Machining prefinished salvaged wood.
Posted: Fri 27 May, 2022 9:01 am
I have various pieces of 3/4 inch think walnut from dismantling a side board, which was left in our flat by the previous tentant. It's really nice solid wood, but I have been tolds that the wood being previously finished with some sort of varnish is likely to blunt my planer blades and my router bits. I don't actually know if this is true, but if I am to glue this wood together to make display boxes and display cabinets, I will need to machine back the varnished sufaces to be able to create viable glue surfaces.
I don't want to use any visible fixings to construct these boxes and cabinets, so I am also thinking of using loose tenons as the method of contruction and maybe creating a template for routing the slots for the loose tenons. I am thinking of either using a Festool Domino Jointer, or alternatively just a normal router instead. I am still wondering if getting a basic Domino jointer might still be a more worthwile option as it could perhaps be used as an alternative to a Hoffman router by inserting hidden loose tenons inside mitred corner joints which are too deep to just join by underpinning.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this please,
Thanks,
Mark.
I don't want to use any visible fixings to construct these boxes and cabinets, so I am also thinking of using loose tenons as the method of contruction and maybe creating a template for routing the slots for the loose tenons. I am thinking of either using a Festool Domino Jointer, or alternatively just a normal router instead. I am still wondering if getting a basic Domino jointer might still be a more worthwile option as it could perhaps be used as an alternative to a Hoffman router by inserting hidden loose tenons inside mitred corner joints which are too deep to just join by underpinning.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this please,
Thanks,
Mark.