Carpentry help please...

merlin

merlin

merlin

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Hi,

I need to hang a pair of French doors - I want to rebate them so they close totally flush but I don't have a router or a circular saw to cut the rebates.

I'll buy whichever will do the job the easiest.

Any budding ocuk carpenters offer some advice on whether a router or circ saw would be best?

Ty.
 
If you're not skilled then both are potentially lethal bits of kit - be careful!

You may well find a local carpentry place is happy to do the single cut for a nominal fee rather than buying your own kit... Just a thought :)
 
Thanks guys, I'll go for a circular saw and then I can find other uses for it - if I buy a router it'll likely never get used ever again also the saw guide will help me whereas I'm guessing I'm on my own with the router and might stray without a guide!

I'm comfortable with woodworking machinery but agreed both nasty pieces of kit in sloppy hands!
 
Hand held or table saw?

I wouldn't use either tbh, and if I hadn't used any before, I'd get it does as a favour, you don't want to use cheap tools and end up splitting the wood and having to buy new doors.
 
Router, you'll get a cleaner cut. I can imagine you having fun making the 2nd cut along the edge of the door with the circular saw if your not used to using power tools.

Awaits the spec me a robotic hand post by OP. :D
 
merlin said:
Thanks guys, I'll go for a circular saw and then I can find other uses for it - if I buy a router it'll likely never get used ever again also the saw guide will help me whereas I'm guessing I'm on my own with the router and might stray without a guide!

I'm comfortable with woodworking machinery but agreed both nasty pieces of kit in sloppy hands!
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For what it's worth you don't sound overly familiar with the tools and I don't mean that as any sort of criticism, it's just an observation. A router will come with a fence (guide) and will leave a better finish than a circular saw.

Rather than see you ruin a good pair of doors it might be worth just hanging them and not worrying about a rebate or if your hearts set on a rebate then leave them in where somebody can throw them through a spindle or set on a cnc.

All the best if you go ahead with it yourself and as somebody else has pointed out be careful if you haven't used either of those tools before as they can be extremely dangerous.
 
The problem with getting the doors to a joinery is transport - they won't go on either of our cars, certainly this would have been the first port of call.

I'm comfortable using power machinery, but I've only used a router once before!

Hmm, wonder if I can find Volvo taxi. :D
 
Bought router and circ saw - French doors are up and look bang on, all fingers intact, used the router to rebate the doors and circ saw to lop the door height down to the frame.

Whole lot took me 7 hours :o I don't think I should give up the day job, 7 hours to hang two doors is borderline homosexual tbh. :(
 
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