I am interested in building reproduction wooden storms for my 1920’s Central NY colonial. I am going to buy a table saw (Grizzly) and a router (with appropriate bits). Any thing you could tell me to help me along?
Chuck
I am interested in building reproduction wooden storms for my 1920’s Central NY colonial. I am going to buy a table saw (Grizzly) and a router (with appropriate bits). Any thing you could tell me to help me along?
Chuck
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make sure the router is a Bosch and CMT is the last word in bits...
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A good, sharp handplane or a power planer is almost a must for fitting storm windows, imho. I don't know what your trying to reproduce, but I usually make my storm windows simple, just a table saw job. pegged saddle joints at the corner, a square window stop, and a beveled strip to nail in to hold the pane. But don't let me keep you from buying some new tools.
zak
I was planning on making them like the originals - mortise and tenon. I was going to use the table saw to cut the tenons and the router to cut the mortises. As for the planer/jointer, I was going to buy that or use my father-in-laws.
Chuck
Edited 3/31/2006 9:44 am ET by Charles Wilson
I'd get a dedicated mortising machine it's 100 times easier, more acurate and saves a ton of time. any good table saw will do the job, make sure that a good tenoning jig fits on it. Personally I use a radial arm saw for tennons - it's about the only thing I do with it. Buy as many horses as you can affort on the router and a good 3" planer is ideal. I can see lots of tools I could purchase on this thread. LOL
What kind of table saw do you use and how do you like it?
Which saw are you buying? Grizzley has a number of tablesaws.
More important than the saw is the wood species used to make the frames. No poplar, aspen, white pine etc. Recycled heart pine and cypress are recommended on one website. I would also consider mahogany.
Another recommended making the window such that there are 2 panes, with one removable so that a screen can be put in it's place without having to remove the entire storm window.
Edited 4/30/2006 9:08 am ET by MarkH
Well, I have a 1957 delta unisaw that I got at an estate sale. Really, it seems like there are a lot of great saws out there now- cabinet saws by grizzly, general, or general international are all good deals, and the hybrid saws by jet, dewalt, and delta are also supposed to be good.
As much as I love my saw, it has the original fence, which is not that great anymore- it tends to flex at the back.
It's important to make a good, solid tenoning jig to make joints on a tablesaw- if you've got a 4' long piece of wood upright, you need something solid to guide it accurately. There are books devoted to table saw jigs that do a much better job explaining than I could- Tablesaw Magic is one.zak
"so it goes"