Hello everyone,
I am going to build a guest house with a frame made of glulam pillars and veneer beams. I was planning to order the processed pillars from Moelven, with cutouts for beams and glass cassettes CNC-milled at the factory. However, it turns out that the delivery time is unreasonably long, so I'm leaning towards making the cutouts in the beams myself.
Cutouts need to be made in 160x160 mm pillars that are about 3.5 meters long (meaning heavy and cumbersome). The cutouts should be 300 mm high and 45 mm deep.
Which method would best meet the following requirements?
- High precision. I want, of course, a tight and exact fit between the pillars and beams.
- Tools. I don't have access to a carpentry workshop and need to do the job with hand tools/miter/band saws or something reasonably portable.
- Efficient. There are a total of about 60 cutouts to be made, and I don't want to spend the entire summer doing this, so how can the job be done efficiently with the help of jigs etc.?
What do you think? Saw, rout, or something else?
I am going to build a guest house with a frame made of glulam pillars and veneer beams. I was planning to order the processed pillars from Moelven, with cutouts for beams and glass cassettes CNC-milled at the factory. However, it turns out that the delivery time is unreasonably long, so I'm leaning towards making the cutouts in the beams myself.
Cutouts need to be made in 160x160 mm pillars that are about 3.5 meters long (meaning heavy and cumbersome). The cutouts should be 300 mm high and 45 mm deep.
Which method would best meet the following requirements?
- High precision. I want, of course, a tight and exact fit between the pillars and beams.
- Tools. I don't have access to a carpentry workshop and need to do the job with hand tools/miter/band saws or something reasonably portable.
- Efficient. There are a total of about 60 cutouts to be made, and I don't want to spend the entire summer doing this, so how can the job be done efficiently with the help of jigs etc.?
What do you think? Saw, rout, or something else?
What is the third measurement? The width of the column, so 300*45*160? In that case, I would saw (backsaw, circular hand saw). If it's a more intricate notch, I would go at it with a hand router. In both cases, make it a bit tight, and finish the surface with a chisel until it fits the way you want.
Yes, exactly, 300x45x160. So if I'm going to saw, the cut needs to be 160 deep, or 80 if I saw from both sides. How do you think I can do that with a circular saw? They hardly handle such depths, do they?Karrock said:
Yes, that would work, but it's quite tedious when there are many cutouts to be made.Z z_bumbi said:
What do you think about a chain saw, like this one? It should be quite easy to drill a hole and then go.
https://www.toolab.se/festool-svard...uRvJa9mQ73yJwz3pcvbnSJQfnPkwPNWAaAhAwEALw_wcB
Stylish. Are you expecting to use it for more things? Otherwise, you can get a nice Husqvarna battery chainsaw for half the money. It doesn't matter much what you use to cut away the material, if you want a nice fit you'll need to finish with a chisel or possibly carefully with a router.
No, it will probably become a shelf warmer, but you can rent it for a few hundred https://www.hyreshuset.se/produkt/svardsag
We'll see how good it turns out and route as needed.
Is it about notching the pillar for beams that need to fit into cutouts?
If so, I did it with a circular saw on my pillars for the sunroom.
Set the depth on the circular saw and cut lots of strips. I tested the depth on a test piece to make sure it was the right depth.
These strips are knocked out with a hammer and then smoothed out with a chisel, and finally, the surface is sanded to make it even.
Here is a video showing how to do it.
I made many more strips because I'm not as skilled with the chisel.
I didn't have a jig but placed a block on the pillar with a clamp as support for the circular saw so I cut straight and not too far into the pillar.
If so, I did it with a circular saw on my pillars for the sunroom.
Set the depth on the circular saw and cut lots of strips. I tested the depth on a test piece to make sure it was the right depth.
These strips are knocked out with a hammer and then smoothed out with a chisel, and finally, the surface is sanded to make it even.
Here is a video showing how to do it.
I made many more strips because I'm not as skilled with the chisel.
I didn't have a jig but placed a block on the pillar with a clamp as support for the circular saw so I cut straight and not too far into the pillar.