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This is not entirely a handtool project but at 160 lf I may be crazy but I'm not insane. The inside radius of the gutter is 2" and the largest cutter anyone would make is 1 1/4". I hogged out 1" on the shaper then a series of rabbets using a electric router but the remaining was done with a #18 round. It still took 2 days to do... Then came the face profile. I cut a wedge off with the tablesaw but the rest was done by hand.
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Appears that I can only load 2 pics
Last edited by Keith Mathewson; 09-25-2015 at 10:56 PM.
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Keith, you should be able to load up to 8 pics per post.Originally Posted by Keith Mathewson
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The software only allows two to be selected at a time. After they are uploaded you can select two more to upload. Repeat four times for a total of eight.
Nice looking gutter by the way. Hope to see when you finish the outside.
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Last edited by Jim Koepke; 09-26-2015 at 1:31 AM.
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Thanks Jim, I should've pointed that out.
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Nicely done...love the creative solution. Curious to hear more on the project. Where is it going, what wood are you using, how will you finish it?
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Very nicely done Keith.
Looking forward as well.
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Joe
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+1. I don't think I've seen wooden gutter used on a "modern" home, but yours look great and I'd also like to see/read/hear more.
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I just now noticed the profile drawn for the front. It's nice. I'm guessing it will go on a shed or play house, please show us the completeand installed project.
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Some might be inclined to call it a shed and at the moment for me it is a bit of a playhouse, but it is a rental house I have that I'm remodeling. It's a small house that was built in 1941. The reason for the gutters is two fold. Nearly every house has the same gutters which I don't want to use and it has a hip roof which meets the siding. I wanted to give some projection and try to tie the new windows in with the facia to create an entablature. It isn't going to be quite what I would have hoped for design wise but I'm dealing with what I have to work with.
Last edited by Keith Mathewson; 09-26-2015 at 3:07 PM.
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There will be a moulding between the upper facia and the lower facia. Here are some pics of the window crown and the new garage doors.
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Nice work!
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I dare say it will stand out and become a local favorite. A treatment more whimsical than based on formal precedents is exactly what it needs .
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Beautiful work! I hope your renters appreciate it and take good care of it.
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Keith, if you are not using cypress, I recommend using a very heavy primer, and then a polymerized paint for the water bearing surfaces of those nicely made gutters.
Maurice
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