Glenn de Souza
10-20-2015, 3:30 PM
Hi,
I'm thinking about building a variation on this table, and I'm looking for advice on how to join, and more importantly, how to glue up the table base structure. I was thinking about dominos or multiple dowels as the method of joinery for the angled brace members to the main column and feet, but it raises the question of how to assemble perpendicular joints simultaneously, and also how to clamp the joints once assembled.
I thought about gluing on a sacrificial clamping block to each angled member and sawing/planing it off after glue up?
Maybe join the upper and lower braces in two separate glue-ups?
For assembly purposes, maybe only one side of each brace can be assembled and glued at a time? For example, join the brace to the column first, and to the foot in phase 2.
(I call them braces because they remind me of truss braces).
Thanks for any advice,
323706
I'm thinking about building a variation on this table, and I'm looking for advice on how to join, and more importantly, how to glue up the table base structure. I was thinking about dominos or multiple dowels as the method of joinery for the angled brace members to the main column and feet, but it raises the question of how to assemble perpendicular joints simultaneously, and also how to clamp the joints once assembled.
I thought about gluing on a sacrificial clamping block to each angled member and sawing/planing it off after glue up?
Maybe join the upper and lower braces in two separate glue-ups?
For assembly purposes, maybe only one side of each brace can be assembled and glued at a time? For example, join the brace to the column first, and to the foot in phase 2.
(I call them braces because they remind me of truss braces).
Thanks for any advice,
323706