Loving these videos mate - I know it must take you ages to edit and upload them , but please keep going - your work and attention to detail is spot on ...
@rjjoiner1 ha ha, yeah some do take an absolute age but only as I really try to condense them! (Believe it or not!) It’s a real honour for you to have said that mate, I just checked out your videos! I thought the newel cap one was interesting as I had to do something similar this year and did a similar process. Thanks so much for the continued support. Cheers Matt
Thanks very much mate - I enjoy working out how to make things like the newel cap instead of buying them - once you've got the jigs and you know it works , it's an easy process to repeat isn't it ? ( + I'm a Yorkshire man ...) 😅 Cheers
I could tell! Yeah sometimes you can make a jig in minutes and it will save your hours and hours of prep plus the results will Obviously be consistent! Other times the jig takes you hours but it always pays off. As long as you don’t lose them!
Hi Matt, just came across your channel and credit to you for taking the time and the effort to do footage, edit and upload the content on a regular basis and still find time to run your business good on you. Couple of things I'll comment on though, Have you thought about having the fences on your spindle skimmed by an engineering company to true them up I recently had the fence on my Sedgwick LK Skimmed as it had become hollow and worn, through use but good as new now. Alternatively use a false fence all the way across the front if the fences aren't off set its safer and you will achieve better extraction in my view, certainly on my spindle I do. Regards the tongue and groove boards in you doors if its a painted finish product have you considered Tri-coya I tend to use it mainly these days on painted products, I just apply the v-groove effect with the guide rail and router with no issues with expansion and contraction and lasts 50-60 yrs externally its a great product. On my bottom rails I tend to drill 6 mm drainage holes through to allow any excess moisture to escape but I ensure that the hole is on the external side of the weather bar if fitted but I tend to use the aluminum type thresholds these days from Coastal so it doesn't really matter where the hole is located. On door frames I Mortise and tenoned them together but do have the luxury of a mortiser and tenoner, you can pick up decent mortisers for not a lot these days along with a decent bandsaw that you could use to cut your tenons with the panel saw to cut your shoulders rather than going to the cost of a tenoner. I used to have a Startrite 352 bandsaw and that was a great machine for its size, it was probably better than the SCM One that I have now. Dominos on external doors, unfortunately I'm not a great fan of this type of construction for an external doors I have to admit, I don't think that you can beat a good old fashioned through wedged mortise and tenon joint I just feel that the doors (even though you are intending to fit a brace) could fall out of square easier hence breaking the shoulder and allowing water ingress. But that's just my thoughts ! I do have a DF500 and do like them and think that they are an invaluable addition to the workshop environment. All the best though and keep up the good work.
Wow that was a lot, thank you so much! Funny enough I have a firm lined up to reskim my planer beds but hadn’t thought of the fence. Tbh it was a last minute decision to address them as it was playing up. It’s now running smoother than ever tho so glad I decided to spend time maintaining it! I do have a drop over fence if you like which acts as a good jig for certain operations too! I was relying on that for a straight pass through but it’s not the most user friendly for every operation! I am actually really please with the results so far and the dust extraction has been modified at the back and I also have an additional feather board/ fence which keeps it all in the hood! I have used acoya in the past but not the tricoya. A rep showed me it once I think! Is it the waste from acoya turned into mdf? Tbh it’s not common for me to do this sort of work so I just went with what I get from my timber suppliers! Tricoya really Interests me tho! I hear you on the frames, I sold my salida morticer this year as it just never got used! It’s in some of the videos! As is my record bandsaw but I don’t have it permanently set up! There is a bigger plan for all of that but there is also potential to expand outside of the area I am in so it’s kinda just comes out as and when at the moment! It’s probably my biggest struggle as I want to keep working and have always been part of bigger workshops with multiple machines but funding your own, working and a young family has its compromises! Then I started filming it🙈. I hear you on the domino and tbh I just really wanted it for a couple of jobs coming up and without the morticer it just seemed like a no brainer. I can see how it would appear weaker as it doesn’t have the mechanical strength if you like but it also doesn’t draw moisture in through the exposed tenon! Also inthink if you get the sizing right and don’t do a loose mortice it’s very strong but I would say that😂 also it’s not as tried and tested so I know you can always stand by your method👍🏻I have to say they have definitely improved on the 500 with this machine alltho I do still love the 500! I think there were some copy right issues with the 500 which affected its use ability! But the 700 seems to have fixed those! In my last video on Thursday I show a little tip I just learnt about my 500! I would be interested to see if you knew it! It didn’t affect every domino but it did mine! Anyway, thanks so much for taking the time to watch, hopefully I can keep improving with the videos but it is a chanllange. I have an oak porch to do soon which is all traditional joinery with tenons and legs so hoping to get a good video out of that! Thanks again Matt👍🏻🙌
Just went over there. I was thinking of someone else. I used to love his stuff, great tip on how to hold the ts55 and hose. Thanks for reintroducing me🙌
Hi Matt, I recently discovered your channel and must say I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. You are without a doubt a 'proper' old school chippie who knows his stuff mate. I have made plenty of tgv boarded doors over the years and never had a callback on them . My method was to have a thinner middle and bottom rail with bare faced tennons and let the tgv fly over them so any water ran straight off the door. More than one way to make these doors, I used to lay the boards into a 3/4 " rebate which saved a lot of work, a couple of dabs of glue and a bit of secret nailing made the making of a door and frame a 2 day job which was good value for the customer. Keep the vids coming Matt, very few like you posting on RUclips.
Hi @anychance5498 thanks so much for your comment, very kind of you to say! Yes every one I have done before has had the boards fly over the mid and bottom rail! This door is going next to a series of other external doors that have a bottom rail on show and no mid rails! It’s a weird detail for the water run off for sure and glad you spotted it!. I am going to fit a diagonal as there is no chance that door will last without one and I am confident the water run off will be fine on the bottom rail(glad I changed it!) Thanks so much for watching🙏 Cheers Matt 👍🏻
Hi mat . Doors looking fantastic mate. The big Festool box near the spindle moulder . What is in there. Can not stand not knowing anymore lol sorry for being a noisy ba-ted lol
Ha ha. You will be disappointed! There is two big double systainers both on wheels which I stack different systainers on depending on what I am doing. One has clamps and assembly bits and bobs in for when I am making carcasses and the other as tapes, glues and sandpapers…. Hopefully this year I am going to redesign a whole wall when I do the log burner but until then I have been keeping bits and bobs on wheels. They are very handy boxes and sometimes on offer as not very popular! Thanks for the continued support Paul Cheers Matt👍🏻
Yes Paul you should do it. Your stuff on instagram looks 👍🏻. Sometimes it’s a stressful space and the changes you want to make are never ending but it’s fantastic for hiding from customers😂
Hi @kevocos great question! I don’t enjoy the actual cut from the panel saw as sometimes it can be problematic but I do enjoy the setup of the sliding table and beds, feeding it through etc. that question has helped me with something I have been thinking for a while! Possibly Getting rid of my mitre saw and build a bandsaw station there so it’s always set up and ready to go! Thanks for watching, Matt 👍🏻
I kept thinking get a big Domino- then you did……. I keep threatening to get one but can’t justify it as only a small workshop so I get a joinery company to make most front doors- quicker than getting the mortice machine out - but I will one day 😂😂 Dislike the new systainers too it’s a battle to get the bloody handle up !!!!!!!!
Hi Stuart, yeah a bit of a no brainer on this project. There was enough to go at to pretty much cover the cost of 1/2 the machine. I haven’t often wanted that machine but if it’s anything like the smaller one i will find lots of uses for it!! One thing I will do going forward tho is make my own dominos as man they are expensive! I made a load of 8mm sapele dominos a couple of years ago and it honestly was pretty quick. The bigger they are the easier I would say! Yeah the handle Up and the fact it gets in the way of the t loc on the smallest sys! Can not believe that got signed off! Cheers for watching! Was along one 😂 Matt 👍🏻
Thumbnail 😂. Love it Matt keep smashing it pal
Thanks mate, hours of recording to get that!😂
Cheers Matt👍🏻
Loving these videos mate - I know it must take you ages to edit and upload them , but please keep going - your work and attention to detail is spot on ...
@rjjoiner1 ha ha, yeah some do take an absolute age but only as I really try to condense them! (Believe it or not!)
It’s a real honour for you to have said that mate, I just checked out your videos! I thought the newel cap one was interesting as I had to do something similar this year and did a similar process.
Thanks so much for the continued support.
Cheers Matt
Thanks very much mate - I enjoy working out how to make things like the newel cap instead of buying them - once you've got the jigs and you know it works , it's an easy process to repeat isn't it ? ( + I'm a Yorkshire man ...) 😅
Cheers
I could tell! Yeah sometimes you can make a jig in minutes and it will save your hours and hours of prep plus the results will
Obviously be consistent! Other times the jig takes you hours but it always pays off. As long as you don’t lose them!
Hi Matt, just came across your channel and credit to you for taking the time and the effort to do footage, edit and upload the content on a regular basis and still find time to run your business good on you.
Couple of things I'll comment on though, Have you thought about having the fences on your spindle skimmed by an engineering company to true them up I recently had the fence on my Sedgwick LK Skimmed as it had become hollow and worn, through use but good as new now.
Alternatively use a false fence all the way across the front if the fences aren't off set its safer and you will achieve better extraction in my view, certainly on my spindle I do.
Regards the tongue and groove boards in you doors if its a painted finish product have you considered Tri-coya I tend to use it mainly these days on painted products, I just apply the v-groove effect with the guide rail and router with no issues with expansion and contraction and lasts 50-60 yrs externally its a great product.
On my bottom rails I tend to drill 6 mm drainage holes through to allow any excess moisture to escape but I ensure that the hole is on the external side of the weather bar if fitted but I tend to use the aluminum type thresholds these days from Coastal so it doesn't really matter where the hole is located.
On door frames I Mortise and tenoned them together but do have the luxury of a mortiser and tenoner, you can pick up decent mortisers for not a lot these days along with a decent bandsaw that you could use to cut your tenons with the panel saw to cut your shoulders rather than going to the cost of a tenoner.
I used to have a Startrite 352 bandsaw and that was a great machine for its size, it was probably better than the SCM One that I have now.
Dominos on external doors, unfortunately I'm not a great fan of this type of construction for an external doors I have to admit, I don't think that you can beat a good old fashioned through wedged mortise and tenon joint I just feel that the doors (even though you are intending to fit a brace) could fall out of square easier hence breaking the shoulder and allowing water ingress.
But that's just my thoughts ! I do have a DF500 and do like them and think that they are an invaluable addition to the workshop environment.
All the best though and keep up the good work.
Wow that was a lot, thank you so much! Funny enough I have a firm lined up to reskim my planer beds but hadn’t thought of the fence. Tbh it was a last minute decision to address them as it was playing up. It’s now running smoother than ever tho so glad I decided to spend time maintaining it! I do have a drop over fence if you like which acts as a good jig for certain operations too! I was relying on that for a straight pass through but it’s not the most user friendly for every operation! I am actually really please with the results so far and the dust extraction has been modified at the back and I also have an additional feather board/ fence which keeps it all in the hood!
I have used acoya in the past but not the tricoya. A rep showed me it once I think! Is it the waste from acoya turned into mdf? Tbh it’s not common for me to do this sort of work so I just went with what I get from my timber suppliers! Tricoya really Interests me tho!
I hear you on the frames, I sold my salida morticer this year as it just never got used! It’s in some of the videos! As is my record bandsaw but I don’t have it permanently set up! There is a bigger plan for all of that but there is also potential to expand outside of the area I am in so it’s kinda just comes out as and when at the moment! It’s probably my biggest struggle as I want to keep working and have always been part of bigger workshops with multiple machines but funding your own, working and a young family has its compromises! Then I started filming it🙈.
I hear you on the domino and tbh I just really wanted it for a couple of jobs coming up and without the morticer it just seemed like a no brainer. I can see how it would appear weaker as it doesn’t have the mechanical strength if you like but it also doesn’t draw moisture in through the exposed tenon! Also inthink if you get the sizing right and don’t do a loose mortice it’s very strong but I would say that😂 also it’s not as tried and tested so I know you can always stand by your method👍🏻I have to say they have definitely improved on the 500 with this machine alltho I do still love the 500! I think there were some copy right issues with the 500 which affected its use ability! But the 700 seems to have fixed those!
In my last video on Thursday I show a little tip I just learnt about my 500! I would be interested to see if you knew it! It didn’t affect every domino but it did mine!
Anyway, thanks so much for taking the time to watch, hopefully I can keep improving with the videos but it is a chanllange. I have an oak porch to do soon which is all traditional joinery with tenons and legs so hoping to get a good video out of that!
Thanks again Matt👍🏻🙌
Hi Matt, SedgeTool just did a video on systainer handles and spraying them to make it easier to use.
Hi Tom, I have heard of sedgetool but never checked it out! I will nip over there now! Thanks for the tip!
Cheers for watching, Matt👍🏻
Just went over there. I was thinking of someone else. I used to love his stuff, great tip on how to hold the ts55 and hose.
Thanks for reintroducing me🙌
Hi Matt, I recently discovered your channel and must say I've enjoyed what I've seen so far. You are without a doubt a 'proper' old school chippie who knows his stuff mate. I have made plenty of tgv boarded doors over the years and never had a callback on them . My method was to have a thinner middle and bottom rail with bare faced tennons and let the tgv fly over them so any water ran straight off the door. More than one way to make these doors, I used to lay the boards into a 3/4 " rebate which saved a lot of work, a couple of dabs of glue and a bit of secret nailing made the making of a door and frame a 2 day job which was good value for the customer. Keep the vids coming Matt, very few like you posting on RUclips.
Hi @anychance5498 thanks so much for your comment, very kind of you to say!
Yes every one I have done before has had the boards fly over the mid and bottom rail! This door is going next to a series of other external doors that have a bottom rail on show and no mid rails! It’s a weird detail for the water run off for sure and glad you spotted it!. I am going to fit a diagonal as there is no chance that door will last without one and I am confident the water run off will be fine on the bottom rail(glad I changed it!)
Thanks so much for watching🙏
Cheers Matt 👍🏻
Hi mat . Doors looking fantastic mate. The big Festool box near the spindle moulder . What is in there. Can not stand not knowing anymore lol sorry for being a noisy ba-ted lol
Ha ha. You will be disappointed! There is two big double systainers both on wheels which I stack different systainers on depending on what I am doing. One has clamps and assembly bits and bobs in for when I am making carcasses and the other as tapes, glues and sandpapers…. Hopefully this year I am going to redesign a whole wall when I do the log burner but until then I have been keeping bits and bobs on wheels. They are very handy boxes and sometimes on offer as not very popular!
Thanks for the continued support Paul
Cheers Matt👍🏻
Loving the channel mat. Trying and hoping to have my own joinery shop soon. Trying lol
Yes Paul you should do it. Your stuff on instagram looks 👍🏻. Sometimes it’s a stressful space and the changes you want to make are never ending but it’s fantastic for hiding from customers😂
Great upload, thanks for sharing it.
Interesting that you do all the ripping on the panel saw, do you prefer that to ripping on the bandsaw?
Hi @kevocos great question! I don’t enjoy the actual cut from the panel saw as sometimes it can be problematic but I do enjoy the setup of the sliding table and beds, feeding it through etc. that question has helped me with something I have been thinking for a while! Possibly Getting rid of my mitre saw and build a bandsaw station there so it’s always set up and ready to go!
Thanks for watching, Matt 👍🏻
I kept thinking get a big Domino- then you did……. I keep threatening to get one but can’t justify it as only a small workshop so I get a joinery company to make most front doors- quicker than getting the mortice machine out - but I will one day 😂😂
Dislike the new systainers too it’s a battle to get the bloody handle up !!!!!!!!
Hi Stuart, yeah a bit of a no brainer on this project. There was enough to go at to pretty much cover the cost of 1/2 the machine. I haven’t often wanted that machine but if it’s anything like the smaller one i will find lots of uses for it!! One thing I will do going forward tho is make my own dominos as man they are expensive! I made a load of 8mm sapele dominos a couple of years ago and it honestly was pretty quick. The bigger they are the easier I would say! Yeah the handle
Up and the fact it gets in the way of the t loc on the smallest sys! Can not believe that got signed off!
Cheers for watching! Was along one 😂 Matt 👍🏻