Hi,
What a splendid result David and I could follow the instructions easily whilst viewing the pictures. The new back panel looks authentic and once blown over with paint no one would guess it was home made. A top class job but then you never do skimp on quality which is a credit to you.
Oil tempered hardboard is very tough material and destroys tooling rapidly; I've seen sparks produced whilst cutting this material on my metal cutting bandsaw and it wreaks havoc on HSS tooling like drill bits. How did the router cutter stand up to it; I assume you used a carbide tipped cutter and these are designed for this type of material. The back will last forever and it's a pleasure to see your technique in producing this back panel.
Did you bore the "lateral" panel holes with the panels stacked one on the other and perhaps located and secured with masking tape? This is such a simple but effective way of indexing and I bet it caused you a few headaches until you sorted out how to make it work; indexing is hard enough to do accurately but to lock the work-piece in this manner is a first class bit of thinking and thank's for sharing it.
For those who have never attempted making a new back panel I'm sure David will agree that they are more difficult than they appear as all the holes and spacings etc take a lot of working out and it only takes one slip to render the panel useless as any mistake draws the eye directly towards it.
The jig was well worth making David and might come in handy in future to make similar back panels with.
A very interesting thread.
Kind regards, Col.
What a splendid result David and I could follow the instructions easily whilst viewing the pictures. The new back panel looks authentic and once blown over with paint no one would guess it was home made. A top class job but then you never do skimp on quality which is a credit to you.
Oil tempered hardboard is very tough material and destroys tooling rapidly; I've seen sparks produced whilst cutting this material on my metal cutting bandsaw and it wreaks havoc on HSS tooling like drill bits. How did the router cutter stand up to it; I assume you used a carbide tipped cutter and these are designed for this type of material. The back will last forever and it's a pleasure to see your technique in producing this back panel.
Did you bore the "lateral" panel holes with the panels stacked one on the other and perhaps located and secured with masking tape? This is such a simple but effective way of indexing and I bet it caused you a few headaches until you sorted out how to make it work; indexing is hard enough to do accurately but to lock the work-piece in this manner is a first class bit of thinking and thank's for sharing it.
For those who have never attempted making a new back panel I'm sure David will agree that they are more difficult than they appear as all the holes and spacings etc take a lot of working out and it only takes one slip to render the panel useless as any mistake draws the eye directly towards it.
The jig was well worth making David and might come in handy in future to make similar back panels with.
A very interesting thread.
Kind regards, Col.
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