Joining Worktops

Nah, club hammers are easy to use. It's using a claw hammer on a chisel [1] without a hand guard that hurts.

Chip, chip. Ow ; Chip Chip ... etc

HTH

Paul.

The pro who did my worktop recently, using a large Makita router, used that method (I've never done it myself, or even seen it done, before) and he certainly made an excellent job of it.

David

According to a report I heard on local radio today, more people now get hurt by laminate floors than by chip pans.

So hopefully, at least that will mean laminate floors get banned soon...

david

Don't know where in the country you live but this guy has a good reputation and posts here occasionally.

In message , Lobster writes

Yehbut, there's a load of people (inc local fire brigade) in the North-East running round at this very minute trying to get traditional chip pans banned following a recent house fire & death case.

In message , Antony writes

Even with a 1/2" router its recommended to use several passes. I recently did some W/T joins and found 4 passes @ 10mm plus a final trimming pass did the job nicely. Tip of the day : When cutting the dog-bones make damn sure the router plunge is locked. I didn't notice mine was slipping down and came within

Good thing.

Yes, but it's near Scotland and they have deep fried pizzas and Mars bars there.

It's probably best to let nature run its course since they have a speech impediment anyway.

Definitely not, but sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

Many thanks for that, I'm sure I remember the odd post from kitchenman too, from my past forrays into uk.d-i-y. I will e-mail him and see if he's prepared to brave the M25 to get to me...

Part P is not really about safety, is it? It's to get more people to use tradespersons and not DIY so that Gordon gets more tax.

Mark

No that started on the 1st January 1973.

It isn't - you are supposed to do multiple passes even with a big router. About 10mm per pass is about the limit.