Hello chippies I am doing a job for someone and i need to joint two sheets of MDF together i was thinking of a maitre with a grove cut down and a grove on the other board and a length of timber say 10mm wide to hold the miter in place as i don't want to screw it is there another way to join boards
mitre is the wrong joint for boards. what is the job for playing secret squirrel wont get you the answer you want
Tim The question is still unclear , if your struggling come again , help is here if required. Cheers !
Ok i am making a heater cover and i am not sure which joint to use at the corners as i dont want to screw it
Hi Blokes. I ain't a chippie,so shoot me down in flames if you want, but as I understand the problem, Tim wants to join 2 MDF boards at 90 degrees & is asking about rebating each board & then beefing up the joint with 10mm square strip.....sounds OK to me... Regards, Malkie
Ok Tim Really it's down to what your using and what tools you have and the designs are wide and varied. I'm sure some one here can pass you a patented plan and you could take it from there. To join say 6 or 8 mm pegboard mdf would not suffice . If you can router you could house the front in to a frame and use sold ends and top with a shaped plinth. To butt two 10mm boards without fixings is not on. Go look at a ready made job and start again. Good luck . I'm sure a plan will be with you from here soon. Cheers !
....Tim, I think that you would be better off with a 20 or 25 mm strip if you want to glue &/or pin it..Malkie...
butt joints in MDF, biscuits corner joints in MDF, biscuits tee joints in MDF, biscuits a cant make it any plainer, USE BISCUITS and stop listening to the drivelling numbskulls
Hi DD. Maybe Tim hasn't got a biscuit jointer...Hardly worth buying for one job. If he rebates the edges, he can use a router or even a circular saw at a push. I'm sure that your's is the correct way, but sometimes us amatuers have to compromise (bodge ?)....
Why not just screw it together and fill the screw holes.What is all this rubbish about biscuits.The biscuits wont hold the joint together until the glue is set If you wanted to be fussy the corners should be mitred glued and pinned
Personally, I would butt it, glue it, and fix it inside with stretcher plates(90°)for the corners, IF the design allowed for the brackets to be hidden. Mr. HandyAndy - really
dont some of you ever listen biscuits are for lining up joints never mitre structural joints (in any medium, timber, MDF, MFC) they have no strength and you cant reliably cut a long mitre dont pin MDF joints it splits the MDF screws in MDF always predrill use 3.5mm dia screws (not 4.0) gluing joints is a given, didnt think it had to be said
Now Deedsy There's more than one way to skin a cat so put the cork on the bottle and relax. It is Sunday you know. Cheers !
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