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#1 Woodwork terminology.

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A question for those who are clever with woodwork.

I would like to know the proper name for a particular piece of shaped wood. Essentially it's square section, but with grooves along two adjacent sides where a thin panel could be slotted in. Forming a corner post for a box like object.

Once I know the proper name I can search for some.
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#2 Re: Woodwork terminology.

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Not at all sure there's a name for that, other than "makeityourself"...

Should be able to do that easily with a table saw (if you have one...), or get a mate to do it for you...
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Yes not a typical item. The groove is known generally as rebate, or rabbet in the USA. If the rebate was short, like for the rails of a table it would be the mortise part of the mortise and the tenon joint.

Depending on what one's making there are different ways of making the rebate - a table saw is pretty handy especially with a dado stack, or a router, or even old fashioned hammer and chisel.

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I was thinking of an amp case, using the posts as corners, and the rebates to slide in acrylic panels front and side, and aluminium at the back.

Some years ago I got a van load of firewood when a factory closed down, they may have made window frames, and a lot of it was as I described.

I seem to remember someone on her (Max ?) used something similar but in aluminium.
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Try wood ‘channeling’, or glue the perspex into ‘L’ shaped moulding.
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Hi Phil,

I may have some in oak, it will be around 22mm square and around 700mm length wise. Can’t remember the rebate size but it will probably be around 5mm. I will check in the morning for you.
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Just use a router with a 1/4 inch bit in it to make the rebate and use 6mm perspex to slot into the rebate if you are wanting perspex sides and wooden corner blocks
If for example you want it to be 50mm tall, your corner block blank should be about 400mm long so you can clamp it down to a benck or workmate, then use the router with its fence adjusted to position the rebate where you want it on the side you are machining, cut the rebates in the 2 sides then cut the block into 4 pieces for the corners. The 400mm should give you plenty for the clamps to grab and plenty of material to account for the saw kerf and total length of each piece you need
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vinylspinner wrote: Sun Jun 14, 2020 7:51 pm Hi Phil,

I may have some in oak, it will be around 22mm square and around 700mm length wise. Can’t remember the rebate size but it will probably be around 5mm. I will check in the morning for you.
Nigel, did you manage to look for this ?
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