine, etc) mixed with a small amount of methanol (very bad...makes you go blind). They mix it up like that to avoid taxation as an alcoholic beverage and avoid regulation.

Someday I too will have a garage............someday.
glenn bradley
03-27-2007, 6:50 PM
Someone once told me about using these. I've tried others but these work great. I've got two or three of them lying around.
http://www.staples.com/sbd/img/cat/std/s0035341_std.jpg
"Michael Hinkel"
03-27-2007, 7:03 PM
Might sound silly but try a damp rag.