Curved & planed timber

kelbal

Hi Guys,
I'm thinking of making my own garden bench from timber. Most of it will use straightforward lengths of planed wood, but I'd possibly like fancier bits for the arm rests and maybe the top of the back rest. I do have a good enough range of tools to take the job on, but not for fine curved finishes. Is there anywhere you can buy pieces of wood like this on their own? I'm in North Dublin. Here's a picture of the kind of thing I'm talking about, the arm rests on this....

listermint

Do you have a jig saw and Sander? Because that is how those are constructed. Easily.

kelbal

listermint wrote: »

Do you have a jig saw and Sander? Because that is how those are constructed. Easily.

Yeah, have a jigsaw (a decent enough Bosch one), but find it hard to get perfectly square cuts due to the blade bending a bit while you angle the cut. Might have to be the way I go though. Thanks

doolox

Jigsaw blades might not be able to cut wood deeper than 40-50 mm but a reciprocating saw, bigger and with a longer blade than a jigsaw might do the job. I'd imagine it would be slow.

The proper tool for such work is a bandsaw but these are high powered specialist tools and may require specialist supervision training and advice before use.

I used to work with a guy who lost fingers operating a bandsaw while not giving it full attention and he was careless.........

dathi

kelbal wrote: »

Yeah, have a jigsaw (a decent enough Bosch one), but find it hard to get perfectly square cuts due to the blade bending a bit while you angle the cut. Might have to be the way I go though. Thanks

https://www.aldi.ie/workzone-350w-band-saw/p/074980116410500
might do it for you

cletus

Band saw would be the right job. I wouldn't use a recip saw, they are more for destruction than construction, definitely not a precision tool