Kitchen resto !

Using a router will enable you to do very neat curves on corners etc

 

Yes a router will give a cleaner finish. You could use a jigsaw to get close then a router to clean up to finish .

 

I would use the router to take off the required amount from the work tip so you can use it for the window sill.

 

3 - 0 for the router.

 

Are they straight forward to use?
Do you cut along a line the same as you do with a jigsaw

Ill be making my cupboards out of cheap ply so will i even need one

 

You need a guide to follow or they have a built in guide para

 

I really like this idea now but how would I get a neat invisible join between the worktop and the extension piece for the cill? Would I need to route out and use those joining brackets on the under side?

 

If you're making cupboards then you want to use a jig to guide the router. This can be as simple as a sheet of mdf just to use as a straight edge guide.

 

Possibly not if you use a manufactured edge against manufactured edge. The top is split into staves anyway, there are lots of join lines to look at. If it looks reasonable when you dry fit it, it will look good when clamped up. I would use 2 work top bolts for the join.

 

Best to use a guide of some sort, I do a lot of freehanded with mine but I'm very good .

Never try and take to much of in one go, cut in the right direction and practice on some scrap . different woods behave differently.

 

Another tip for you Mr Wombat. If you router your undermount sink out. I assume you will have or make a template, when your cutting it out don't go right through the work top, leave about 5mm of wood, then jigsaw out the middle piece well away from your nice routed edge. Then go back and finish the routing. You don't have this mass of wood either dropping away or snagging your bit just when you're almost finished.

 

Ah that's the thing, the rear edge of the top is a cut. Because the units had to stand away from wall a worktop wasn't deep enough, so I've used a breakfast bar which is deeper and trimmed it down. It's a tidy cut(routed) but it's a cut all the same, not sure how good a join I could achieve

 

Haha well it's the only thing big enough to sit it on!

I insisted the family only do little bounces while I operated!

 

Bloody good tip thanks, because I would of gone straight through, at least initially! Top man

 

This is how we fit into windows with normal work tops ...we buy breakfast bar and cut it around them . You can clean the back edge up with one pass set at full depth, just take a mil off against a straight edge. It should then be a straight as anyone could achieve.

Also you have a little room for error in the join. The glue fills a bit, as does the oil.

 

Right that sounds like a plan, will attempt that tomorrow aswell if time permits. You guys rock!

 

Sink day.
First I pulled off the window sill to find the inner skin of the cavity wall underneath was falling to bits so rebuilt that up to suitable level. It's no wonder I can never get a decent fixing to a wall in my house.


Then started on sink cutout, was very nervous about this!
Not sure how the professionals do it, but I ended up cutting out with the sink and worktop in situ as I found it easier. Got everything in position and clamped in place.
Then I cut out a small square with jigsaw within the measurements of the sink, to get me started and see what I'm doing.

Repeated this a couple of times, until I'm getting near to where the finished edge should be



The jig that came with sink wasn't going to give me the finished edge position I wanted, so instead of just clamping it down and routing round it I've had to get it in position for two sides/one corner, route out, then reposition it for opposite 2 sides/one corner, then route out that side.
Anyway, again I just kept taking off a bit at a time then reposition jig and repeat until I'm close to finished edge



So I've finished up with it almost done, I need to shave off about a mill all the way round to finish it off and tidy up the rear corners!


I'm pretty chuffed with myself, was bricking it for this. Took me a while to get into it but once you've got a feel for the machine it's good. I think I was moving the router too slow to begin with and was getting some burn marks on the wood so pushed it a bit quicker and that seemed to cute it. Beast of a machine

 

Well done lad...

I might buy a router ,thinking I need to learn how to do woodwork better ,might even grow to like it.....

 

also allows holes not needed