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Thread: thickness service in Sydney?
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11th November 2013, 09:15 PM #1
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thickness service in Sydney?
Hi
I have a burl slab approximately 1200 x 850 x 60mm that needs thicknessing. Are there any companies in Sydney that do this service for a fee?
This is a one-off request for a mate but I am keen to find out as I will be making some basic furniture soon.
Thanks, simon.
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12th November 2013, 08:07 AM #2
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Simon,
Has a similar situation when I made my work bench. Once the top was glued up it warped.
Tried finding a company in the southern part of Sydney that could flatten it but to no avail.
In the end since I was not going to get out the trusty No 7 and do it by hand I built a router sled and used a planer bit.
Took longer to build the router sled that it did to flatten the top. Since then I have used it about a dozen times and mates have also borrowed it.
So in answer to your question ... No ... I didn't find a company to do it.
BTW where abouts are you in Sydney as there may be a company out west that can do it as I only checked out places in the Peakhurst and surrounding areas.
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12th November 2013, 08:30 AM #3
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Thanks steve. This one is for a request for a mate living in the city. I have done this previously with coffee table size slabs and just used a belt sander starting with 40 grit paper and moving upwards. The other way is electric planer, and also creating a sliding rig for a router like you mentioned.
I thought the idea of a thicknessing service might be too good to be true.
Simon.
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12th November 2013, 08:18 PM #4
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Timber yards will be reluctant to touch it as they have no guarantee that it does not have foreign matter in the slab that will damage their machine.
CHRIS
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12th November 2013, 08:21 PM #5
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Thanks Chris that makes good sense
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12th November 2013, 08:59 PM #6
That is what I have found too. You can do very large boards and slabs with a router sled.
I have a Carbitool R3 5512 surface planer bit that I have used once (picked up last month a the Melbourne WW show) but for a fairly small job but I can see the potential for larger things. It has three replaceable inserts each with four faces, so you just turn the insert if you hit a nail, and carry on. They also have ones with four replaceable inserts. Inserts are cheap, but come in a pack of 10, which doesn't divide evenly into three or four. I cant figure out why they don't come in packs of 12.
see http://www.carbidetool.com.au/media/...lrouter(8).pdf and search for "5512" It will bring up the bit I have and the 4-fluted ones as well.
Cheers
DougI got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.
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12th November 2013, 09:51 PM #7
Sometime in the past 12mths a forum member on the northern beaches got old railway sleepers cut and dressed in Brookvale area from memory...
I'll do a forum search for sleepers and see what I find for you...cheers, crowie
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12th November 2013, 09:55 PM #8
This may help....
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f132/c...eepers-171925/
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12th November 2013, 10:02 PM #9
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