Simple wooden screen
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Dear All,
I saw this simple wooden screen while visiting Kew Gardens. It had been placed in front of a large window and provided a very nice diffuse light. A number of water colours of plants and flowers were also hung from the screen.
Sometimes, simple is best.
Regards,
Bob
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Thanks for sharing.
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I like doing screens like that only I us a simple square cut notch in the uprights.
http://woodsshop.com/bbrbqrgb.htmI wonder how they cut those notches with that little shoulder left square at the top? Do any of you woodworkers have a guess? A bevel cut with the radial arm would get the top angle but how to cut that remaining square part?
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Dear Joe,
I might have remembered the design wrongly, and so it is quite possible that the shoulder is not there. It is over a week ago that I saw the screen. You could, of course, water jet cut the recesses, but that might not be economical.
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Regards,
Bob -
hey Bob, have you ever done (or had done) any wood cutting with a water jet? If so I have some questions about cutting 1.5" thick, clear western red cedar.
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Dear Joe,
I have no experience of water jet cutting wood, but I have cut 1" aluminium plate and so I think that 1.5" of wood should not present a problem. There are some systems that will cut through 2 to 3"of steel. I have used laser cutting to cut 10 mm MDF, but the edges char (not surprisingly). For that application it didn't matter, and the price was right.
I have mostly used the technique for cutting shapes out of 1.5 mm stainless steel sheet. I used AutoCAD to array the shapes within a 1 m by 2 m rectangular boundary (sheet stock size), and then emailed the file to the the water-jet company to download into their control computer. It worked very well, it was very accurate and very economical on materials. If you look at Fig 2 on http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/main/facilities/2point2_metre_facility/cool_6.html you will see some close-off panels on the floor. Those panels were shaped using water jet cutting, as was the bespoke cable tray.
Regards,
Bob -
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