Zuye Zheng
12-21-2015, 2:12 PM
Latest project, not the biggest, but probably the most intricate I've done. Decided to draw from my roots and base much of the design the joinery aspects off of Ming era furniture, mainly the mitered mortise and tenoned frame and panel top and the carcass directly mortised into the frame. Also first time doing half blind dovetails.
Lots of small issues, but the biggest is the frame and panel top where I rabbeted too much slack worrying about wood movement so there is a decent sized gap. Since the panel was so thin I could've probably gotten away with a much tighter tolerance.
Lots of chisel work (I think I finally started liking chopping mortises) and coincidentally got intrigued by Japanese chisels while building it that I went kinda crazy on Stu's site with the first couple hopefully arriving today.
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Lots of small issues, but the biggest is the frame and panel top where I rabbeted too much slack worrying about wood movement so there is a decent sized gap. Since the panel was so thin I could've probably gotten away with a much tighter tolerance.
Lots of chisel work (I think I finally started liking chopping mortises) and coincidentally got intrigued by Japanese chisels while building it that I went kinda crazy on Stu's site with the first couple hopefully arriving today.
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