How I cut solid beech to make a worktop, best saw blade

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @bradleymasson1777
    @bradleymasson1777 Год назад +1

    Thanks Robin. I'm glad I came across your video. I have the Makita track saw. I like it, but I think the Chinese made blade is its weak spot. The Freud looks like a good replacement.

  • @owenoneill5955
    @owenoneill5955 Год назад +3

    I cut two table tops recently using the 90 degree Festool track jig, parallel cut two long faces first. .nothing of a millimetre out over 1950mm on the diagonal, not too shabby, very impressed.

  • @carguillo1
    @carguillo1 Год назад +2

    Hi Robin love the live edge wood and bowl must visit some time and have beer
    so

  • @fardastevie2827
    @fardastevie2827 Год назад

    robin cant wait to see the cabinet and end result but i have an idea how its going to look ....fantastic !

  • @richarddicktaylor219
    @richarddicktaylor219 Год назад

    Robin I'm just reading How to Make Impossible Things by Mark Ellison, a New York based master carpenter. It's a very interesting read & after watching most of your videos I think you probably have many similar approaches to solving interesting building challenges.

    • @ukconstruction
      @ukconstruction  Год назад

      Sounds like a good read!! Will get it!! Cheers bro

  • @I_luv_my_fans
    @I_luv_my_fans Год назад

    The government should hire Robin to train young men in these vital skills!

  • @michaelhogwood104
    @michaelhogwood104 Год назад

    Fantastic Robin 👌.

  • @tonyharison2058
    @tonyharison2058 Год назад +1

    Nice job Robin, just been milling some beech, going to pre treat it off the mill so fingers crossed no woodworm while it dries.

  • @theofarmmanager267
    @theofarmmanager267 Год назад +9

    My strong advice to anyone thinking of using timber in a house would be to buy kiln dried and not air dried. I’ve been woodworking for over 45 years and learnt from experience that air dried timber will move for 6 months at least after it’s put into an interior. It will check (crack) at will and, if it’s put in a portion where it can’t expand as it would like, is quite capable of cracking plaster. Don’t ask me how I know this.
    The additional cost of kiln dried over air dried is fairly small compared to the probable pain of it going wrong. I’ve got no affiliation to either but, for kiln dried waney and square edge, I go to Surrey Timbers or English Woodland Timbers. Both south of the Thames but so am I.

    • @amiddled
      @amiddled 11 месяцев назад

      Depends on the species. In my experience air dried Ash is much more stable than kiln dried.

  • @jimmurphy4083
    @jimmurphy4083 Год назад

    Hi Robin, is there any update on the roofing square and the availability to purchase one from you. Love the channel . Thanks.

  • @josephfidler3716
    @josephfidler3716 Год назад +2

    Any update on the framing square? I've been waiting patiently for a few years now. Keep up the good work.

  • @Asgardsteve1
    @Asgardsteve1 Год назад

    I switched all my blades on the chop saw, mitre saws and track saws to Freud years ago, wouldn't use any others, unless of course a better one comes along lol.

  • @nickhaley4663
    @nickhaley4663 Год назад +1

    Something I've done with solid timber slabs like that is to inset steel bars into the underside to help keep them flat.
    Use something like a 15mm x 5mm flat bar, route out a suitable groove in the underside and set the bars in, on edge obviously, with an epoxy resin.
    I always do this on wide slabs like a breakfast bar, set them at maybe 400-500 mm apart.

    • @ukconstruction
      @ukconstruction  Год назад

      Nice touch!

    • @sally6457
      @sally6457 Год назад

      On thinner materials like wide hardwood window boards I always run a few grooves along the grain on the underside.
      I even tried it on a slightly cupped oak worktop, it worked really well, at the time I worried that it may split over time, 6 years later and still flat and no splits.

  • @paulzirker706
    @paulzirker706 Год назад +4

    Another great informative and educational video Robin. Looking forward to your 2nd fix series of this fit out. Great work

  • @videostarish
    @videostarish Год назад +4

    Nice vid once again Robin..👍
    I was a little worried about your new blade hitting any "rogue screws". What I did to my sacrificial tops of my joiner-sawhorses is, I fixed them through with only 8mm holes through everything, & countersunk top & bottom, & forced-in hotglue,so that it created a plastic rivet, so it doesn't matter if you cut through it, & just remove them when the time comes, with a heat-gun...👍🙂

  • @Geeraffe
    @Geeraffe Год назад +9

    That’s not a bowl - it’s a curling stone 😮 - looks bloody good but I have come to expect this from Robin 👍

  • @jonesconrad1
    @jonesconrad1 Год назад +1

    I did something similar, it was walnut ( wasn't live edge or anything ) but my comment is about the tap, I wall mounted it which worked well, just a thought Robin

  • @trickytricky100
    @trickytricky100 Год назад

    Love your knowledge on woodworking Robin thanks, can I ask please what size Hinge Centring Drill do you use as a all round go to.
    Thanks Rich

  • @michaelplays2449
    @michaelplays2449 Год назад

    Great video Robin !!! Thanks

  • @dwalsh3469
    @dwalsh3469 Год назад

    You can put the splinter guard on the ts55 down as well, particularly if not using such a fine blade. I’m sure you know this.

  • @andrewquinn7822
    @andrewquinn7822 Год назад

    Hi Robin from my time at Tech as an apprentice joiner I seem to remember the holes you are seeing are exit holes meaning the lava of the beetle had actually eaten their way out of the timber so the worms had actually already " left" ??? Great work as usual 👏

  • @sally6457
    @sally6457 Год назад

    Over the years ive tried most brands of saw blade, in my opinion Freud are the best, Bosch blades give similar results but at a much higher price.
    Freud also use good sized and strongly connected tungsten tips that can be sharpened multiple times.
    A budget saw with a Freud blade is capable of an extremely high quality finish.
    Cant wait to see the end result of this project. I hope one day you rent it out on air bnb or similar? 👍

  • @therealdojj
    @therealdojj Год назад +2

    Shades of Arnold at the start to Commando there 😁

    • @videostarish
      @videostarish Год назад +1

      Yea, nice one..!☺️ It would be funny/entertaining to see Robin getting 'tooled-up' as in Commando, then carrying a HUGE joist somewhere...👍☺️

  • @WombleUK
    @WombleUK Год назад

    It doesn't take much to overwork a Festool TS55 it's the most under powered saw I have ever owned.
    I have tried loads of blades over the years, I really don't rate the Festool blades they lose the edge really fast, stehl blades were ok, key blades didn't seem perfectly circular so gave up on them although the key blades kapex blade (now discontinued) was absolutely flawless. I used the cheap Lumberjack blades for ages & they were brilliant but supply was very sporadic. I have now settled on the Freud blades for nearly all my saws now & the 165mm are only £20 from Screwfix cut really nice & last well.

  • @Mikey__R
    @Mikey__R Год назад +1

    Hi Robin, does your sawmill not kiln dry their live edge boards? Or is it a problem with the thickness of the board, rather than the edge?

  • @BillyMustang101
    @BillyMustang101 Год назад

    I always use negative rake blades in my mitre saw, especially good crosscutting hardwoods

  • @martindorrance8133
    @martindorrance8133 Год назад

    Do you need to adjust the rail for a different blade?

  • @dougsaunders8109
    @dougsaunders8109 Год назад +1

    Nice to know the pro’s put there blades in the wrong away around too. I was cursing like a trooper about crap blade burning the cut, worked so much better correctly installed 😁
    What finish? Lots of water from the sink with water from your hands.

    • @WombleUK
      @WombleUK Год назад

      Carpenter & Joiner for 37yrs here & I still have a brain fart every now & then & put a blade in backwards, usually on my small cordless trim saw where the blade is on the left side of the saw 🤗

    • @dougsaunders8109
      @dougsaunders8109 Год назад

      @@WombleUK appreciate you honesty. Makes me a, mere DIYer feel so much better!

  • @barryford7135
    @barryford7135 Год назад

    Tut tut Robin, does your wife know you leave the toilet seat up? 🤔🤣

  • @martindorrance8133
    @martindorrance8133 Год назад

    Fred Flintstone would have approved of the bowl 😂.

  • @troyboy4345
    @troyboy4345 Год назад

    All the fashion atm, those "Live Edge" things

  • @khansk36
    @khansk36 Год назад

    Try and integrate an over flow i flooded a glass sink in customers house with no over flow took me a while to clean up lucky no water went down

  • @Kiss4cooper
    @Kiss4cooper Год назад +1

    Robin, silly question, how do track saw tracks work? Do they not move out of place simply by surface tension? Edit: just got further in video and saw you clamping as well.

    • @db7948
      @db7948 Год назад +4

      Exactly that and the have a non slip rubber material underneath

    • @Kiss4cooper
      @Kiss4cooper Год назад +1

      @@db7948thanks

  • @thetessellater9163
    @thetessellater9163 Год назад

    The woodworm holes only show its HAD woodworm - matured beetles have chewed their way out !
    If no further new eggs were laid over the last three or four years, then it would no longer have any larvae chewing away inside ( the 'worm' ).

    • @ukconstruction
      @ukconstruction  Год назад

      Nice information bro, many thanks for your valuable comments!! Its a real mystery when it comes to wood worm!!

    • @stephenjervis4426
      @stephenjervis4426 Год назад

      Woodworm or beetle prefer timber with higher moisture content, above 20% is the danger zone though I believe they can survive down to about 12%. Nevertheless if the timber is dry one shouldn't need to worry about old sign. If that slab has been 'air dried' for 6 months (cut & stickered outdoors abeit under cover) I'd expect the moisture content in that slab is likely over 30% (particularly since it's spalted). Rule of thumb is a year per inch of thickness to get down to below 30%, aiming to get to low twenties. For interior work you want to be down to 10% or preferably into single digits, meaning air dried stock needs lots of time once brought indoors to acclimatise, and will move during that time... Ideally that goes for kiln-dried stock too (they may get it down to 10% during the drying process, but then the longer it sits in an unheated, humid warehouse the wetter it'll end up). Long story short that slab is way short of where it ought to be. Need to fit sills & the like quicker, quarter-sawn stock is the best, it'll still shrink but it you greatly reduce the change it'll twist or cup.

  • @richardstevenson2727
    @richardstevenson2727 Год назад

    👍

  • @garywheeley5108
    @garywheeley5108 Год назад

    Undercut the rip cut maybe ?🤔

  • @locien182
    @locien182 Год назад

    thing is if someone is spending this much on an extension/addition to a house, spending 150 plus labour on this top for the bathroom is nothing. It's more about the bespoke finish that counts as its not "run of the mill" and will be a talking point when people come over etc this is where the value comes into play, ya never see high-end people fitting a b&q bathroom and when people are round showing them the "new bathroom"

  • @TheSudsy
    @TheSudsy Год назад +1

    I hope the chief executive decision maker and final approver has signed this off...... we all know who she is lol

  • @Shane_O
    @Shane_O Год назад

    I’ve done a good few of theses and either kept them indoors (for a few years) or had them kiln dried (relatively easy DIY to do) if they are anyway wet the you can have issues with movement in the piece so check for moisture content on large pieces (circa 12%) well before install. Check out Manor woodwork RUclips channel…. I’ve learnt so much form him and continue to do so

  • @straylightc4b
    @straylightc4b Год назад

    The leavings of a curling stone make a very poor sink, tap in the way and prone to staining. Bathrooms should not be designed by people that cannot drive a razor blade. Great otherwise.

  • @debandmike3380
    @debandmike3380 Год назад

    all that meticulousness and then you have a snaggy hose

  • @MarkUKInsects
    @MarkUKInsects Год назад +2

    Am I seeing correct? Robin without hearing protection?