Wooden Work Deck

by BevCanTech in Workshop > Woodworking

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Wooden Work Deck

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Having used cardboard to protect my desk and bench while working on instructable projects for the last few months, I thought making a small work deck from plywood was an idea overdue.
As I don't have a large selection of woodworking tools, I improvised a little by using a mitre saw to cut corners and a barstard file to smooth them.

Corner Up

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Using a piece of 8mm, by 300mm by 400mm plywood which I had on hand. I marked out some rounded corners.

Cutting the Corners Straight

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As I only have a mitre saw, I used this to cut the corners with a number of radius cuts.

Smooth

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The corners were them smoothed with a bastard file.

Cutting Edge

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Using a 40mm by 8mm board, which I had on hand, an edge was made by cutting two 220mm lengths.

Edging

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The two lengths were glued on top of each other with pva glue to make a 16mm thick board of 220mm length.
This was then glued onto the plywood to make an edge. I had been thinking of screwing it on but just the glue worked fine.