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Thread: Scribed Joints in Skirt
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4th May 2006, 03:05 PM #16
The only drawback as i see it in using the router is that with the coping saw it is so easy to undercut the scribe for truely tight and neat finish. Other than the difficulty in manouvering the timber rather than the tool
if it works for you use it
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4th May 2006, 03:55 PM #17
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I have a house full of skirts that I am going to have to do soon - but I am having some problems visualising how to scribe a joint. Like the Pope said, ssems liek it would be simple enough for a hands on demo, but I'm buggered if I can get my head around how it works reading about it! Anyone got some step by step pics using the coping saw method?
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4th May 2006, 04:20 PM #18
Originally Posted by Ben (TM)
Cheers
Michael
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4th May 2006, 07:58 PM #19
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As mic-d said,and lay the skirt down on your saw stool with the back on to the stool.Then look down on to the 45 you have cut.
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4th May 2006, 08:53 PM #20
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I have just looked at this thread for the first time so thats why I didn't stick my bib in earlier.
Using a router can work really well. Believe me I do this a lot. I do fix outs for a living.
Talking about 65 or 90 mm colonial profile skirt here.
The method Pope described in his first post.
Working left to right
Cutting the mitre with the skirt standing up against the fence upside down
Turning the saw back to just over 90 degrees and cutting down to the beginning of the profile.
Now comes the router bit.
I have a small router with a small straight bit mounted upside down on the drop saw bench so it is only inches away from where the cut just happened
Just flip the skirt on its back. turn the router on and go around the colonial profile.
A bit of practice and it all happens in about ten seconds.
People who say this won't work, well I'm afraid they are wrong.
I often have carpenters from a job next door or nearby who wander in to say G'day and are very interested when they see how I do it.
I must do literaly thousands of these false mitres in a year. And I have been doing fixing for more years than I want to remember
Now I am not saying this will suit every one, but I am saying it can be made to work very well.
Greolt
EDIT: just trying to make it a bit clearer
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4th May 2006, 09:13 PM #21
How big is the router bit Gre, 6mm or smaller still?
Cheers...............Sean, your lowly scribe
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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5th May 2006, 10:16 AM #22
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I have used smaller but now use 6mm.
It depends on the profile in the skirt and whether you can get into the "corners"
6 mm works with profile of the skirt that we have been using
Do one and try it for fit up.
The other thing to mention with doing this is that the skirt that you fit up to
(the peice already there) must be standing up straight, if you know what I mean.
Or you won't get a nice tight fit.
Greolt
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5th May 2006, 12:22 PM #23
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After reading this, I am going to have to look at giving this a go. I have just laid all my skirting in a room at home and I mitred the joints and the used no more gaps to fill in any gaps that shouldn't have been there. I will give this method a go for next time.
Dave,
hug the tree before you start the chainsaw.
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5th May 2006, 10:16 PM #24
Thanks Gre...........cheers............Sean
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13th May 2006, 03:19 PM #25
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Originally Posted by Outsider
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