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Whereabouts are you these days? Our tandem sadly doesn't get used anymore and you welcome to borrow it if you like. The sizing would be perfect for you two (We're 5'10 and 5'3).

Really ought to sell it but sentimental value is too much for my wife to let me.

Template done. I made life harder by using 9mm mdf (it's the thinnest I had lying around). However It's solid enough I don't think I'll bother with transferring it to a single piece template.
A few little sliver gaps I can slide a sheet of paper through, but life is too short to spend any longer on it, and I can always hit the final product with a big hammer to get it tighter right? Tonight I rout.

It is. Just flies through material. They're double sided; one side is viscous, and the other ruthless.

Discovered that myself, my shinto rasp is just slicing through these template strips, and then im using my block plane for finishing touches. Working out nicely.

https://road.cc/content/tech-news/249788-look-launch-all-new-795-blade-rs

New look bike. Actually looks nice for once.

Got any photos?

I did literally just receive a new jack plane, but I'm woefully unpracticed with using a plane properly. Will give it a try on some waste edges and see how I get on.

I did not think about expansion. What would you expect to happen here, the worktop expand into the alcove? Or shrinkage? If I get a perfect fit now, can you comment on how much of a gap I might expect with time?

Usually with things like this I care about it being perfect as I'm doing it and right at the beginning, but then with time and usage I stop caring so assuming I won't get anything significant I think I could live with some slivers later.

In terms of fastening it to the cabinet, I was just going to drive some screws from through the cabinet top into the underside of the countertop. Is wood warpage something I should worry about with this? Perhaps I should oversize the clearance holes in the cabinet to allow for a bit of movement?

Think I'll do it in two stages as the overhang on the right complicates things. I'll do it with MDF strips initially as I have a massive pile of the stuff that is not being useful, then transfer it to hardboard so I have it as a single template. I'll then transfer that to the proper worktop. I've realised that my very old router will probably struggle with 32mm oak, and initial search for flush trim router bits suggests they typically have 25.4mm depth, so I think I'll have to go for the jigsaw / belt sander combo and see what happens.

Not really a fan of the trim look tbh. Am keen on getting it tight tight tight.

@TW Good idea I need to get a sheet of hardboard for the backs anyway, will give that a try.

Bin collection day just went by and I chucked all my cardboard out :/ I suppose the solution would be to head over to screwfix and buy a suitably large power tool for it's box.

I need to fit a cabinet top into this alcove. All the walls are bowed outwards by enough that straight cutting the worktops would leave ugly gaps. Can anyone suggest how I should go about doing this? Was thinking of starting with some strips of mdf, one for each side, and sand away at them until the they match the profile of the walls nicely, then glue / screw them together to make a complete template. Then attach it to my worktop and use a flush trim router. Alternatively perhaps jigsaw close to the template edge and then belt sander the rest. It's a 32mm solid oak workpiece so want to avoid as much physical hardship as possible.

:( Very sorry to hear this. Hope you're okay.

Be chilling yo

Ta!

Got them on ebay for not too much. Out of the box they were a bit flimsy though, they twisted under reasonable load, so I modded them but cutting some wood to size so they fitted tightly down the length. They're much stiffer now and work great.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162513225724

Soon! I'm going against the grain and putting the skirting in after I have finished with the fixed units so I don't have to bother cutting out notches to fit around it. Just some cabinets to build for the alcoves and then I'll put it in.

Speaking of the cabinets, I had some fun with some clamps and glue.

Just finished this little project. MDF body, oak veneered mdf top with oak lipping to hide the edges. Wish I'd done it as 3 panels rather than 2, but I'm happy with it. Problem is now my wife wants me to kit out the whole house with em.

You'll have to pay the additional home extra stamp duty too, 3%. But you can get that back post sale of your other home, provided it happens within 3 years of your purchase.

So we've had our cats now for 3 months, and have diligently keept them indoors with the plan being to start letting them out when kitten is 6 months old. She's now 5 months. However mum cat has been getting increasingly beggy with wanting to go outside so we caved and let her out over the weekend. Then kitten starting crying because she's never been without her mum so we caved and let her out too.

So much fun seeing how happy they were. Mum enjoying frolicking in the grass very much. Kitten chased all the insects. I think she may have learnt want wasps do when you piss them off.

Anyways, back to keeping them inside for another month. So excited to let them out proper.
(Didn't get a picture of baby, too busy fearing for her to get any shots)

I just call it a day when my cadence drops.

Am I the only one that bothers with gears using ERG mode? I've found in really small gears ERG is more reactive, but road feel is worse / feels like riding through mud. Bigger gears and the overall inertia of the system feels a lot more like riding flat, less effort through the deadspots, but the ERG mode seems to react more slowly.

I've settled for small ring middle of the cassette as the best balance, but I'll go up or down a couple of gears depending on how I'm feeling and what I want out of the session.

In writing this I've realised i haven't touched my turbo in 8 months. Happy days.

For reference, Elite Direto. Other turbos may behave completely different.

Here's one of our little one licking her paw like it's ice cream

Seem to have lost my rear mudguard. Anyone have a black one surplus to their requirements? Pro version (with the rubber band strap mounts) in regular size.

Ta

What does that do, filter before entry to vacuum? Will that make the suction better? I think I need more suction to pull dust through the tools better rather than it shooting off

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